Day Three - This not your travel magazine type story. This is about the real experience of trekking in the Himalaya with all the quirky mishaps that could possibly happen on a ten day trek. Here you can read about day one. It is part three of ten parts. Enjoy!
DAY THREE: WILD MAN AT THE DOOR
The next morning our gang mulled over the useless map again as a symbolic gesture of planning. Rather then go back up the same valley we had just come down the day before, we choose an obscure and rarely traveled path up the ridge above.
Cultural myths from a time past live on in today’s world.
Vanuatu is a series of isolated tropical islands inhabited by a people
who have passed down stories and tradition in oral form for many
generations, keeping alive their traditions and culture.
On the island of Ambrym there is a large rock, named Pouviaserole. The
locals say it was a monster that once was the guardian of the sacred
Olal Bay. According to tradition Pouviaserole, or Guardian, was a huge beast with
the appearance of something between a savage dog and a wild boar. In
the middle of its head there was a large horn.
Cultural myths from a time past live on in today’s world.
Vanuatu is a series of isolated tropical islands inhabited by a people
who have passed down stories and tradition in oral form for many
generations, keeping alive their traditions and culture.
On the island of Ambrym there is a large rock, named Pouviaserole. The
locals say it was a monster that once was the guardian of the sacred
Olal Bay. According to tradition Pouviaserole, or Guardian, was a huge beast with
the appearance of something between a savage dog and a wild boar. In
the middle of its head there was a large horn.
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