The next morning we woke up early and began a steep hike across a landslide-ravaged trail. We stopped at a camp to eat lunch and then continued walking across the steep areas until we arrived at the highest lake in the world, Tilicho Lake. It was an almost fake-looking blue and it was absolutely beautiful.
We were the only people there because we had started later than others, but we had planned it that way on purpose. There was a teahouse there and it was very expensive because it was the only one and it was cold! Also, on the way up, I had noticed a snow formation that looks exactly like a frog wizard or princess! Nobody else saw it, but tell me what you think! (This is a bad shot, by the way)
We descended and arrived at camp. There, we got ready and had to squeeze against the wall because there were so many people in the dining hall! For real. There. Was. No. Room. ANYWHERE. We talked to a couple who was also backpacking around the world and then we found a table surrounded by sleeping girls and later went to sleep. The next morning, we woke up at a reasonable time and laughed as we saw the stragglers of Tilicho Lake’s World War III to get out the front door. The first hundred people had already left, but the other hundred were the stragglers we witnessed. They were all going up very early in the morning and we knew that it would be freezing and packed with people. Also, they would hardly have any light! We hiked and ate breakfast uneventfully, but the scenery was beautiful and we got to pass by the ruins of an old village. However, when we got to Yak Kharka, there were three areas of guest houses and none of them had any room! Ganesh ran ahead and reserved us two rooms at the farthest guest house, but at least we didn’t have to sleep in the kitchen! We had passed a large group of millennials earlier and I had no clue where they were going to sleep. We worked on homework and read a bit, but then Troy made me gather the courage to ask a Swedish woman if I could watch her make string bracelets. She said yes and even offered to teach me! Therefore, I made one rainbow adult-sized bracelet, and it wasn’t too shabby if I do say so myself! She gave me three extra sets of string and then we went to bed.
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Ella