Sunday, September 16, 2007

Himalayan Adventure III

Since we still had some time left from our leave, we thought of making the best use of it, and visiting another place in the area which was still accessible. The only option turned out to be Kedarnath. Although there is a road that goes to Kedarnath from Chamoli, we were advised against using that one, since that was not so well maintained, and could result in long delays if we got stuck there. We were advised to go back to Rudraprayag, and take the national highway from there.


We stopped at another waterfall/landslide on the way, which we had crossed hurriedly on our way up. We found these rocks particularly interesting – the one word they brought to our mind was – Muffin!!



We were stuck in the way due to yet another landslide. Although they gave us a lot of bother, they also gave an opportunity to take in beautiful sights at leisure.



Amid all of the chaos, we also managed to have a flat tire. While the driver was busy replacing the tire, some of the people played a game of throwing a rock farthest in the valley.



We retraced our steps (or treads, rather) to Rudraprayag, and followed the course of Mandakini this time. It was quite dark by the time we reached Guptkashi, where we stopped for the night. The debacle of the planned tour had made the mood as dark and gloomy as the clouds!


4 comments:

Pijush said...

Well the journey took another interesting direction; Lovely Landscape pics.

Cuckoo said...

Good going. Small posts with lot of lovely pics and good detailed narration.

Keep it up.
Note-I might not comment on every post... quite busy. :-)

Anonymous said...

WoWWW...some rally AWESOME shots as usual and it was lovely reading the description....Nice post!

Sigma said...

@Pijush: Well, you could think it was an interesting turn :-)
From my perspective, it was quite unwelcome. I had been wanting to go to VoF for ages ...

@Cuckoo: Thanks. I think it is easier for me, as well as for the people who might be interested in reading my blog :-)
Busy ... hmmm ... everyone seems to be affected by the same malady! :-P
Hope yours get cured soon :-D

@Kalyan: Thanks a lot! Watch out for more in this space !! :-D