Travelogue

I got up early and went straight to the Bus stand to get the ticket. But alas, there was a huge line, and only a few could get the ticket. Now I had to plan something alternate. The earlier night I had enquired that there are many Max that go to Srinagar, and from there we can get another Max to Kedarnath. There were 3 more boys from Calcutta, who were also like me didn’t get the ticket. So I told them that we should go to the Max Stand. On reaching we reached the office and enquired for a max till Kedarnath. After consulting amongst themselves, one of them said “I will charge Rs 7000.” We consulted amongst ourselves and said “ok, we will be in an hour, after freshening ourselves and having breakfast”. So I rushed to my room. Meanwhile my family were ready. I too got ready quickly and then we all went for breakfast. After quickly gulping on it, we had our Rucksacks on our back. I instructed my wife to wait with the kids near the bus stand and I would go and get the Max here. So...

4 th June 2013 After spending night at Bhojbasa, at Rambaba's Ashram, got up at 6am. After finishing our morning chores, we had a wonderful Suji at the Ashram. We departed from the Ashram at 7am. Again we treaded carefully between Bhojbasa and Chirbasa, as there are few land slide areas. We reached Chirbasa at 9am. After resting for an hour and having some breakfast we back on the track.   We were enjoying the stupendous surrounding with huge snow capped Himalayas on both sides. We reached the first check post by 12.45 in the noon, at were at Gangotri at 1330hrs (1.30PM). On reaching Gangotri we paid our guide/Porter Rs 1200. We also collected our baggage from the cloak room managed by the hotel where we were residing. I instructed my family to have lunch and I went to enquire for a bus to Uttarkashi. I was told that there is a bus to Uttarkashi at 2.30pm. So I came back quickly and had my food. We collected our Rucksacks and were at the bus stand which is just a few meter...