Warm shower = heaven!

Trip Start Jul 02, 2007
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Trip End Aug 03, 2007


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Friday, July 20, 2007

Jenny is very interested in Buddhism, so we visited Kungri monastery. There was something going on, loads of people crowding in, kids everywhere and the service music playing. We sat inside for a bit and then I wandered around the grounds. It's a little strange to be around this many people after being alone for 5 days.

Then back in the jeep for the ride to Tabo. We passed some great formations as we drove around a big valley gully - just caused by erosion, I reckon, but quite striking, like the rocks in Cappadocia. We left the Pin Valley and entered Spiti proper. It's so very dry here.

In Tabo, the gang arranged to stay in the monastery there, which was pretty cool. Since it's 5 of them I might as well share a room again, this time with Dirk. That meant sharing an actual bed rather than a tent with individual sleeping bags, but I was fine with that.

I had a warm bucket shower, mmmmmmmm! The others wandered out to explore and I joined them later, after calling home. I need some more antibiotics - I finished my emergency course three days ago and, knowing this tooth, it'll be flaring up any day now. Tabo isn't big enough, but tomorrow I'm going to Kaza and hopefully there'll be a clinic there.

Best lasagne ever (apart from that one in Addis Ababa, perhaps) for dinner. I've decided to go on alone tomorrow, even though we'll all be taking the same road. I've not been on an Indian bus yet. I'm sure I'll bump into them in Kaza, but it's effectively goodbye.

I went back to pack a bit and sort my feet out. I've got a painful achilles and that blister is still a problem. Hopefully cleaning it with savlon and then wrapping it in elastoplast will do the trick. Then I hit the sack. It's quite warm tonight so it took me a while to get to sleep.
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