Trek: Day1

We wake up early in the morning, had a semi-hot shower and dressed up for the trek ahead with all the anxiety and eagerness in head we headed for the trek agency office, the walk to the agency made us sweat with all the luggage and layered clothing.We were thinking abt how would our trek in that hot sun???

After depositing the luggage we met our guide made the payment then left for breakfast.Our guide rony was young along with his friend kannu, we were happy as we can have a good rapport as they are of same age as ours.We had a stomach ful breakfast, then boarded the vehicle which will take us to the starting point of the trek.During the journey our guide was explaining about the weather conditions,his village and how the trek is going to be.On the way we had traveled past our guide's village "jagatsukh" where we bought some snacks and coll drinks.The shop owner was rony's cousin, hmmm great to live in a village where you know everyone of them personally.

After that we crossed a bridge and was dropped after gaining some height.There we met our horse men-Vinod Thakur, he was from the same village.Finally we started our trek initial trek was through a small village the path was consisting of steps, we had a great difficulty after some time, we were sweating a lot and were gasping for breath.Then we realized we had the wrong clothing for the wather adn terrain we were in, so we removed all the extra clothing and teared down to a cotton t-short and a jean.

Then slowly we gained speed as we are getting accustomed ourselves for the trek, the previous day hike did not help much but well, its a start.After wlakign for more 2hrs we reached near to the campsite then there was a decision whether to go for primary campsite which is more 1:30 trek ahead and there no water trails on the way or switch to secondary camp site which is 15 mins walk, as its first day we decided to go for secondary.

Finally, we reached our first campsite during the trek, we pitched our tent and got in for soem rest.Meanwhile our guide cum cook started preparing some snacks and tea for us.After a short nap we were in kitchen tent enjoying the ambiance with snacks.

Later we found some villagers on their way to hunt down a bear which is causing trouble for the by messing with their cows, the bear was somewhere in our surroundings and they planned to track it over night and  kill him.

After some times we saw a beautiful sunset through the trees, it was a fantastic ambiance, much more to come ahead during the trek.Later in the night we had our dinner and were involved in a discussion with the crew traversing various topics...listening to the local stories.

We requested rony to arrange for a camp-fire as it was becoming cold as the night progresses, he was very good quickly he collected some big sticks and we  had a warm and beautiful camp fire.After prolonged discussions on various topics we slept late in night thinking of the days trek ahead and whether can we make it or not????


Our first night in the mountains was splendid, serene.........