It was 8th October me and my friends were discussing about kheerganga trek, i was tired of being at home and want visit mountains (my love), but in the end we decided to go rishikesh, we planned that we will start this trip on 12th October in morning by our car...and I don't know how, but this plan was not cancelled 😀
Oh it's 12th October, it's 4am in the morning and my alarm was buzzing i woke up, and get freshed, picked my army and boom, we started our trip from lucknow at 6.00 am in the morning and by the 7.00 pm we reached rishikesh, i drove 500 kms car i was so tired, we were staying at a friend's home, he prepared delicious matar paneer for us, we get served, and he took us to triveni ghat at 9.30 pm, ohh soothing sound of ganges i go to ghat i dip my feet in ganges(river), and believe me it relaxes my whole body my tiredness was gone...then we sleep
We were very exited to see the sunrise from a beautiful sunrise point ( barrage dam), we witnessed awesome sunrise, after walking 5kms of distance by the bank of ganges, and then we came back to our stay and get ready for our rafting our friend has booked 9kms of rafting for us but we decided to extend it to 16kms and we go to our rafting starting point shivpuri we met our guide (deepak) he gave instructions to us we wore our life jackets and we are ready for rafting ohh, rafting experience rapids we swimmed in ganges, after 1.5 hours we stopped at maggi point and we also enjoyed cliff jumping, we witnessed some beautiful deers there after enjoying our journey of 9 rapids our rafting ends and we wanted to do camping that day so we started our trek from tapovan to our camp, and we met some amazing peoples there who are now our friends, we enjoyed bonefire and dance there...
We left our camp that morning and we walked nd trek to neergaddu waterfall, it is situated at very height and we were exhausted by its trek this waterfall is very beautiful, we enjoyed bath there and took maggi and tea ( who missed maggi and tea in mountains), and we left for our stay and we decided to rest that day...
It was our rest day everyone was sleeping and i woke up and go to lakshamn jhula, ram jhula and tasted ram phal, when i was on lakshman jhula fresh air was when i back to our stay we enjoyed breakfast and i picked camera and go to triveni ghat, met some amazing people took a cup of coffee with beautiful views and returned back to stay (lost in streets of rishikesh) and then we start our walk towards Beatles ashram after going there we get to know that Beatles is closed nowadays and then we decided to go to bhoothnath Mandir by chance it was also closed we do a photoshoot there and sights amazing sunset there, and witnessed rishikesh's beautiful arti, and shaking ram jhula we came back to stay and cooked dinner and slept.
We woke up at 5, took morning tea and leave rishikesh for dehradoon at 6.30 i was driving car and the views were amazing i drove first time in hills, (it was thrilling experience) we reached dehradoon at 9 approx and first we go to robber's cave (guchchu pani) here a river is flowing inside a cave it was amazing adventure for us.
We get back from robber's cave at 12 took brunch on the way to shahastradhara and we reach there at 1 pm, shahastradhara is a must place if you are visiting dehradoon.
Below is the picture of shahastradhara
an that night we headed for home.. and our trip was ended by beautiful memories...