The final day of the trip
We got up at 10 to 6 in order to pack up the tents and have breakfast before 7.
My tent partner and I would share a bag with our water, food an other hiking essentials for the day. It became surprisingly heavy (and I'm sure I didn't over compensate for "essentials"). The rest of our luggage was to be taken by bus to school.
We eventually left camp at 7:30, 30 minutes after our planned departure time. It's funny how often things like that happen on camps.
The first part of the climb was walking through the hills and farms of Poondi village.
There were many small streams that crossed our path which were all connected as part of an irrigation project. During this part of the journey I wasn't very aware of where I was putting my feet and soon enough they were covered with mud, and made a squelching sound with each step.
At the top of one of the hills though there was a great view.
The rest of the hike was quite boring, until we reached the waterfall at 11:45.
There were a lot of leeches at the waterfall. Some of the 9th graders ended up spraying lemon grass oil on the rocks so we could eat lunch in peace.
At the bottom of the waterfall I managed to put my shoes and socks in for a swim, by trying to step onto a plant but just went straight into the water.
Whilst at the water fall we encountered some park officers, who asked us to leave. There has been a lot of problems between the school hiking and the forest department this year, and to avoid a conflict over permission we left.
An hour of more walking and we arrived at the buses. We all took a photo for the school Yearbook, and started the trip back to Kodai.
It took us an hour by bus to get to the place where we started, then another hour to get back to school.
Most of us tried to get to sleep on our bags next to us in the bus.
That was the 80 mile hike.
To the final batch of photo's!
Thankfully, my camera survived the entire camp and only went down 1 bar of battery.
I am very glad that I was able to go on the hike. It was quite challenging but still
a lot of fun and an opportunity.
I'll try to get the update post out soon, been a lot to share.
Anyway, hope you've enjoyed the pics and that I didn't bore you with my re-telling of the story.
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