Changu lake in clouds!
Left for Changu lake by 8:30 AM. The road was pretty bad. I now realised the quality of our car as we travelled in a Sumo. The road clearance makes a great difference. The lake is beautiful and so are the yaks. I did not want to ride the Yak to reach the Pagoda though I did pose for a picture with Yak :). A walk is much better (and cheaper)!! I hate the people who litter in such a spot. The lake looked very dreamy with fog and clouds.
It started raining as we walked back from the Pagoda. Mom took a slightly different route as she was confident that that was a shorter route to the taxi stand. She was wrong! Dad and I reached there much faster. We then took out the umbrella from the car (we realised that whenever we did not take the umbrellas with us, it used to rain L ) and ran back to escort mom to the car.
On the way back, our Sumo got stuck in a jam as the bulldozer there was clearing a mud-slide. As we were parked there, stones started coming from the hillside. It was scary but nothing serious happened.
One more interesting thing on the road was ANDA bridge. We first thought that it was acronym for some army related term. Our driver told us that it stood for egg in Hindi! The bridge is situated exactly at 8000 ft which is considered by Army as the starting of high altitude. So if you are working below the ANDA bridge, you get one ANDA (egg) as part of your ration and if you work above the bridge, you get two!!
Then, we decided to go back to the zoo. We got to see the leopard and most amazingly, the leopard cat. After around four years of longing to see the creature after my visit to Dudhwa, my heart thirst was finally quenched. No photo to show of it though...
The next discovery, was that on the wet trail to see the leopard cat, leeches had attacked us. First time, these creatures ever sucked my blood. Disgusting really, but on a second thought, how much will little creature drink??
For once and for all, my fear of leeches has been overcome.
Walking track next to Changu lake
That is at the lake
A Taxi driver on the way to Changu lake :)
Our room in Royal Deemazong
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