Uttarakhand: As a tourist

When we reached the Haridwar, I felt that we were in a different land. The holy land or Devbhumi. The sound of the Ganges water was filling sweetness in my ears. The sound became much sweeter as we entered the Hrishikesh.

After Hrishikesh we had entered in sandy Shivalik Mountains. The bends of the roads were swinging me inside the Taxi. I was synchronising myself too with those swings. At some locations I felt diginess. But the beauty and curiosity never ended. Even I compared the Journey of mountains with the journey of love. Both are difficult but have enjoyment and pleasure.

We were following the Ganga  and after the journey of 4 hours we reached Devprayag. The sacred place, where Bhagirathi and Alaknanda meets. From here we ran with alaknada. The still and sandy water of Alaknanda  was showing that river  is not a young. We reached Rudraprag after the Journey of 6 hour. This is the place where Mandakini meets Alaknanda. We reached Guptakashi in night. Next day we were running in Guptakashi Valley. Very beautiful. The snow capped hills at far distance were adding more beauty. After travelling for 1 hour from Guptkashi we reached Ukhimath and then Parkhandi village and met to the sweet people. The life at this location is very hard. You have to be strong to survive there.

In the evening we were in the famous temple of Ukhimath which is knows as winter kedarnath. The Doli of the Kedarnath had  gone one day earlier we reached there.

In the new morning we left the Guptkashi Valley and entered in Chandan Ganga valley. We saw the local sericulture centres on the way, met to farmers and reached at Agstmuni before mid day. There we had taken lunch. For some time we played near Mandakini. We played there for half hour. In the evening we were resting in a under construction resort. It was difficult to predict that we were on the side of Mndakini or over the Mandakini. We passed whole evening in resting over the stones in river. We were in heaven. Very beautiful, really very beautiful. I was dying of that. We slept earlier because we were tired.

Next day we found ourselves in Chpada village 12 km from Rudraprayag. The people of village were very cute. The confidence and friendliness of those people was amazing. The natural beauty of village appeared in evening. We tracked a lot. We were there to Visit the field work done by Navdhanya. We stayed there for one night. We slept early because next day we would have to leave for main Campus of Navdhanya in Dehradun.

The life in Navdhanya campus was easy and better. We stayed there for one complete day. The campus was filled with peace. We recharged our batteries after long tiring journey.  I was feeling as my village. Numerous mango trees were reminding me of real India.

In the  afternoon we were talking to Anil Prakash Joshi at HESCO. He is known as mountain man and had been awarded by Padmashree by Government of India for hi work.  A beautiful natural place. The Cintan Kaksha of Joshi ji was amazing symbol of natural cooling. After that we were in retreating mode and reached Ahmadabad after 8 days. Amazing trip. Really amaging.