Bhrigu Lake Trek- The Unfinished Journey

We reached Delhi the next afternoon, it was burning hot as the temperature over there was above 30 degrees. We were then taken to a hotel to freshen up and later depart for our journey towards Manali via a bus. After 3 hours, there was a knock on the door for us to leave. Oh! Those 3 hours went like a “derecho”. Around 5:30 in the evening we departed. The journey was all about everyone singing and eventually knowing each other.

DAY 4

The next day we had to indulge our time and ourselves into some activities like river crossing and rock climbing. We were done with those activities by afternoon, before the lunch time. That day I also made two new guy friends who were going for the same trek.

DAY 6

Then, the next morning as we woke up, we were already short of time as it was the day to start with our REAL TREK. We left in the morning from Manali and we had a short drive till "Kuhlang" and from there we had to start with our walk towards “Moridugh” our first base camp. It was not that difficult as I thought it would be. The weather, the scenery everything was just so beautiful that one could forget about their pain and worries. It was a 3 hour trek but we took almost 4 hours to finish due to our pace of walking. Reaching to the first base camp was a very big achievement for me. It was noon and we had a ritual of collecting woods ourselves for the camp fire as the temperature was always low. Everyone slept early that day as they all were tired and knew the next day wouldn’t be that easier.

DAY 7

The next day, everyone woke up early as we had to commence towards our second base camp which was “Botadugh”. It was a 5 hour trek but as usual we walked in our own pace. Reaching the top of this basecamp was not like a cake walk as it started raining and the whole patch was muddy but somehow we all made it. The view from this base camp was awstrucking.

DAY 8

It was now the main day of the trek. To reach the summit. It was an 8 hour trek. We had to go from "Botadugh" to "Bhrigu" and then return to the Botadugh base camp. The start of the trek itself was not easy, but we kept walking. Though I couldn’t reach till the summit I was happy that I could reach till the base camp. Few of my friends and I waited back till the people of our group could return and we could start going to the base camp. We reached the base camp and indulged ourselves onto some tea and hot “sipping” Maggie till the rest of the batch who went till the summit. It was the last night for us to stay at Botadugh and the next day we were returning back to our first base camp which was at Manali.

DAY 9

It was the last day of the trek. We started walking down from the "Botadugh" base camp. The whole route was a different one. I felt going up was easier than going down. But somehow we all reached by 2 o’clock in the afternoon. That day, we bathed after 3 days and felt like we were born “again". We were given that day to explore Manali with a deadline to reach back to the basecamp. We all left to explore the place by around 5:30 in the evening. We knew that we just had 4 hours in our hand. We didn’t really explore much but were just hunting a place where we could find good food as we were craving for one as we were too bored of eating the food that we kept having since the last few days. We had to walk all the way towards the market due to the problem of not finding vehicles over there. That day, we made each second count and didn’t miss out on anything because we knew it was the last day of the trip. When we reached the base camp we see our guide standing near the entrance and looking at his watch as we were almost an hour late but we really had no guilt as we enjoyed each moment that evening. That night we packed our bags and all fell asleep.

Day 10

The other morning, everyone finished with the last activity which was rafting and headed towards the bus to return Delhi. We left Manali around 4:30 in the evening.

Day 11