Thursday, March 29, 2007

Mission Panchakedar




It was a huge fun for me to find the summer special Doon express with my mother and grandma.They are also with me in the journey but i had a different plan.


After completing final MBBS exam,i was eager to take a long walking in himalaya.I planned for Panchakedar as it is very concise but time taking trekking.And i decided to go solo as it is very difficult to have age,time,money,appropriate friend and same choice at the same time.
We reached Haridwar in afternoon in that summer and after fixing Bholanandagiri ashram i took a chilling bath in Ma ganga, oh i suddenly got all the power.It was so refreshing the i managed a ricksaw to attend the Arti with my mother and 75 yr old grand ma.It was thrilling.Then i shop some essentials like food,medicine etc to finally prepare to get a bus to Ukhimath tomorrow morning.


We take a bus of GMVN and find a old man who is first time coming in kedar valley and very much excited about the view of Himalaya from the running bus.It was exciting for me also as i am also coming here 2nd time after 4yr almost.Mama was in problem with nausea due to journey tremendous hot weather.We take a share jip from the bridge to reach Ukhimath and asked the jeep driver to drop us in Bharat Seva Ashram guest house.In our jeep we had few ever beautiful always smiling local young girls who were very busy to talk to our driver.It is always very fun to journey in share jeep as you always meet few local people that is great part of travel.
But magic starts from here our jeep driver forgot to drop us in Bharat Seva Ashram and directly reached Ukhimath bus stop.What ever may be the cause i did not tried to find the cause as it is the rule of Himalaya don't look back.I suddenly found a bus is standing there with 'Sari' written in the glass. So i changed the plan and decided to go to Sari gaon by this bus.I also found that Ukhimath bus stand very much familiar in that 1/2 hr stay,i found a man rather he found me to advice me on further trekking.He also own the Hotel in Sari gaon jointly with his brothers.I really felt that i got my home there.Ultimately i found my calm total Himalaya village home far from so called tourist crowd of Ukhimath.Tomorrow i will trek 4km to Deoria tal and my mother and grand ma will stay in that village.