The most arduous trek of the weekend was on our second day when we made the steep climb from our resort up to the lookout at Tiger Hill. Denise had the ingenious idea of wearing the same clothes that had gotten so disgusting with sweat from the day before. We all followed suit and were thankful we had, since a fourth of the way to the peak that was our destination I’m pretty sure we were all once again drenched in our own perspiration.
Once we reached the lookout that sits atop Tiger Hill, I had to take a few minutes to catch my breath and drink as much water as I could justify rationing myself right then (considering a good deal more trekking we had planned for the day). The view in all directions was spectacular, but true to my usual form I only took a few photos of it and didn’t really like any of them. I was more interested in the plateau itself: the local people who ran a small shop or two and were making lunch, the goat that wandered about, resting in the shade and eating bits of grass from time to time, the colorful swing that Catie found, and most photographically alluring of all – the men who were working on the foundation for a new structure next to the existing lookout.
Photos taken in Bandarban, Bangladesh on October 31, 2009.
