End of the trek

Inside the forest, the trail passed some very heavy undergrowth. It was totally covered with moss and lichens and there were ferns and bushes everywhere. Everything was wet due to the heavy rains from the previous days. Even this day, it had been a light drizzle on and off. Many places, we had to almost slide down on the mud path to reach the different levels of the trail. At some places, there were roots of the trees for this and at other places, there were wooden ladders totally covered in slippery moss. At one of the mud slides, I slipped and twisted my knee and at another place, Melinda too slipped and hurt her knee 😁
Both of us had slight pain in the knee but it wasn't bad enough to stop us walking further.
After walking about 15 min inside the forest, the trail ended abruptly. The trail had been washed away completely by the river in one of the previous days. We tried to cross over via alternate paths inside the forest but the jungle was too thick and we had to give up after about 10 min. We turned back to find a nice place to sit and have our food. On the way back, one of the ladders slid down for almost about 2 mts while I was at the bottom rung and Igor on the top rung. Luckily, neither of us lost our balance and were fine and the rest of the group was ahead of us so they didn't have to climb/jump down 3 mts.Read more