The tale of Conquering Rice Rock Ridge
AKA Being Conquered by it ;)
When seated on the Holt’s veranda the view of the
surrounding hills is beautiful, at least in the rainy season when all is green
and lush, the dry season might be a different story, will let you know!
Most of the hills
are covered in trees, but this one hill, the one we have dubbed Rice Rock Ridge
has some large rocks at the top, with light green rice growing all around. It
is quite pretty.
The chicken coop is in the foreground. This is the only hill
with rocks scattered on the side, it looks like someone just tossed the rocks
into place.
Holly and I had
talked about climbing this hill to see all of the village below, we thought it
would have to be a great view.
On the 5th of October, at 8:30 a.m the fun began.
Alfred was our tour guide, and he proved to be a pretty good one!
But we were in for
a surprise before we began to even ascend the hill, we had to cross the river
to get there! I had briefly wondered about this, but figured Alfred knew away
across. I was correct he did!
Only it was through the river, not around or over it! I
forget the name of the river, but the name’s meaning is “Cold”, and that river
was very cold!
Alfred tells us we
have to cross and starts across, so we plunge in behind him and at one point I
did literally plunge into the water. The current got stronger as we neared the
other bank, I stepped wrong and got more of me wet than I had intended!
Once the water was behind us, we began to climb up the hill.
It was rather steep, but we made it to the top without any major incidents.
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there is
nothing like seeing it in person! To the left is the Holt’s abode and off to
the right is Baomahun.
Beautiful place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The descent was
rather difficult, because of the steepness of the area. Not to mention we had a
man leading us, who wanted to take a short cut and got us lost, so we had to
back track!
We made it back to the bottom alive, in under an hour, and
not overly beat up! I only had a few scratches.
It was certainly worth the time and effort to see the view!
To think of all the people down in that village who need Jesus, who is more
precious than all the gold they might ever find!
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Proverbs 16:16
Having thoughts of going up again, we will see!!
Aimée
