The time has come to say farewell to India after an amazing three weeks with this fabulous team of awesome human beings. Incredibly proud of each and every individual for what they have overcome and achieved. It’s been a blast 😁

We are about to get a bus to Delhi then 3 flights before arriving in Aberdeen at 15:30 tomorrow.

We will be in touch when we get to Heathrow, fingers crossed everything will run on time.

See you all soon

Lizzie & Marsaili & Pete

Our first day in charge started off tough as we had a 1km steep hill that was technical in parts to climb to reach our highest point of the trek. We took plenty of photos at the top, that no doubt will become Facebook profile photos when we are back!

Our next challenge came in the form of leeches as over our 2/3 days in charge a leech apocalypse had emerged. Not even the leech socks could deny them. We also got our first monsoon experience and despite being soaked through and dripping wet we were all high spirited and made good fun of it.

Adam and Grace😊

Our first day of trek began on the 5th with a bus journey of roughly 6 hours to our first destination. We then began our trek of 1.5k as couldn’t complete 3k as there was 7 elephants blocking the track. When we reached our first camp we had our first team dinner, which was amazing!

On the second day of trek we set off at 8 and walked for roughly 8k. During this trek we reached our highest peak, of 1800m, where we decided to have a photo shoot! Once at our second camp site we descovered tents would not be needed as we would be glamping.

On these two days our guides Raja and Abit taught us lots about the culture and the areas we were walking through . Through this we were able to taste local plants and fruits and learn about our new surroundings.

Catherine and Molly (team leaders)

aka catty bro and mozza

• We left the first accommodation in the morning and took our first local bus.
• We then got off at the wrong bus stop to which we worked as a team to get the correct bus to get off at the right stop.
• Afterwards was the orientation presentation for our trek which begins tomorrow.
• We then took a Ferry back over to Fort Kochi; two of us were mistaken for being married.
• We headed back to our new accommodation for the night and then went out to our first traditional Indian show.
• After the show we went to a tea room for dinner and then headed back to our accommodation.
• P.S Andrew got married 3 times during the day

by Emily & Morven Team Leaders for this bit

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There are bonnie lights

And there’s cake 😁 which over promised and under delivered 😟

Cake & singing in the airport:)

Our kit has been checked, last minute bits & bobs organised and leaders appointed for the first two days.

We are ready for off!