Talking about the Everest Base Camp Trek has become my default option. And a slide show of my Everest Base Camp pictures were featured on Yahoo! India Lifestyle. I still remember this day very clearly. This was the day when we were walking from Dingboche to Lobuje. I woke up around 5.00 am and I was looking…
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Ghangaria to Hemkunt Sahib- Day 3, Valley of Flowers Hemkunt Sahib Trek, Uttarakhand
I was aware that the route to Hemkunt Sahib (4329 meters, 15210 feet) was all the way uphill, the entire 6km of it. But having done the Everest Base Camp in May this year I thought I should be able to tackle it. We had bread omelet for breakfast around 6.30 am and left at 7.00…
Ghangaria to Valley of Flowers- Day 2, Valley of Flowers and Hemkunt Sahib Trek
I used to sleep almost like a log on the Everest Base Camp Trek (apart from Gorek Shep) but no such luck on the VOF trek. I don’t know why every day I would struggle to sleep. The first night at Ghangaria was particularly bad. I woke up at some point with a start, feeling…
Gorakshep, Everest Base Camp Trek
This is Gorakshep, the last stop before Everest Base Camp Trek in Nepal. And what a trek it was! It was at an altitude of 5149 m or 16860 feet. For me that is crazy high. My sleep and food both were messed up! But it was worth it all.
Beautiful Skies at the Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand, India
Valley of Flowers is a beautiful monsoon trek in Uttarakhand, India. The place is a UNESCO World Heritage site too. For today’s skywatch I present the sky from the Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand. It is a very popular monsoon trek in India and though I was a little ahead of the monsoons it was still…
Doing Nothing at Joshimath
Have you ever wondered that it is really difficult to find a budget hotel in India that is clean? I am talking about 1500 rupees per night kind of places. They only come your way if someone recommended you a clean one. After my 10 hour of ride to Joshimath, I stayed at Kamet (name…
I am Like a Broken Record- EBC EBC EBC EBC is all I can Really Say Even Now!
These days all I can think of is my trek to the Everest Base Camp in Nepal. Everyone talks about how difficult it is to reach Namche Bazaar but thus is what I thought after reaching Tengboche! “Gradually after the rest I stumbled across Tengboche and to my lodge. It took me six and a…
Everest Base Camp Trek, Nepal
I decided to put all the links to my day by day account of the Everest Base Camp Trek in one post. It is easy to access them from here and easy to point it out to anyone who is interested in reading it all! Many thanks to all of you who read my accounts…
Mesmerizing Dingboche, Everest Base Camp Trek, Nepal
This is a picture from my recently completed Everest Base Camp Trek! I went to sleep in a brown valley and I woke up in a white one. But it was a very light snowfall and it didn’t affect the trek in any way. The place is called Dingboche (4360 meters, 14304 feet) and it…
Everest Base Camp Trek- Day 11 Namche Bazaar to Lukla
I had told Deepak the last night that I would not get up early as it hardly made any difference to when we would reach Lukla. Namche Bazaar to Luka was also two days worth of going up which we were descending in one day. But as I went to sleep at 8.00 pm in…