We are all up at 6:30am. We get hot water for washing after we get hot tea! I use the hot tea water to brush as I normally don't drink tea before brushing. I am the first to be ready and Sinha's are the last. They have not tried their packing up before so they have technical difficulties. We leave at 9am after Ranjana and I get the steri-penning down to a science. We sterilize 20L of water (4L per person). Breakfast today is porridge (yuck!!), eggs and toast.
We take off to a steep ascent. It is steeper than yesterday. We go Pole Pole (Swahili= slow slow). It is a strenuous climb. We finally make it to lunch at 1:30pm. We have Bread, zucchini soup, corn & avocado salad and hot drinks. We fill up and leave at 2:30pm. We have another 1 hour to our destination. We come to a ridge and go over it to see a clearing.
We see a very interesting flower call the lobelia. It lives 5
years in the rain forest and 1 year on the top of the mountain. It has a purple flower. We also notice the moon out at 2:30pm.
We take off to a steep ascent. It is steeper than yesterday. We go Pole Pole (Swahili= slow slow). It is a strenuous climb. We finally make it to lunch at 1:30pm. We have Bread, zucchini soup, corn & avocado salad and hot drinks. We fill up and leave at 2:30pm. We have another 1 hour to our destination. We come to a ridge and go over it to see a clearing.
We see a very interesting flower call the lobelia. It lives 5
years in the rain forest and 1 year on the top of the mountain. It has a purple flower. We also notice the moon out at 2:30pm.
We finally make it to our camp site at Shira Rock. I use the outhouse for the first time and almost throw up! I wipe bath and change for dinner. After dinner we steri-pen, Dhaval, Ranjana and I . Sonal is sick and Pradeep is tired. We get 15L of water done. We all head to bed at 9pm. It is really windy and cold. It will be a long night!!
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