Over here the house was very small. It was almost a hut. The thought of spending this chilling night in here was almost a nightmare. First objective was to find a place to sleep which would be clean and won’t be directly exposed to the fury of the winter. We found a suitable corner which satisfied our needs. In no time we laid our beds for the night and had gained forty winks when there was some chaos and we got up to find that there was some snake like insect in our bedding. We some how got rid of it and then were ready to sleep again when dinner was served. So we quickly took our plates and went to the place where dinner was served. We were surprised to see only rice out there. There was nothing to have with rice. So we decided to continue with rice only. We took that steaming hot rice and soon started devouring it. This was the best rice I have had in my life or at least it seemed to be so. The hot rice filled our stomach which was empty for last eight hours as the only thing we had were caramel chocolates. After some time we got some liquid dal along with rice. It vanished in no time and we were soon dreaming.
Next day we were woken up at 7:00am. It was a very cold morning. In about half an hour we had completed our morning chores. We had fried rice for breakfast. After devouring it we started of for our final trek-Dhak summit.
The way went through outskirts of village for sometime. Then it moved on to the forest area. Now jungle was thick. We had to save our faces from low lying branches of trees. The climb was very comfortable. The slope of the mountain was very gentle. The cool morning breeze and the sun peeking out from the clouds made the atmosphere serene and there was an aesthetic feeling about it. We trekked for a couple of hours. On the way we could see various hill forts around us. We saw Rajmachi fort from various views. This fort was very much visible throughout our trek. It was as if trailing us. At the top we found a couple of ancient water tanks carved out in the rock. They still had water in them. We refreshed over here. Meanwhile we faced a small calamity. We had a couple of walkie talkies. The guy who was having it was stooping over the water tanks and accidentally it landed up in the water. So some one dived in that tank to retrieve it but was unable to find it the depths of water. He was about to give up when he felt something beneath his feet and wonder oh wonder it was the walkie talkie! My friend Rohit had his birthday. So we celebrated it over here. After spending some time over here we started to descend.
On our way back we engaged ourselves in joking and riddling each other. In all these activities we never realized how the time went by. Soon we were back in the village. Over here lunch was ready. We had our lunch rested for a while soon bid a bye to Dhak behind.
Thus my trek came to an end with very nice memories and a couple of good friends.
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