Mon - Arrive in Cherapungee
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Leo with his smoked frogs
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Leo's family
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Leo's family
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- Had breakfast with Leo's family ..rice and fishpaste which I guess has good vitamims. Walked past old stone buildings ..actually the buildings are not so old, but like England the buildings have to be strong to resist the weather. Past the mission houses, there is still a Welsh missionary. raining 2Km to the police post. Still no internet there. Walking down to the Eco- Park I got a ride from x and his Ethnic Nepali family from Siliguri and Karkabitta n the Nepal border.
- Eco- Park A 1Km cliff where 7 waterfalls start and there should be a view down to Bangladesh, but today was cloudy.. There are a few monoliths as well.
- Caves - better than the LP guidebook says ... A full cave system even if most of the stalactites have Been broken
| Tue- Arrive in Nongriat|
- library - why 2Km out of town in the middle of nowhere.. no internet
- walk then sumo to Tyrna ... restaurant met school teacher old woman ...down down 1000 steps to river.. wrong way then south to cable bridges then first root bridge just before Nongriat village ...village ..directed to the Rest House
- walked around met people got given Shera - barely tea pretty good
| Wed - Explore| - Followed village people up paths in forest past pineapple patches, orange trees etc they were cutting palm to sell for roofs.
- walked to the church and south along the valley to the next village. Back 1Km to steps .... and steps ....
and steps 1000s of them cutting up the valley to P village. It was even more steps than yesterday I was way above Tyrna village and the Cherapungee Resort on the opposite side of the valley.
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- Met Marcus the schoolteacher, and ate lunch with Wan Sai family - Very good smoked beef. (Mo-kasi in Khasi language)
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- upto lookout more flaming steps ... (in Khasi ) didn't continue up to the road and M village.
- back down in 45 minutes bought giat wine (industrial alcohol) and green tomatoes
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Thu- Nhokalikalai waterfalls
Nongriat down there in the valley
- followed the main north path along the river expecting to get to the base of the waterfalls.. then the path went up.. - I had to keep running I coudn't stop cos there were too many mosquitoes around me ..so end up 5,500ft higher at the top of the waterfalll after 2.20 minutes walk. ...well at least I could buy biscuits ..enjoyed the patao (pumkin) and chips at the restaurant, before heading all the way down again ..wrong path but cut back
you are the same altitude as the cement works left of pic
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Friday - Leave
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- The village wasn't great and I needed to get back to internet work. So I got up by 8.30 I was over the bridges. And this time I made it to the top in 45 minutes. It was Easter friday so I faced the prospect of haing to walk all the way, but after Tyrna I was at the road talking to the Tamil guy when I got a ride in a van. I was in Cherapungee at 10.38am.
- Still no bloody internet so after a quick meetup with Leo I had to head to Shillong
| April 22nd Nongriat update
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- Antoni was heading back to Guwahati and to Bihu festial in Majuli.
- Tom and Colin - met them on Monday 13th in Nartiang - Colin was heading back to Varanasi and Tom to tura hills (I'll be a week behind him)
- Just met Rodrigo in Shillong his stomach had flared up again so he'd rushed back from the Bangladesh border.
- The 2 Canadians ..Dylan's girlfriend has broken her ankle in 2 places (in Tyrna ?) she was going for a pee at night and local kids kept folling her so she switched her torch off and fell6ft off an edge. Ambulance to Shillong, helicopter to Guwahati to head to Delhi and to Canada we guess.
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