Trekking - Day 2

Takeghyang - Melamchi. 2530m
7hrs walking (with lots of breaks)

Our first day of walking was really hard! Scottish mountains don't prepare you for this. Lots of steep climbing in very hot sun.
Stopped for a welcome break (see extra) at a friend of our guide, Dawa. (He knows everyone!) We were served Buffalo yoghurt (revolting) and slices of some sort of huge cucumber (delicious) to revive us.
Hotel Yangrima - very nice, with great showers. Dawa has ordered Garlic Soup for us for breakfast, to set us up for more even steeper climbing. Yikes!!
Father and daughter from the Ukraine staying at the guest house. They're doing the same trek as us in the opposite direction. She says she just wants it to be over - so difficult :(