Boxing day also had a unique Bangladeshi tinge to it, but was in contrast a calm and relaxing experience for all the volunteers who went. Arranged by Michael and Philip’s host dad, a group of team 79 were quite spontaneously whipped off to Sitakundu to a beautiful national park. The area, protected by the government and rightfully so was full of towering trees, immense rock faces, flowing waterfalls, but most importantly…silence.
Filled with the sounds of nature instead of car horns or election chants the hills were welcomed by the previously overwhelmed volunteers. We even got the rare opportunity to exercise and felt suddenly in our element scrambling up muddy cliffs, through vertical bamboo forests and battling the jungle as Piers proclaimed it to be!
Photographs just wont do the area justice but heres a little taste;
