Pandauke - the midst of nowhere
The real journey began the next day. We woke up very early to anticipate the 10-hour walk we had to go through to reach Wo'onsa. But since it had been raining all night, all the roads in Pandauke were flooded. We had to use motorbike first to reach another village called Pu'umbotoh and started walking from that point. However, no motorbikes could go through the flooded road and so we had to wait till about 10 o'clock before the road became less flooded and we could mount the motorbikes. It was the scarriest motorbike journey I'd ever had in life. For two hours we went through all these off-road routes: rivers, sandy hills and very very narrow pathway right beside the cliffs. We had lunch at Pu'umbotoh and around three o'clock we began the walk. We had to walk through very very muddy paths and sometimes through rivers too. After an hour or so, we began walking through the jungle. It was a very difficult journey. I especially hate the mud which makes everything so much harder plus the mud smelled like pigsty. And because we started the journey late, we didn't reach Wo'onsa that night. We're stranded in the middle of the pitch black jungle. Luckily we found an open hut and so spent the night there - feeling cold, hungry, and very miserable. One of my friends brought a satelite phone so we made a few phone calls telling our family and friends that we're okay and no need to worry because we're still alive and not lost though we're in the midst of nowhere
