Hiking

We also did some really cool things last week, one of them being hiking. So there is this sweet mountain range near us, well idk if you’d call it a mountain or a steep rocky hill. So Mary Ellen and I wanted to climb it. Brother agreed to go with us. We started walking through the fields toward the mountain and brother wanted to take the road, not free climb the mountain, we were disappointed to say the least. As we were walking, we met these two random Indians and brother talked to them and they decided to take us somewhere to get mangos. I was down for that. A little boy tagged along too.

So we walk through some more fields, and get to a slightly smaller mountain. And we start climbing and we get to these mango trees and this guy climbs us 35 feet in seconds and starts throwing fruit at me. He mighta said ‘hey I’m throwing these down to you American man, be ready to catch them’ but he didn’t speak English so for all I know he coulda been talking to the birds, or wasps that had a nest in the same tree.

So we kept hiking and the sun is setting, so I took pictures. It was awesome. And we kept climbing and you could see the whole village area. Seriously breath taking. I whipped out my knife and sliced up my mango and bit into it and started laughing as the juice started rolling down my chin. It tasted like a mango mixed with lemon or grapefruit. It was still soo good. I had 3. Since they just came off the tree, they weren’t ripe yet. Also many wild mangos are used for pickling and not summer consumption. So we’ve been hiking for almost 2 hours now and we starting to reach the end and we see these guys with wooden bows and wooden arrows. Like guys in their 20s, I guess hunting rabbits. As we were walking back we saw a soccer, sorry, futball game going on so we stopped and brother stated telling them I wanted to play, I’m wearing hiking boots. It’s getting dark. No one’s speaking English to me. I don’t know where I am. Sure I’ll play. Turns out they were just wrapping up. One guy did know some English and decided to show us his garden. We eventually left and he said they play futball at night and cricket in the morning between 5-6. Hmm…cool