The whole day of 23rd July was washed away by rains and trekking throughout the day 8, we reached Gunji walking through the picturesque Chhiyalekh pass and the old business town of Garbiyang...
On the seventh day it was a relatively short distance from Malpa to Budhi, but because of uphill climb the trek took time...
Starting early first halt we took at Jipti where idol of Lord Shiva was installed. All along the river Kali we went down and eventually crossed it over. Day end camp at Malpa we reached late. The view sitting beside Kali river was so good...
As usual we started early morning from Sirkha on Day 5. We had to cover 16 km from Sirkha through Rungling top to our final destination of the day at Gala camp. The stone-paved mountain path rose gradually uphill to Rungling top from where it was all the way down to Gala...
On 4th day we started at 6.30 am from Pangu camp carrying packed breakfast. Initially it was a downhill movement through the clouds. We covered about 7 km through downhill and uphill trek to reach the beautiful Narayan Ashram. After an enchanting visit to the Narayan Ashram, we started moving towards Sirkha Camp, our final destination for the day...
On the 3rd day first part of the journey to Tawaghat was by bus and we had to get down with our baggage to start our first trek of the journey to Pangu camp site...
We started from Kaushani and our bus took us to first Baijnath temples. Second halt was Bageswar, lunch we took at Chaukori and ended the second day at Dharchula...
The name of the Nagzira forest is Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve while Navegaon Bandh, or Navegaon dam is the destination twin to Nagzira. Most tourists visit both as did Anindya and his group. But as I knew Navegaon to be mainly a dam-like very large lake with plenty of birds and cheetals, I dropped it. Let me be in undiluted Nagzira forest for the whole period, I decided...
It is the call of the path, of the never-ending journey, heedless of time and space. Without destination, without answers, with only a feeling of being...
These huge sand dunes are formed by heat of the sun and the wind forces and it was fascinating to watch how the fine sand moved under its own weight and flowed almost like water. The camels, carts and people left their tracks on the sand only to be obliterated by the wind in a short while...
