so we got up at 430am to start out journey to his house a village 3k north of mcloud ganj, with a extremely vague idea of where to go, we finally made it there at 6 to find everyone still asleep. so we caught our breathe after the demanding 500m hike to his house and feared the 5000m trek ahead us!
we got there with no water and had not eatin anything. they made us some doggy black tea which instantly came back up.. perhaps the water..... i duno but not a good way to start. anyways we then set off. AJ (our guide) a native to the area assured us we could get water soon. so off we go.
it 2ish hour before we reached a lovley mountain cafe. were we had chai and downed a bunch of water.. with every step the view became more breath taking.... literally breath takin... the air condition gets very tin and u find ur selfpanting after a couple of steps. so we made it 2 our first stop tarun or somehting like that 2500 meters. we took a break there for about half and hour then treked to our base camp at snowline, 3300 meters. we arrived there at about 4. just in time for a major hail storm, fortunately there was a man there with a hut, where we took refuge. we were ment to walk another 2k from here but we were so exhausted we stayed there that night, to get good rest for tomorrows summit to indarh pass. the man made us tea, breakfest, dinner.. etc.. and by night we enjoyed the stars to a fire and a couple glasses of rum. we also got to be there during a full moon, pretty epic)
we got up the next day and started the trek to the pass. took us about 5 hours to get there from snowline and 3 hours to return. the views were spectacular and once on the top the view to the other side was amazing!!! cant really describe it but pics will come. so ye we got bac to base camp at night fall made another fire and got drunk.. me and chris felt very weak on the first day. but today charlie and nick ( an aussie ) traveling with us fell to the altitude sickness. kinda scary getting light headed and feeling woobly when u r jumping accross rocks 1000's of meters up. how no one fell and got injured i dont no.
anways a great day.. the next morning we packed and only hiked for a hour before aj said do u want to stay in that temple or a cave. and we all saw the temple and views and said temple. ( it had a stone hut just to the right of the temple where we slept.) plus it ment settling down for the day and charlies head was playing up again. staying in a temple on the very peak of a mountain was the highlight for me for sure and i think the other felt the same away. truly magical experience, and someone had left some hash as an offering in the temple, so AJ laughed grabbed it and said here boys enjoy i will smoke this with u as it is very holly. so an amaizng night up there!!!! then we got up the next morning and hiked back down to aj's guest house. called osho guest house, all the people there fall osho.. duno if anyone has heard of osho but he is a spiritual leader, ( not a religion) they have views and things like that... mainly believe life should not be lived seriously and everything should be fun and laughter. anyways got back rested and aj made us dinner and brought us a bottle of wiskey. which was ncie but we wanted an early night as we had to get a 5 oclock bus the next day to amiristar. but he insisted we drank it all with him so we did.
got up at 3 and started our voyage to the golden temple amirista!!!
we got there with no water and had not eatin anything. they made us some doggy black tea which instantly came back up.. perhaps the water..... i duno but not a good way to start. anyways we then set off. AJ (our guide) a native to the area assured us we could get water soon. so off we go.
it 2ish hour before we reached a lovley mountain cafe. were we had chai and downed a bunch of water.. with every step the view became more breath taking.... literally breath takin... the air condition gets very tin and u find ur selfpanting after a couple of steps. so we made it 2 our first stop tarun or somehting like that 2500 meters. we took a break there for about half and hour then treked to our base camp at snowline, 3300 meters. we arrived there at about 4. just in time for a major hail storm, fortunately there was a man there with a hut, where we took refuge. we were ment to walk another 2k from here but we were so exhausted we stayed there that night, to get good rest for tomorrows summit to indarh pass. the man made us tea, breakfest, dinner.. etc.. and by night we enjoyed the stars to a fire and a couple glasses of rum. we also got to be there during a full moon, pretty epic)
we got up the next day and started the trek to the pass. took us about 5 hours to get there from snowline and 3 hours to return. the views were spectacular and once on the top the view to the other side was amazing!!! cant really describe it but pics will come. so ye we got bac to base camp at night fall made another fire and got drunk.. me and chris felt very weak on the first day. but today charlie and nick ( an aussie ) traveling with us fell to the altitude sickness. kinda scary getting light headed and feeling woobly when u r jumping accross rocks 1000's of meters up. how no one fell and got injured i dont no.
anways a great day.. the next morning we packed and only hiked for a hour before aj said do u want to stay in that temple or a cave. and we all saw the temple and views and said temple. ( it had a stone hut just to the right of the temple where we slept.) plus it ment settling down for the day and charlies head was playing up again. staying in a temple on the very peak of a mountain was the highlight for me for sure and i think the other felt the same away. truly magical experience, and someone had left some hash as an offering in the temple, so AJ laughed grabbed it and said here boys enjoy i will smoke this with u as it is very holly. so an amaizng night up there!!!! then we got up the next morning and hiked back down to aj's guest house. called osho guest house, all the people there fall osho.. duno if anyone has heard of osho but he is a spiritual leader, ( not a religion) they have views and things like that... mainly believe life should not be lived seriously and everything should be fun and laughter. anyways got back rested and aj made us dinner and brought us a bottle of wiskey. which was ncie but we wanted an early night as we had to get a 5 oclock bus the next day to amiristar. but he insisted we drank it all with him so we did.
got up at 3 and started our voyage to the golden temple amirista!!!
can't wait to see the pics boys...that temple sounds perfect. just want to let you all know we are thinking about you as we approach Thanksgiving. I trust you all will celebrate in your own unique way. Safe Travels
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I have jealousy seeping out of my veins. I am so proud of you boys for totally going balls to the wall and taking advantage of all of the amazingness each place has to offer...but i would expect nothing less! Miss you dearly! You're all going to be changed men when you return. Lots of love from Cali! xoxoxoxo
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