Mountain Villages

 On Sunday night, we departed for the bus station at 8 pm, boarded a bus at 9:30; rode 7 1/2 hours in a local "coach" toward the north of the state. Arriving at 4 am (it was cold), we waited for our jeep to come to take us 4 1/2 more hours into the mountains. Arriving "ragged" at 10:30 a.m., we checked in to the hotel, "freshened up", and boarded the jeep again for another 1 1/2 hours over rough terrain. The only "public" transportation in to the village was a jeep which would carry ALL the people who could get in OR ON it!  Pastor Raju had always walked into this village. we decided after 2 days in the jeep, that might not be so bad to walk it!

Unprepared for the cold of the mountains.