Gregelope: Last few days of the trek. The view from our lodge.
Gregelope: Last few days of the trek. Another view from the lodge garden.
Gregelope: Last few days of the trek. A view from the lawn where I sat and meditated looking out over these magnificent mountains.
Gregelope: The beginning of the first day's walking.
Gregelope: Village people up in the hills.
Gregelope: More village people, clearly wondering who this motley bunch of idiots were, wandering through their back yards.
Gregelope: First camp at dawn on Easter Sunday.
Gregelope: A man in the village up in the hills, building a bed in his front room.
Gregelope: Grandma watching over the baby as we trek through the village.
Gregelope: Village children watching a game of cricket on a small "pitch" qwith sheer drops all round. Everyone from the smallest boy, to young men and women were joining in the game. Some of our guides took the bat too.
Gregelope: Half way up the mountain, on the first day's trek, suffering from heat exhaustion and altitude - but what a fantastic view.
Gregelope: In the village of Bir, a beautiful Tibetan temple, looks rather like an iced cake.
Gregelope: Another view of the Tibetan temple at Bir.
Gregelope: In McCloud Gange, a Tibetan lady alters a Chupa for one of our trekkers.
Gregelope: McCloudGang viewed from a hotel window.
Gregelope: India & Taj mahal from the entrance.
Gregelope: Just outside Delhi an ancient Hindu temple.
Gregelope: Ganesh decorated at the ancient Hindu temple near Delhi.
Gregelope: The last day of the trek, high in the mountains.
Gregelope: During one of the walks, looking down the sheer drop to the river below.
Gregelope: The view on one of our walks.
Gregelope: High in the hills, a lady carries a huge bundle of animal fodder on her back. There was no-one to look after her baby son, so she had to carry him too.
Gregelope: Starting off again, after a snack break.
Gregelope: Looking up at the route ahead, on day 1.
Gregelope: Two of our guides prepare chapatis on the "stove" in the "kitchen" at the lodge.
Gregelope: A strange creature lurking in the woods? No, just a weirdly shaped tree stump looming out of the heat haze.