Leaving Kedarnath To Badrinath
View as we were on the way to Badrinath ..a route via Chopta, a location at 19,000 feet. Nice people.... Buffalo bath ...(mandi kerbau) a fresh water from the melting glacier ..... Near to Chopta .....
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The Melting Glacier
The Melting Glacier from the Himalayas from the above is the source of the river...
Reaching the Top of Kedarnath (12,000 ft)
As we were on top ..... This (one of the 12 Jothylingam) Shiva Temple was said to be build during Pandavas time (Mahabaratham). This is the Kedarnath Temple. A sathu at the temple... One of the peak ..taken with a 200mm zoom lens The Glacier path.... You have to be there to experience the truth.....
On the way to Kedarnath
What it takes to be a sathu....? I notice many of the sathus (not commenting on this photo) are just a normal person that wears a yellow/orange/maroon coloured robe. But where are the real sathus? Meeting all the japas/tapas/sadhana requirements and in the state of a sadhu in their own way? I can see many still lives in the material world and being attached to it, or maybe they are actually normal persons wearing it to generate income? A sathu celebrating his/her birthday? But i was told that when a person is accepted to that state...it is a spiritual rebirth and is considered to have died. Confused.... The real sathus mainly lives on the mountains and deep in the jungle but some lives among us too. What it feels to be a sathu / what it feels to live like/as them ..........? Some use the service of these nepali man to carry them for Rps3000.00 some walks...... Some take horses to the top .....for a fee of Rps800.00 two ways and some gets a piggy back on their father for free.... l...
Ascending to Kedarnath from Gaurikund
One of the first view as we were going up... I could not take all the water falls as i had limited space in my memory card. I had to work within the 4GB CF card space that I had. I had to leave my computer in Rishikesh considering the roughness of the journey As we were ascending from Gaurikund (1982m) to Kedarnath (3583m) on horses (one of us went by foot) on a 14Km path. We were welcomed by the beauty of the hills and water falls and rivers and sunrise, birds eagles and the nature itself. When I went there 2 years back by the time i reach the top the cloud has covered the hills. But this time it was as clear as the open sky and the great WHITE HIMALAYAS was so beautiful beyond words. that's why i said the pictures did not speak the truth...the truth of the beauty of himalayas.... you have to feel and see and experience it to really know it...... This is the question for me to ...why am I going the the same place again and again?