As you will remember, the students from The Hermitage Academy have been preparing for their month away in india for almost 18 months.
The day 8th July finally arrived, I had been packed away in a huge rucksack, along with a tent, sleeping bag & mat, not so many clothes for a month and orthopaedic shoes for the disabled children. My rucksack weighed in at 21kgs, mighty heavy!
I could hear how excited the students were. We travelled from Durham to Heathrow by train and checked in for the 9 hour flight to Delhi. Goodbye England!!!!!
The next thing I knew about was when the rucksack was opened and the heat hit me, I must say i felt very over dressed in my wooly coat! As you can see my new friends, Becky, Lily and Charlotte hugged me and passed me on to Lauren so i could share breakfast with them in Delhi airport. First time i had tried banana sandwiches!
Once breakfast was finished we checked in for an internal flight up to Leh. Leh is in the Ladakh region almost on the border with Tibet, China and Afghanistan.
It was a short flight of 45 minutes and when we landed it was at 3500m high!
Leh is one of the highest airports in the world- we could hardly breathe when we stepped off the plane, the air was so thin and the sun was scorching! This is something we are going to have to get used to! Wow the views were just fantastic, but i did notice there wasn't much vegetation and greenery around, wonder what i'm going to eat for the next month!!
I'm sure my new friends will help me out :)
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