Lovely to read this reflection of our jungle adventures. Is it the journey or the destination? Neither - it’s the company, and I feel enormous gratitude to get to travel and meet some amazing people along the way! Safe travels Cat.
What an amazing adventure - so well described. As you say -the fellow trekkers and the guide(s) make all the difference -gold dust if you get good ones. For me reminiscent of a medical trek I did in Kashmir back in the day - same attitude of indigenous people towards us and same dwellings the World over -just different materials. The one thing that totally hit home was the contrasting footware -the wellies of the guides and the climbing boots of the trekkers. In my case the horsemen wore plastic sandals - even at 15,000feet !
Gosh - plastic sandals sounds even tougher than wellies. i have to say by the time we had cleaned our boots, got them muddy again, cleaned, muddy etc on repeat i started to think they had the right idea!
Thanks for such a wonderful and informative review. I am doing this trip in March and wondered about the night time temperatures? I have camped before in other countries and I never seem to get my expectations of night time temperatures right. any feedback would be much appreciated.x
Hi Marion. Thank you so much for reading. It’s such a great trip. I can only really comment on the temperatures we experienced and not sure how much it will drop but generally was fine overnight. You will have a few nights indoors in community centres and a few outdoors. Our biggest challenge was being wet at the time and the showers are cold everywhere so in the evenings I found myself putting on leggings, socks and a jumper or fleece mostly to warm up post shower. Overnight I was fine in a t-shirt in the sleeping bag. If I were going again I’d take more pairs of socks and do a better job of keeping a set of clothes separate and dry for the evening. I’d also pack a pillow!
Lovely to read this reflection of our jungle adventures. Is it the journey or the destination? Neither - it’s the company, and I feel enormous gratitude to get to travel and meet some amazing people along the way! Safe travels Cat.
Sara
What an amazing adventure - so well described. As you say -the fellow trekkers and the guide(s) make all the difference -gold dust if you get good ones. For me reminiscent of a medical trek I did in Kashmir back in the day - same attitude of indigenous people towards us and same dwellings the World over -just different materials. The one thing that totally hit home was the contrasting footware -the wellies of the guides and the climbing boots of the trekkers. In my case the horsemen wore plastic sandals - even at 15,000feet !
Thank you for sharing your experience
Duncan
Gosh - plastic sandals sounds even tougher than wellies. i have to say by the time we had cleaned our boots, got them muddy again, cleaned, muddy etc on repeat i started to think they had the right idea!
Hi Catherine
Thanks for such a wonderful and informative review. I am doing this trip in March and wondered about the night time temperatures? I have camped before in other countries and I never seem to get my expectations of night time temperatures right. any feedback would be much appreciated.x
Hi Marion. Thank you so much for reading. It’s such a great trip. I can only really comment on the temperatures we experienced and not sure how much it will drop but generally was fine overnight. You will have a few nights indoors in community centres and a few outdoors. Our biggest challenge was being wet at the time and the showers are cold everywhere so in the evenings I found myself putting on leggings, socks and a jumper or fleece mostly to warm up post shower. Overnight I was fine in a t-shirt in the sleeping bag. If I were going again I’d take more pairs of socks and do a better job of keeping a set of clothes separate and dry for the evening. I’d also pack a pillow!