Although three of us were sadly unable to go on our trek last week, the six of us remaining had a great adventure. We had a couple struggles, but were all able to keep high spirits and push threw them. The high altitude helped bring a few laughs too!
Every morning during our trek we would get into a circle and the captains of the day would warm us up. After we did our routine warm-ups we would do our routine dance moves that each of us had taken part in making. Ben introduced to us “the squirrel”, and Lotte “grandpa move”, Phoebe’s dance was “the roll”, Luke’s “The pointers”, Lydia did the “Val”, I did “the Indian”, Becca taught us the “Kelsey”, and Noha’s…well Noha’s dance was very unique, we topped it off with Jess’s “Wingle move” and we were ready to go. I’m sure we brought entertainment to our awesome trekking crew everyday with our crazy random dances.
We were served the most delicious meals three times a day by the cook crew, and were even brought hot tea or tang when we were getting close to camp each day by Mote! The warm drinks were much appreciated in the cold weather. And we can’t forget the pack horses who carried all of our things everyday for us. One of the horses was always nibbling on toilet paper or whatever he could and he was named Munchers by our Carpe group. We also named the some of the other horses Showgun, Cappuccino, and Thumpers.
On the last day of our trek we finished it in silence then we were happily reunited with our other group members. Now we are enjoying a few much needed relaxing days in Darjeeling, before we go on to Rishikesh!
Love, Maddi 🙂
