Thursday, September 11, 2008

Chandrashila

It was early in morning when we woke up to this view..... Thats the Haathi Parbat....
we set off to Chandrashila ... after a cup of tea.....
A close up of Haathi Parbat above
Below is the haathi parbat on left and Teen Mala on right
Below from left to right...Kedar Dome, Bhagirathi Sisters in between and then Baandar Poonch..
Thats Neelkant...
and this is Sheru.. who came along with us all the way to Chandrashila.....
More of the Gharwal Himalayas.....
The Chaukhamba Peak...
More of Chaukhamba & others...
a few 100 meters from Tungnath temple
Up there.. the tallest of the lot is Chandrashila.......
Above: The alpine institue for study of herbs
Below: Tungnath Temple...
heading upto Chandrashila.. get to see the other side of the Valley....
the weather really got bad wen up there... and it started raining again.... after clickin some pics we had to return bak to the base......
Sheru and Pankaj up there ... i followed him later.... Shubo was waiting for us on the main trail....
shouting out or names... i think he was a lil scared... cos of the dense fog....
we moved down back towards Chopta....had a fabulous lunch.... and yup Manchow Soup... the guy made it by himself... n not Knoor... n wat amazing it was... it was the yummiest thing of the trip.....after lunch we left straight for Haridwar.. to take a train back to Delhi....
On the way we clicked a lot of snaps......

At the end of the day...i was so happy... 2 days two treks... life looked set.....

then returnin back to office is the toughest thing yu can do to yourself... trust me..... but cant help it... tats life.....