Day 10

This morning we were ready to move at 8:30 am. We moved to Village Mana just three kms from Badrinath. It is the last village of India. There we saw Bhim pul, origin of Saraswati river, Ganesh Gufa and Vyas Gufa. We spent some time with local persons and army persons to know about this place. We started back journey to Gobind ghat, as this was the staring point for Hemkund Sahib Trek. We reached Gobindghat at 2:00 pm. We took our lunch there and started for GobingDHam at 2:30 pm. The trek was very pleasant. We enjoyed very much on the way. We reached GobingDham at 7:50 pm. The weather was very chilled. I faced the problem of AMS. There were very good arrangements by sangat for medical aid, stay and food (all free of cost). We got issued 4 blankets each and had to sleep in open varabdha.

@Bholabhai: I am enjoying reading through your short and crisp logs. Thanks for sharing all this, with us.

Rajesh Bhai, its pleasure reading the writeup and relishing pics, lovely anand aa raha hai

Seriously Bhola Bhai's trip log is the most raw form of travelogue... beautiful to read and amazing pics to see. Bhola bhai tussi great hoo

Thanks a lot to all of you for the appreciation and encouragment.

Day 11
In the morning we started for Hemkund around 5:30 after a nice tea with biscuits served at Bhandara (During this trip I found that bhandaras are the best place to find fresh n good food). The last 3 kms trek was made by cutting the snow. It was very nice experience. At some places sewak were helping the pilgrims to cross the narrow way. We reached Hemkund sahib at 9:00 am. We took bath in Ice chilled water which freeze us. But also made us fresh. After we praued Ardas at gurudwara and pooja at Lakshman Temple. Now it was our time for fun in ice. We enjoyed a lot. We started our back trek at 11:00 am and reached at Gobind Dham at 12:30 pm took lunch there and again started at 1:15. We reached Gobind Ghat at 5:30. We decided to go down a few kms towards Joshimuth. We reached Joshimuth at 6:15 pm. I collected my cell phone from Kolkata man. We again moved a few kms up to Pipalkoti and stayed there in a hotel (name not remember). Dinner was ok. I decided my self while on the bed that I will do rest of 535 kms (220 from pipalkoti to Rishikesh and 315 from Rishikesh to Hisar.

Day 12

It was a complete travel day. We started at 5:00 am and reached Rishikesh at 4:00 pm. We took only two breaks on the way one for morning tea around 7:00 am and 2nd for lunch around 11:00 am. We faced a big Jam on the way because on land slide as it was raining all the way. But we managed to cross it before anybody else. See our luck when we crossed the slide area it was again very heavy slide there. God known when the others crossed the road. At Rishikesh Anil and his partner refused to go further as they were tired. But we had to join duty on the next day. So we 4 decided to continue with the due consent of Anil and his partner. We reached Panipat at 10:00 pm. We took our dinner and rested for a while. At last we reached Hisar (My home towm) at 2:45 am. I took bath and had a tea with my father. I briefed the whole journey before my father and went to bed at 5:00 am after fixing alarm for 8:30 am. I joined my office on the same day. But other three could not because of tiredness.

Dear friends this T-logue is now complete. Thanks for the support and encouragement.
Here are the pics for last 2 days



































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Good log bholabhai. I have one request for you. Can you please list your itinerary day by day, so that it will help us in future?

wow, bathing in that ice cold water is an amazing experience Rajesh bhai i know, its like millions of needles piercing your body
excellent travelogue bhai

Thanks a lot Sir Ji !! As suggested the needful has been done in first post. It also goes here like this.

Day to Day treval / trek plan
Day 1 : Hisar-Hardwar-Dehradoon.
Day 2: Dehradoon-Kempty Fall-Barkot-Janki Chhatti.
Day 3: Janki Chhatti-Yamunotri-Janki Chhatti (Trek)
Janki Chhatti-Barkot-Uttarkashi
Day 4: Uttarkashi-Harsil-Gangotri
Gangotri-Bhojwasa (Trek)
Day 5: Bhojwasa-Gomukh-Bhojwasa-Gangotri (Trek)
Gangotri-Bharon Ghatti
Day 6: Bharron Ghatti-Uttarkashi-Chourangi Khal- Ghansyali.
Day 7: Ghansyali-Tilwara-Gourikund
Gourikund-Rambara (Trek)
Day 8: Rambara-Kedarnath-Rambara-Gourikund. (Trek)
Gourikund-Ukhimuth-Chopta
Day 9: Chopta-Chamoli-Joshimuth-Badrinath
Day 10: Badrinath-Mana-Gobind Ghat
Gobind Ghat-Gobind Dhaam (Trek)
Day 11: Gobind Dhaam-Hemkund-Gobind Ghat (trek)
Gobind Ghat-Joshimuth-Pipalkoti.
Day 12: Pipalkoti-Rishikesh-Hisar.

Although I am a quite old man now but I will think the same in Kedar Taal also

amazing Bholabhai keep it up... seriously hats off to you

BHola bhai..seriously maja aagya...I enjoyed each and every line of your log.

love your spirit Rajesh babu you act as a motivator...
the itinerary you posted, will prove tough for many :P
amazing stuff Bholabhai...

Good Going Bhola Bhai...

Shiva ! Thanks
Thank you
Thanks a lot Tilak bhai.
Sir Ji !! thanks