We’ve been here for thirteen days now, every day brings something new and interesting. Colin and I are taking two hives, designed for use with Apis cerana, to Jim’s home in the village of Jimigaun in the district of Sankhuwasabha and if fate is kind to us we’ll find a swarm and install it before we leave. We hope to make contact with local apiarists in the area and If we’re not lucky enough to obtain bees we may be able to enlist their help. We’ll keep in touch with our trainee beekeeper over the internet and publish our doings on the blog.
We unloaded our 4x4hired for the day at a place called Tutedeurali and after loading our luggage on a tractor trailer set off for Chauki on foot where we spent the night in a hotel. From there we intended to carry our hives slung under a bamboo so that two men would bear the load and to wear our rucksacks at the same time. In the end and after a long debate we hired two mules and set off carrying just our cameras. I at least ended the day pretty tired suffering from the arthritis in my knees and we didn’t get there until after nightfall. Thank heavens we never persisted in our plan to carry all the gear ourselves. To cut a long story short we spent another day walking - eye popping views, ear popping altitudes!
I’ve been given a day to rest and tomorrow we hope to be visiting a Bee farm, (about half a day’s walk in all there and back). More later.
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