"I hope you have a beautiful journey....just like you"

Today was a nice and early start, up at 4.15 am !! anyone that knows me knows im not the best in the morning but i was in such a jolly mood that getting up at 4 felt like the norm. We wondered out the hotel in search of a taxi (a man in the hotel assured us that there are always taxis about). Ahh weres a taxi, it seemed there wernt loads of taxis waiting for us. It was not to long though until one drvoe up to us pulled over "TAXI ?"....."yep, to sarangkot point". The taxi man told us it was going to cost 600 Rs, at first we thought this might of been abit expensive but after looking through our 8 year old lonely planet guide which said it would cost 500Rs we thought we had probly got a bargain.
As expected despite it being half 5 in the morning when we left our taxi there was a man ready in ambush us. "you want a guide yes?". we said no as we figured it couldnt be that hard to find the path up.
we hadnt been climbing for that long when a local lady ushered us into her cafe/ shop. "the best view is from here, tea? coffee?"....."um no thanx". we wondered around and then climbed her stairs to get higher. When we looked up we could see that the mountain definatly went up alot higher so we asked a young lady who was near what was up there. "tower"... the other lady came back "no no its army up there down here much better." We decided she was probly lying and there was no harm in finding out for our selves anyway so we left to carry on up the mountain. It felt pretty adventures climbing up in the dark with our torches but after awhile it was like when will we get there !
It was a little disapointing but that is nearly all to blame on the mist. The hope of seeing lots of mountains was gone it was just an awful lot of mist. The man up there said it had been like that for 2 days now. Oh well.
Giselle wanted to walk down abit and get some food and see if the mist cleared. I on the other hand was to busy feeling sorry for my self (i always thinks this helps when your ill). Although i have managed to avoid the runs so far (YAY) and any funny tummys, my skin how ever seems to not like it out here. The one thing i didnt really think about getting was heat rash or dermatitis ( i have now learnt my lesson).
We walked down abit until a local lady offered us tea or coffee, so we accepted. She was very lovely and there was a child there who got out her english book and started singing a song about a dog and cat (she was very good). The tea was also very nice. But on the other hand i couldnt eat her food ( i felt very bad and did pay her anyway)The scrambled egg did really look like it had been cooked for very long at all, and the toast (was a little bit just like bread) had just got a blob of honey and two blobs of butter on them (it also had an ant on it, nice). i had one slice of toast and couldnt eat anymore. We also got a snicker bar that was 6 months out of date, tasted fine thou.
The mist didnt clear so we decided just to start heading down the lonely planet said it would take aorund 2-3 hours but was farely easy path to follow (this was a lie). We walked the little bit we new down to where the taxis were, turned down a taxi "it's a very long way down, you want taxi?" we said we wanted to walk and giselle did actions just incase they didnt get it. He did and directed us in the right direction. After getting a little further down we bumped into a group of young men. "you want taxi" ..."no no we want to walk"(insert walking action". "you dont want taxi, you want to walk, you want a guide?" they all laughed at this point. "no were ok"..."you dont want a guide, you might get lost"...."no were fine we can find our way"...."its a free, you can have a free guide"...his friend then shouted "two free guides".... we said no again and laughed. They shouted tata and some other things along with "i hope you have a beautiful journey... just like you." we were a little worried they might follow us. They didnt.
The path home did take around 2-3 hours but we dont think we did it right though. We bumped into lots of lovely people on are way including a boy in his bike whp just rang his bell and confessed his love for us (not sure if he just learnt this at school or if he didnt no what he was shouting but it was a little strange.) We walked past a little girl "namaste, give me money" we didnt they dont seem to learn please. The main reason we new we had taken the wrong turn some were is when the path ran out, it was either go back, slide down a steep maybe once path that looked anything but safe or go through some ones house. We chose to attempt the latter. "Namaste !" giselle shouted this a few times into there garden, it felt reasonably dramatic. After a few shouts two ladies came out. We just asked where lakeside was and she pointed away through her garden we could take. It was pretty comical and im sure we looked like stupid tourists as we tried to find our way through her garden while getting a quick shower as we had to walk under her flower sprinkler. We could hear the old lady laughing, i hope we made her day, if not im sure we left her very confused. Special thanks goes to her.WHAM yep we saw some more monkeys ! i got some more photos as they were swinging in the trees this time so were less scary but by no way less cute, part of me now wants a pet monkey. We made it down the hill safe and soundly while passing some one who i think has a large resemblance to Robert Pattison, i have seen him 3 times today, giselle told me to shout Rob at him next time. Maybe i will.