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Gaumukh-Badrinath: My Introduction to the World of Riding
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to be continued...
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though I have seen this but still i read the whole intro again.... its beautiful
keep them coming.... Uttaranchal has its own beauty
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Guys, This is a flashback story, which happened some 16 months back.
Near Vikas Nagar
After Vikas Nagar I have started climbing the hills and as I was getting higher clouds were disappearing. I remember at one of the points on hills I just stopped to take a view of the plains from the above, I was just staring though the scattered clouds when I heard a sweet song in Garhwali from behind the bushes and trees on the hills, it was so enchanting and the feeling in the mystic weather can not be described in words. There was a man singing something in Garhwali amidst the pin drop silence.
Before Yamuna bridge
An Abandoned Dam
Riding beside Yamuna river in such a pleasant weather was an added advantage. what a neat and clean blue water was gushing throgh the forests, hills by taking so many strange curves. I was just wandering how this crystal clear blue water becomes all black just in a 300 kms by Delhi.
That is a clear example of how careless we are in preserving the resources even we do not know how to use them 
Another thing that I was totally unaware of was that I was not prepared for the so many roadside waterfalls and nullahs running over the road everywhere, which caused my feet to be wet all the time which later on got infected. I came o know about the condition of my feet after 5 days of my ride when I was in Badrinath. The infection kept on playing hide and seek with me for approx a year.
Had my lunch at approx 1 pm somewhere and moved ahead. As I was getting further the vistas were also getting better and then the valley opened.
There was a very bad stretch of some 15-20 kms which took me more than 1 hours to cross. I was almost dead after doing this. (did not click any photos there)
Some Vistas en-route:
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I had already wasted too much time in clicking pics, so I had to minimize no of breaks so that I can reach Uttarkashi before sunset, because that time I was really scared of driving in hills in night. Somehow I managed to reach Uttarkashi approximately by 5pm.
I have switched on my headlights just a few meters before the hotel. I forgot to mentioned that Tilak sir had already told me that his group (Delhi Bull Riders) will be staying at Shivaling Tourist Complex which is on the way to Gangotri from Uttarkashi, actually it is just a kilometer away from the bus stand. Not let me tell you that this is one of the finest hotel that I have ever been to. The hotel staff is very polite and co-operative. I approached to the hotel boy (Bhagender) and enquired about the room. I got a wonderful room at just 500 bucks. The room was very neat and clean with TV and Geyser. At the backdrop of the hotel there was a gushing Bhagirathi with beautiful green paddy fields on the banks of it.
I did not click any pics in the evening. The picks which I clicked on the next day.
View from my room
The Balcony (shot on Day2)
The view from the top
There is an under construction Hydro power plant which has made the ride a little tiresome otherwise rest of the stretch is quite in good shape. But you will not regret because there is a lot that the Mother Nature has offered here.
Now let me tell you that the ride between Uttarkashi and Gangotri is the best ride that I ever had. And the best of the best ride is riding near Harsil or Dharali. It was a bright sunny day and I had to negotiate with the harsh light effects very badly while clicking with my digicam, whatever my cam was presenting to me, I was not satisfied at all because the place is out of this world and showing such photographs to anyone is nothing but underrating the place.
As I was approaching Harsil, I got a glimpse of snow capped mountains for the first time in my life. And then I felt a very strange feeling within which I just can not describe, as if it was calling me for the ages and now I am there though so late but still at the right place... perhaps this was the moment when I fell in love with Himalayas. Words will not do the justice; let the pictures unleash it as much as they can:
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The huge river bed of white Sand and Snowcapped mountains in the backdrop, just awesome:
My Bike parked away from the River
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Awesome set of pictures!! Too beautiful!!Lonely Rider~
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awesome pics......Ride Hard !!! Ride Safe!!! Enjoy every moment on your machine !!! Cheers....Comment
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Wonderful trip, im spellbound. Really amazing..!! and the pics are a treat in itself and you say that the pics dont do justice to the real sight so i can only imagine how beautiful it will be in real life. I'm hopeing that someday i can travel through these areas, though its a far fetched dream. !!
Kudos to you man !!
Ride safe
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Originally posted by SKSy_Biker View PostOriginally posted by Shivanshu View Postthough I have seen this but still i read the whole intro again.... its beautiful keep them coming.... Uttaranchal has its own beautyOriginally posted by rawpower_87 View PostOriginally posted by daredemon View PostThanks guys.Originally posted by krish2778 View Post
Will try to post remaining part ASAP.
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