Treking Part II

The second day of our trek was the worst because we had to climb up thousands of stairs, GRRRR.  Worst of all my grandmother needed the horse almost all day so I had to walk it all, GRRRR.

On the third day of our trek we had a really fun morning.  We got up in the dark at about 4:45 to climb up Poon Hill.  We climbed in the dark using our head lamps, and it was really cold!  Even though it was pretty overcast we still saw some views of the high Himalayan mountains, such as Annapurna and Machupuchre (fish tail). But this was another hard day of trekking with lots of steps, both up and down, and again I didn't get to ride the horse.

Later that day we hiked through an enchanted forest through a beautiful river gorge.  At our guest house that night I met a friend (Kabita) and played soccer with her, but she also had to do lots of work around the guest house.

On the morning of the fourth day I again played soccer with Kabita.  It was very fun playing soccer with with her and before we left I gave Kabita 3 silly bands.  Today was an easy day, and I was very happy to have an easy day, after the two hard days.  The people on the trail throughout the trek were very surprised to see a six year old girl trekking.

That night I met another friend (Pramisha) who helped me with my homework by playing math games and reading with me.  We then played lots of games like Uno.  Before we left I let her pick 5 silly bands.

meditating at our guest house on the 5th morning of our trek

On the fifth day of our trek we had to climb down, down, down, to the river.  It wasn't too hard, but again I didn't get to ride much.  The horse doesn't like steep downhill so no one was able to ride, and when she could my grandmother rode.  I did get a short ride when my grandmother sent the horse back for me.  Yeah!

At our guest house there were some kids shooting off fireworks.  I went to watch and made some friends.  Some of the kids were really stupid and got so close to the fireworks, but luckily didn't get hurt.

I am glad that this was the last day of the trek! I was very sad to have to say goodbye to our horse Dorje.

The next morning I got a great surprise, Dorje was back!  He had rescued a poor woman with a bad foot  coming down. and so Dorje came back to see us!  Today was Amala's birthday so we sang happy birthday to her.  On the walk back to the bus I met a dog who started following us, I named him cookie, and he followed us all the way to the bus stop! yeah! that was very fun! that was the best surprise

Back in Pokhara I ordered an ice cream at the restaurant, and it was gross, never ever order ice cream here!