Gherelta Lodge

Well, okay. I am really super thankful for the lodge last night. Sitting here in tonight’s hotel. The bathrooms in some places are called 5 star because they actually have holes in the ground. Really, Carley turns on the tap and what comes out? Bugs I repeat: you turn on the water to wash your hands and BUGS come out. So now I’m really thankful to yesterdays hotel. At Gherelta they have bathrooms with running water and the toilet seats are actually attached to the seat. Shocker. Here you pick off the toilet seat, I mean it used to be attached! Gherelta really sticks to the African theme while keeping nice facilities, meals and without turning me gray because of the dust of construction or donkeys kicking you. The view was absolutely beautiful for I actually rose at 5 in the morning to see the sunset. That’s a real shocker for you, seriously. Also I really liked the rock climbing there. Boulders just layed around there, but one was a serious mountain that I climbed with Scott and Carley. It was pretty scary because it was so steep and we didn’t have ropes, especially getting down because you kinda slide down holding your feet down on the cliff hoping you don’t slide to far and tumble off the cliff. Here’s a story for you. I walk out the door of my hut and a donkey is bellowing 10 feet away. I walk up the path a little and a horse is grazing right off the pathway. A few more feet I get water from a well and I realize I’m sharing it with a herd of goats. Weird. The goats go baaaaing away though when I move which is sad because they’re so fun to pet. Along the way I saw a couple camels (which I call camales and they seem to get really mad), a ton of cattle, sheeps and goats, and many super-cute stray dogs. There were also many celebrations and BIG crowds of people, but other blogs talk about that.

So, bye,
JULIA