THE PACK OF HIGH LANDERS

THE PACK OF HIGH LANDERS

Today we, Abbey,Frances,Camille,Gerard,and Javita went to Triund again, this time to sleep in a cave.So we left early and got a taxi to the first chai shop and had a chai (and a Desire Chocolate bar) then continued up to heaven. We walked and talked and found our way to the second chai shop. There we met a pack of Dogs, that after we had a little drink, followed us. We called one Big Mumma and one Big Boss, another Goofy and another Cheeky. We walked on with them. They waited for us, so we waited for them.

It was again beautiful, except the Rhododendron's weren't flowering and there had been lots of fires, but still green and the dogs won our hearts. Why travel up to the mountains? We stopped at the next chai shop and had a drink we looked at some caves and moved on. The last part was hard and rough but our pack made it. When we got to the top the dogs spilt up and ran around happy to be at the top. We ate lunch and looked at some more caves. One was so deep into the cave that mum was too scared of the tight space. One was to open and the other one was to small. So we went to look at the other side of the saddle where there was one other cave. We found it and it was juuustttt right, so we set up camp.

By then it was dinner time so we had a nice dinner at the chai shop before we made our way back, lit our fire for smores. Smores are marshmallows plain bickies and melted chocolate yum yum. We talked until it was time to go to sleep. I was sleeping on a ledge and all the rest of our pack,not including the dogs - they were somewhere, slept on the ground.

In the morning mum, dad and our dogs went somewhere to watch the sun rise over Dharamsala.... any way, it was apparently beautiful. I woke up and went to the chai shop with Javita, soon followed by Frances. We had a chai. Mum and dad soon came and we looked at the chai shop owners pictures in winter (he lives up there all year round in his tent shop). We played around had a pancake and the adults talked while the children played. 

 

We said good bye to the dogs and left for home. We walked down and down until we saw some donkey's carrying packs up the mountain. We gave way to them but Frances and Javita were coming around a hairpin bend and didn't notice them so the donkey's just walked into them. Javita fell down a little off the edge, but Frances went right off the edge saved by clinging onto a prickle bush. If she had fallen the whole way a monk would of caught her on the trail ten metres below!!!

We went on and on down and down to the chai shop. Javita ate lunch but I just had a apple juice and chips. We still headed down ,stopping at the chai shops, looking at the goats. When we got down to McLeod we said good bye to Javita and got some late lunch. Then we had a SHOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! which we never get because there's no water =-< any way ...

RMS

ABBEY