Archive for August, 2014
My alarm woke me up at 130am in the morning. Feeling tired and excited at the same time, I stuck my head out of the tent and saw the milky way on the other side of the sky and lights from head lamps trickling up the slopes beside it. This was it.
Taken right after dinner. I was terribly hungry after the almost 9 hour hike up base camp at 2600m. Muscles that I never knew I had cramped up and legs went jelly. That night, I requested for double the serving of dinner and finished them in half the time. That was when I heard someone outside saying ‘look at the stars!’. I crawled out of my tent and quietly went ‘wow…’.
Due to a change of plans, we camped under the canopy of trees instead of the edge of the crater, overlooking the lake. But that didn’t dampen our spirits as most of us came out to enjoy the last night out in the wild with a round of Bintang for everyone. When I looked up, the Milky Way was just right there, in the middle of the opening.
Taken at pre dawn on my last day on Gili Trawangan. For some reason, I woke up on my own at 5am and decided I should take a walk and perhaps catch the sunrise. When the first light hit the peak of Mount Rinjani, it brought back the days old memories when I was up there, watching the sunrise from the slopes. It was beautiful.
…and this is where I climbed.