I finally caught up with Kaushal and Upamanyu and while they contemplated a paratha break, I decided to keep walking (thinking that a break would be difficult to recover from).

Then, of course, I came across this little brook, happily babbling down the green hillside, skipping over pebbles and jumping over little rocks. It was already three hours on, and I finally stopped thinking about number of hours and just sat down, washed my face, hair, had a cool long drink, and now I am lying down and watching the sky, the mountains and feeling the wind. Tranquility is this.