Rejuvenating The Spirit

Theme: Rejuvenating the spirit
Hiking Route: Lele-Nallu-Bhardeu-Lamidana-Lele
Day: June 29, 2008, Sunday
Hike Coordinator: Usha Rani Das
Participants: AnjanaS, SangeetaR, BrijaK, PragyaR, UpasanaR, SabitaK, AlinaS(Rookie), UshaD, Jyotsna, RinaM, SwetaS, Richa(Guest), Sunita(Guest)
Photos: RinaM, BrijaK, UshaD, JyotsnaS
Caption: AnjanaS, Upasana, SangeetaR
Report: AlinaS, SabitaK, PragyaR, AnjanaS
Creative Support: Dijup/Dhilung/Pallavi

Rejuvenating the spirit
Thirteen ladies of D2 were all set to rejuvenate their spirits into one of the most cherished tradition named ‘Hiking’. The vivacious beauties congregated at D2 premises on a misty Sunday morning and left around 6:45 am with every intention to explore the adventures of the new trail. Since this was the first one-of-a-kind ladies hiking, we thought of enhancing the already unique event by coming up with a dress code. Everyone agreed to wear white tops to show uniformity. Cracking jokes, taking snapshots, and sightseeing along the way, we headed towards our destination.

We started our hike from Lele. After walking for some distance, we saw a school named ‘Sri Gupteshwori Nimna Madhyamik Bidhyalaya’ at a place called Nallu. We decided to stop by and spend some time there. We had a short interaction with the teachers and distributed stationery and chocolates to the students. Then we bid them goodbye and continued with our hike.
After a while we stopped for breakfast at a local tea. While waiting for breakfast, we came up with a brilliant idea to play “Dumb Charade” and had loads of fun. AnjanaS was victorious in the game and Brija was the funniest. She had to enact this movie called “Musafir”. By showing her white-colored T-shirt and her gesture of playing badminton, everyone guessed that the actor was none other but “Jeetendra” – some style he’s got!

After a hearty breakfast, we headed for Lamidanda, our ultimate destination. This was probably the toughest part of our hike because of the steep climb; and the simple fact that it was monsoon made it even worse. The route was teeming with blood-thirsty leeches. The frantic cries of the hikers were common after being attacked by the leeches but the parasites couldn’t deter the spirit of the thirteen ladies. Instead, we learnt a lesson from them: “Run for your life”. Whenever we stopped for some rest, the very sight of the leeches stretching their heads out to reach to us made us forget our tiredness and run further up. Brija was left wondering why the leeches stayed at places where people hardly tred. They might as well go and live in the cities.

Learning the lesson of the day, all the hikers ventured up the hill in the cool weather that further revitalized them. We finally reached the army barrack on the top of the hill. The open field and the view were both captivating. We were really amazed at the beauty of the place.
On the way back, we stopped to plant paddy as it was Ashad 15 – the day people sow grain in the country. The local population was warm and hospitable. We joined them to plant and plough, and sang folk and Ashare songs with them. So enthralling was their voice that some of us even started dancing to the tunes. They were also so delighted that they offered us some of their home made pickle. After spending about an hour in the muddy field, we headed back to Kathmandu.

Though we left the place, and the leeches, and the school, and the tea shop that took us back into our childhood, and the marvelous view, and the field planting with the locals, and the sweat behind, we carried with us memories to last for a life time.

After all, the pain and the loss of blood were definitely worth the experience.

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01 Reserving the first Seat

02 Happy to hike

03 The eager interns

04 D2 Ambassador

05 Getting ready for the tough path ahead

06 Hiking essentials

07 The trail begins

08 The march forward

09 ….and the cows accompany us

10 On the way to Lamedanda

11 The landscape

12 Heaven on earth

13 The misty mountain

14 Lonely path

15 3D photography

16 Children of the corn

17 Spectacular spectators

18 Sisters in hand

19 The peaceful mountains

20 House atop hill

21 Entering the local tea shop

22 I drink tea

23 You drink tea

24 She drinks tea

25 And we all drink tea

26 Those are for us

27 Helping hands

28 Icecream soda sugar on the top….

29 It has 10 words…..dumb charade

30 The first syllable is….dumb charade

31 Being attentive

32 Flies flying to BOSTON

33 Motherly care Part1

34 Motherly care Part2

35 The school we would go to

36 Talking with the teacher

37 Here you go nanu

38 Thank you D2

39 Innocence thrusting her nose

40 I love the lady foreigners

41 Those creatures called `D2 Women`

42 Free flowing water

43 Rain drops in the water

44 Crossing the river

45 This is how we do it

46 Time to hike again

47 Yes Jyotsna, that is the spirit

48 Interns follow

49 The steep climb

50 Sky touching trees

51 One Two Three

52 A guest hiking partner

53 In front of the barrack

54 Dai, tyo jutta ma ni juka pascha….

55 In my territory

56 Beautiful skinned insect

57 The catepillar before

58 The butterfly after

59 Bloody leach honored

60 Shooing the leeches

61 End of the descend

62 Can you see the blood

63 Checking for leeches in there

64 Walking under the umbrellas

65 And the God spoke to us…..

66 We believe we can fly

67 We believe we can touch the sky

68 Sweet Pragya

69 Women padding

70 We go join them

71 Planting

72 Together we plant again

73 Standing above our own reflections

74 Rina at home with the locals

75 Dancing to their songs

76 We all have a good time

77 And so do they

78 The muddy feet

79 Ho mane ho

80 Ashare pandra gift

81 Mark of Asar 15

82 Let`s get going now

83 Worldly wisdom

84 Another mark of Asar

85 Lunch time in Ktm

86 Wonders of Tukche

87 And finally…thanks to Ram dai!

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July 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 am

Rejuvenating spirits of high school athletes!

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