Trek Day 3-4

Sorry for the delay in blogs, the wifi has been very very bad but hopefully we should be able to post more regularly.

We left our tea house at about 9:00 AM and started to trek to Tada Poni (which means hot water in Nepali; there are hot springs there).  The start of our trek was a little hot but was okay.  We soon entered a forest which was cool, shaded, and very beautiful.  It was mostly just us the whole time too, except we ran into the couple that we played Uno with the night before!

We hiked the forest for about 2-1/2 hours until we reached Tada Poni.  We got into our tea house and had some lunch.  I had fried rice, but for some reason they put ketchup on it and it was really bad.  It was also very cold and everything was wet.  I felt so damp and chilled.  Not fun.  We wrapped up in our sleeping bags to rest and about an hour later I felt nauseous and uncomfortable.  For the next couple hours I had a little bug but we got it fixed with some meds.  It left me a little weak and not hungry at all.

Thankfully I fell asleep at 7:30.  Then at around 4:30 someone directly above us yelled then fell out of bed which was very very loud, and a tiny bit funny too!  I couldn't fall asleep afterwards but I wasn't really tired either.  We woke up and had some breakfast to get ready for a big day to Ghorepani.

Trek Day 4
We started our hike at 7:40 AM.  The hike consisted of lots and lots and lots of stairs next to a river, and through the forest.  About half way through we saw a wild monkey!  It looked kinda mean though.  We got to one part where there were lots of stacked stone statues and it was amazing.  We made one too.  Around then, we saw a lot of other trekkers coming down.  it was cool to see all of the different ages and nationalities.  We stopped in Durali for lunch.  As we ate, we watched a goat eat a mattress.  Yes, a goat eating a mattress.  It was pretty hilarious AND alarming.

The rest of the hike was on a ridge in the clouds.  Unfortunately it was cloudy so we didn't any view.  We arrived in Ghoreponi after 7 hours of trekking and are sitting in the tea house waiting for dinner now.

Five things I've learned about Nepal and trekking:
1.  You need patience - for trekking, airports, getting food in tea houses, internet, etc.

2. Do not expect bathrooms to be nice at all.  Most of the time it is just a hole, so bring your own toilet paper.  In one, there was a large clump of daddy long leg spiders.  it makes me shiver when I think about it!

3. No matter where you go, there is always Pringles and Coke - everywhere!

4. Trekking is easiest when thinking of how far you've gone, not how much farther you need to go.  It makes it so much more enjoyable and fulfilling.

5.  I prefer to go uphill instead of down.  Downhill is way more tiring!