Day 4: Ngadi to jagat

After a good nights sleep (on my part, stephen didn’t sleep a wink) we awoke to fresh coffee and omelettes And began our hike around 7:30am. We headed along the valley and past a huge dam built by the Chinese for hydro electric power. At this point we had two options, a scrambling steep up and down walk, or the shortcut. 

We all agreed to take the more difficult but much more scenic route. 

We followed the path up past waterfalls, over suspension bridges decorated with pray flags, through villages and areas of beautiful flowers in bloom. It got rather hot once the sun came over the mountains. Factor 50 all round. It was a little challenging in parts. And rather steep. But good to feel the heart racing. We stopped for iced tea in a beautiful village at the top of steep climb up. And it even had a flushing toilet. How exciting.

We continued on to lunch last a beautiful waterfall which must have been over a kilometre high, called syange falls, before descending back down and over another, slight more precarious looking suspension bridge before lunch of egg fried potato. 

Whilst Stephen had a short nap, and the others used the WiFi. As the slowest in the group (given I’m with Stephen and someone trying out for the paratroopers) I set off a little earlier on the next up hill. I met two lovely Swedish medical students along the way and another group from the uk. 

The others caught up just outside of the village of jagat where we would stay for the night in the most beautiful tea house, again with an ensuite And even a hot shower. 

Dinner was veg curry before another early night with a thunderstorm in the background. 

Today I think we did a total of 18km with a gain from 930m to 1300m.