Three days of travelling including a 12-hr shared jeep journey with a crazy driver, helping celebrate a Sikh-birthday party with toast&jam and orange fanta,
a 14 km uphill trek
and a pony trek
we finally reached the Valley of Flowers, the aim of our journey , and WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT IT WAS!!!!!!!
The valley of flowers was discovered only 80 years ago by a British pioneer and being a National Heritage Site cost us 600rs each to go and see it. It must have been off-season though because the valley only had 2 colours of flowers: a light purple and beige; what the hell?!?!?! I was expecting every colour under the sun.
Here's a photo of me running off to play in the valley of flowers, looking slightly more colourful than the valley of flowers:
We took a couple more photographs and chilled out.
Even though the valley of flowers wasn't as good as we'd expected the trip itself was a lot of fun and I made some very nice new Israeli friends :-)
flowers are delicate things.... in season, right after the first rains is the time to go...... before and much later it can look like any old hill
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