What an amasing nights sleep ! With the best nights sleep behind us and going to bed on a high we woke up raring to go. Had our first proper breakfast of the trip and went down to the lake. Today we have decided to go to the peace stupa and to a waterfall. We got a boat ride across the lake by a lady called Mia who was lovely. We had decided we were going to hike up to the stupa, which the lonely planet said should be a 2 hour round trip. It wasnt as hot today about 26 degree celcius so was quite looking forward to it. Once on the shore we past a restaurant called 'Typical restaurant' which made me chuckle it looked very typical. Then up the rocky steps "its like the steps up to mordor" and yep they did look very similar to them. The views were amasing and i got my first glimpse of snowy mountains !! very exciting. Apparently im not as fit as i thought and was pretty out of breath but i made my self feel better by reminding myself that i was now on my way to becoming the next steve backshall or Nick backer. We stopped of at a little shop on the way and baught some fanta (which was very flat). We finally arived at the top, the stupa was very beautiful, so were the views and we could see lots of snowy mountains now ! We took our shoes of and walked around the stupa which was nice and cold on our feet. I saw lots of butterflys, ladybirds, buzzing things and a spider ( i now want to be nick baker). We sat down in a cafe to work out how we were getting down and had a quick chat with some other travelers. In the lonely planet guide it said there was a waterfall near by that we could walk to so we decided to try and find this. On are way though we bumped into some other travelers who said that it was rubbish and wasnt worth it. So we didnt bother. They pointed us down a path and said its steep and down hill but just keep on going and you'l come out in Damside and from there can walk to lakside. We decided to listen to them and take the road down hill. It was no way as good and well used as the path up but it was some sort of path all the same. We didnt see anyone on the way down but there was always some sort of rubbish on the path which we took as a good sign that at one point not that long ago some people had been that way. It was pretty exciting but there were lots of insects and occasionally leaves falling on you which can be just as scary when you dont no what they are. We were a little concerned we had been walking for a while and not seen anyone and at some points the once upon a time path split up but we figure as long as we were going down hill towards the lake it would be some where close. After doing a few little runs from groups of flys and scary bugs giselle stopped me. AHH ! right in front of us were 2 monkeys just walking along on the path away from us. "OMG ! what do we do?" "I dont no! What does it say in your book" it said that they tend to hang in groups of 50 and that they like to try and take you glasses untill you give them food. "we dont have any food" umm "They can have my water bottle if they want" i started looking around my bag thinking what do i do if one starts running at me or trys to steal my glasses ! "I have lip balm".."yes just give them your lipbalm!" I only got 3 photos but there were quite a few but i was a) very shocked (the lonely planet guide said if you were very lucky your might see some monkeys, so wasnt expecting it) and b) i didnt want to scare them and i didnt want them running of with it. We carried on walking really slowly but loudly enough so they new we were there. One of them sat on a log stared at us but was quite content eating its branch, and the others just walked away from us further into the forest. I can easily say that has been the best bit of the trip so far, if not of my life. Really cant get into words how amasing they were. (I'm also thankful they didnt bite, thanx monkeys)
also im going to apologise for allllll the spelling mistakes ! im trying to write them very speadly ! maybe onday i will go back and correct them :)
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