Walk to Educate-‘Education Walk’

This year a group of fifteen boys volunteered to keep the trend of what so called ‘Education Walk’ founded by ex trainee teacher Phub Dorji in year 2009. Unlike past were ‘Education walk’ was solely conducted by final year students, this year it was organized by second year students and participated by final year students.


Group of volunteers

After undergoing month long vagarious learning and practices, fifteen boys with support from various organizations took up the journey. It was in midyear break for Samtse College of Education that when rest of the trainees set their journey to respective likely home, fifteen boys set their journey of miles to one of the remotest village of country, Lengzhi, by walk from Drugyel Dzong, Paro.


Packing up for move

It was summer 19th June,2010, with auspicious day to take of long journey. The Director of Paro College of Education opened the way with good wishes to walkers. Amidst of rain, 20-25 kilograms of luggage on each individuals back, we threw our foot on path in every second.


First day Journey

First day journey was ended with taking shelter in Gunyetsawa school were we are warmly received by Royal Bhutan Army personnel and school members.We took two days in Gunyetsawa sharing various topics to students, teachers, army personnel and publics that we are intend to do so. Our second day walk begun from Gunyetsawa at morning 7.00a.m and land up at a place called Thangthangka at 9.00p.m. But our planned route was to reach at place called Soe that we haven’t made it to and took a night at Army base camp. We felt the air getting thinner and thinner as we moved higher and higher and soon some of our friends were caught up with altitude sickness. Thus, team reduced to fourteen members in which one of our friend was sent back due to sickness.


Sickness taking over us


Jomolhari Mountain

Next day we had a short and relax journey till Soe, a place which is the base of mountain Jomolhari where we put up our night in one of the room at BHU. We missed the 28 degree temperature of Samtse in summer when we are just in snow covered place and our sleep in sleeping bag was never peace. Early morning we resumed walk to our last approach to destination Lengzhi. The main source of Paa chhu (Paro river), snow and glacier covering Jomolhari mountain remains down and soon we found on walking over Tsheringgang mountain.


Highest range to crossover: way to Lengzhi

Finally, the perfect view of Lengzhi Dzong from kilometers of distance removed our wearisome journey and soon we found in the premises of Lengzhi.


Lengzhi village.......

Within four nights and three days in Lengzhi School, we have successfully covered our aims, purpose and content of ‘Education walk’.
On 31st June, we felt summer was still alive when we reached back in Paro were its presence can’t be noticed in Lengzhi All it end was on 1st July with review of Education walk and we carried to home the memories to share………………………………………….

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