Monday, May 3, 2010

Gorkhey

The next day as I open my eyes the Phalut Top was a whole cloudy, like all other cloudy mornings. I was not mourning as I knew Im not lucky at all.

The days trail was quite easy compare to last two days. We had our breakfast and set out at 10AM. We walked through the rain forest for around 15 km. It was gradually down, somewhere steep.We walked down the trail through the narrow muddy short routes through the forest at a speed of ~3.1 Km. Best performance so far!

We'he seen so many variety of Rhods, Magnolia and many more we don't know. I have snapped quite a few forest centric scape, closeup of the flowers and the blossoming leaves...I felt engrossed with the forest like did for all other previous occurrences.

We stayed for a break to have breakfast, second round, at a nicely scaped area. Covered with Rhods, and forest at one end and clear blue sky, an awesome view.

We reached to a spot finally where the full landscape of Gorkhey revealed to our eyes. It was so good. We stayed at the top notch, the viewpoint for around an hour or so to apprehend the tranquility of a village surrounded by hills.

Later we came down to the trekker's hut. It was shaped like a sandwich in vertical. We stayed there, had tea with .... flavor and had chapati on snacks. Then we went to a firm house near the river and did a photosession, chat for long hours, weather degraded aroung at 5 and we had to come back. The clouds, dark and light and many more were forming collage in the mountain surrounded residual open sky area. You could easily locate a bull or a horse elsewhere an elephant with tasks with them.
The could makes a rapid traversal changing forms and color. Then it starts raining slowly. We came to our candle-lighted dorm and start seeing the snaps taken the whole day.

People with us said its a haunted kind of house, wooden structure some empty rooms, no electricity and dim lights of candle made it abstruse. We had our dinner at 8 and we two decided to stay upstairs. All empty rooms and just two of us turned up to be thrilling. We three chat for long while when one retired, our Hut's caretaker "Som" joined us with his vast, a-different-world of experience. We discussed about all small things to big serious issues and gathered a little experience on lot of unknown areas. It started raining already, the ice was falling onto the tinned roof creating a typical sound. It was quite a memorable moment while we found falling ice just two feet above my head at the roof and we are chatting in the low candle light with absolute silence in surrounding other than rainfall.We slept at around 1AM.