EGT - Day 5

Well we had a good sleep last night. Today it was very cold out in the morning as we were ascending the altitude day by day. After a good breakfast and packed lunch started our journey to Sunkarametta which was at a height of 3642 feet (MSL). This day it was a short trek. It was about 6km trek to Sunkarametta. This day was a special day. Know what it was December 26th Christmas Day. We wished our project director Mr. Ravi a "Merry Christmas" and started to the next camp. This day we started at around 7:40am and we were enjoying all along the way. This time there were no steepy slopes!! All the time we were on plains itself crossing through the fields and descending much of the time.
At a point we can cover the entire view of the valley. All mountains and in between there is a vast plain fields which looks like a gaint football field amongst the boundary walls of the mountains.


Last night Sriram injured his leg at the camp. So he was a bit slow and he was accompanied by Krishh. This day it was nothing much to say. We just walked, kept our pace right from the beginning. We had ups and downs but crossed them all with ease. As of now we became experts in trekking (We feel so).

We reached the camp Sunkarametta at around 10:30am. The place where we camped was also near the village's primary school. Beside the school there was a big old church. By the way that church had an history. It was built at the time of Britishers. At the back of the school there was a vast play ground. As it was a christmas day people from the near by villages were thronging in to the church. It was colorful. All dressed up in new clothes and wishing all the others whoever are in the way. Some of our toop planned to visit Araku and some stayed at the camp. We four planned to walk around the place. At the camp we were having some gala time.
All the kids were playing with little dogs which came from nowhere and were sighted to the eyes of the kids. Some were eating Icecreams some were sharing snaps.
Well at this point we had one of our trekker leave us due to his office work. Ashish was running tight on his work and schedule. So we all did a farewell to him as he left trek unaccomplished.
After lunch we slowly moved into our tents just to have a nap.

Well we were not exactly having a nap but some chitchats as there were huge background NOISE (music) was going on at the church. Later the day we 4 started to move around. We roamed across the Ananthagiri coffee plantations, black pepper plantations.


















After roaming here and there at the sunset time we reached the camp. There we played a bit of cricket. After that we set out to the Sunkarametta village and called up to our parents saying that we are absolutely doing good and not at all recollecting you at this point.

After that everyone by the daybreak reached the camp and after the dinner we had a camp fire. Now this had some fire in the people and there were songs, dances and jokes. With that the day ended.