and involves crossing a few valleys to reach. I found it a real hard slog
but the frenchies were very patient with me and we had a dog for company who seemed to know the way.
Eventually we got there then headed up the hill for another 30 mins to a
homestay village on sort of a peninsula of a big hill. It was very basic but
authentic. It was an Israeli girls birthday so we had a few beers and games
of chess and yatzee before bed (the dog was still with us and slept outside
my door).
It was another beautiful morning today with fantastic views and a great
sikkimesse breakfast curry.
Malte, a german guy, and I headed down to the lake walked around it and up
to view point, briefly meeting my canine friend again.
Eventually we tried to get a jeep back to Yuksom but of the 20 or so jeeps
parked there they were all going the other way. We couldn't even persuade
any to take us to the main road as they all wanted full fair to their
destination. We began to walk and hitch. Eventually an Indian family in a
jeep stopped and offered us the roof of the jeep.
This was not like being on the roof of a big bus across the Terri (flat
lands) in Nepal. This was a small jeep on windy, rough roads with sheer
drops on one side. The worst was the breaking that almost threw us in front
of the jeep on occasions. Still we made it to the junction with the Yuksom road and soon hitched a lift back. Thankfully we weren't on the roof this time as we went under the waterfall again.
I got back only to find that the dog was here already asleep at the front of
the guest house.
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