Category: Travelogue
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Kedarnath Journey : Part 3
If you haven’t read previous parts, please use these links kedarnath-part-1, kedarnath-trip-part-2. Getting to the Accommodation I followed Maama who walked swiftly through the narrow lanes near the temple premises; probably he had explored quite a lot in such a short frame of time, I thought to myself. As we reached the other end, he…
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Kedarnath Trip : Part 2
This post is a continuation from the previous part 1 of the trip. Some point(7 km from Kedarnath) Only 15 mins after we started again that we had to stop and take shade under a roof along with many others, trying to protect ourselves from the heavy rain. What a blessing it is to witness…
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Kedarnath Yatra: Part 1
Jun 13, 2019 Exactly 6 years and two days ago, more than 5000 people lost their lives and about 1 million were left stranded. Kedarnath was devasted! Heavy floods and massive landslides had shook the state of Uttarakhand. Families were torn apart, several went missing, never to be found again. The incident must have bruised…
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Night Trek to Rajgad Fort
“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves“. These lines are apt for every ruler who had captured this mammoth fort which spreads in all directions. Shivaji the great ruled Rajgad for more than 25 years during the Mughal era in India. No wonder that the historians attached the epithet “great” after his name which…