We left the hotel in Amritsar at 10am to start a 6 hour drive to Dharamsala where we have our base camp. We’re going to be trekking up the Himalayas for the next 2 days! We drove up to 2000metres right by the cliff. It was pretty scary. One of the cars was having problems and started rolling back at one point! The drivers all congratulated each other when they reached the camp and said thank God! The base camp was better than I was expecting. There were 5 bedrooms between the 15 of us, and we had running water and electricity. The views of the mountains from there were brilliant. Especially when the sun set. The guy who was looking after us there was nice. He kept bringing us food and chai. The only downside was that there were insects everywhere! So everyone was pretty scared about how we would sleep that night. And it was a bit cold but it was better weather for hiking. We hung out for a few hours and then went to sleep. I didn’t sleep at all that night! It was freezing cold in the night and I didn’t have good enough clothes for the cold. And we had 4 people in the bed so it was hard getting enough of the blanket to stay warm.