Gateway to heaven - Kasol

Before sharing about my trip experiences, it is my humble request whoever visits to Himachal Pradesh, never pollute that heavenly lands.

As from last few years due to commercialisation Kasol has been adversely affected, due to tourism. Please take care of the environment.

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On the way you will come across many signs , graffiti arts etc on the rocks and wall. You can see them in above images.

The place where we were sitting from that you can see the bridge which joins kasol and chhalal and it is breathtaking view. Below I am sharing some images of it.

Last night the minimum temperature went around -2°c. While waking up in morning you can see the mountains are covered through more snow. Sunlight used to hit the Khalga around 9am until then it is really cold outside. Once the sunrays pops out the temperature gets to normal 10°c - 12°c

Later I will also show you how the snow patterns of mountains, how they gradually got covered by snow more day by day.

The morning scenes was brilliant as cafe was looking so beautiful when sunrays hit the cafe , behind mountains and to our adjacent side was Tosh village which is one of the most famous place in Kullu valley.

It took us around 2 hours to reach Pulga. Pulga was really an awesome place as it was silent and meadows. It is not as commercialised like Tosh, Kasol and Khalga.

One more special thing in pulga was the famous fairyland forest. Whole forest is covered with trees having pink color flowers which was like japan only.

After having the breathtaking view we went out for the local cafe and ate Thupka, momos, rice etc
Food was really delicious as it was served hot.

While going back again to Khalga weather got bad as it started to raining and it was heavy one as wind was also blowing too fast and temperature went more down.

But we managed to tackle the bad weather and reached to our cafe at khalga before it got more worse.
In khalga there was not much bad weather but in pulga it was really bad as it rained there for 4 hours.

After reaching Khalga we decided to move out from cafe to camp site so we checked out from there and found out the tents provided by another cafe called as Wildchild adventures.
So we decided to stay there. It was really good as we set up our own tent. After setting up the tent we were really tired then after dinner we took rest as tomorrow was the most challenging trek was waiting for us that is kheerganga.

After having delicious parathas we started our treak to kheerganga which is around 18kms but it is hard and challenging one as it is a lamdslide area too. Path is covered with rocks, bridges, waterfall etc

In kheerganga trek you will find around 4 waterfalls in between Khalga and kheerganga.

We were accompanied with Bagha and shera too :D those are himalayan dogs.
Let me give you a fact these dogs are so awesome that they show you the way to the top and ensure us we reach to the top safely. They help trekkers whoever has lost its way so that they can reach to their camps safely. They are actually the Batman of himalayas❤

In the above images you can see the beauty in between the trek. Waterfalls, trees, cafes, art etc

There is one saying too you have to shout BOOM ! In every 10 mins to let know others that you are still on the right way and not lagging behind.

So after 3 hours of hard sweating trek we reached to our destination Kheerganga.

The place is named as kheerganga because the water here is milky in nature. Local says that this water is used for medicine purpose and if you drink this your whole body pain will go away.
After reaching there we rushed to the kund (Hot water place) Hot water naturally originates from there it is really surprising as temperature there remains around  -5°c - 2°c but the water in that kund is always hot act like geysers. Locals tell that it is originated from Lord Shiv hair that is why it is named as ganga and as the water is milky in nature so place is known as Kheerganga.

After taking bath we went for lunch and started again to go back to camp. One can stay there also if you want but our plan was to return back to camp. Meanwhile we also had a round of Chillum with a local :D

we had to hurry up as we have to reach camp before it gets dark or else we would be stuck.
It took us more 3.5 hours to reach to the camp. We reached around 7:00 pm.

After getting fresh we sat with others and camp owners for some dance, liquor etc to lighten ourselves in that cold night.

At night mountains gets more fascinating as moon light shine on that mountain top covered with snow.

Then we went to gurudwara for offering prayers and sat there for bhajans. After that we went to nearby Ram mandir and local market present there. Manikaran is really a peaceful place as spirituality runs there and sikh people are so generous who help every individuals with food and shelter.
After going through local market we called the day off.

Then after eating street food our bus was there to catch up from bus stop.

This was the end of our trip.

It was really sad to return but it gave us so much memories to cherish upon. Nature teaches us many things we have to just protect it and respect it.

Many people think travelling cost money but it is wrong if you have a bunch of good friends and willingness to go money wont stop you from exploring the beauty of nature.

Meanwhile I just want to share the exact cost also we spent in whole trip it was around 5200/- each person including food , stay and travel.
Yeah it is true under 5000/- it is too easy to travel kasol happily.

As I promised I will show you now the patterns of snow in kullu valley when we stayed there.

I hope this article  inspired each one of you to travel more and explore more.

We had missed Grahan trek and Rasol trek this time but next we will be covering that too.

Keep travelling as you know your limits once you start travelling and start to know yourself in a more better way. :)

Below I am sharing some of the pics which I clicked during thr trip.

Thank you !