In 2009 we
had been to Char Dham yathra in uttarkhand. While returning from Badrinath, we
came across a board 'Valley of flowers 17Km'. After looking at it we wanted to visit that place. From that
moment when ever we came across the word‘valley’, my wife was very keen to
know more about it ……Once in her office during lunch hour her colleagues were
discussing about the ‘valley of flowers’ and thats how it became a strong reason for us to
visit ‘VALLEY OF FLOWERS’.
Here are our
journey details:
July 21, 2012: At
5.05PM we went to Delhi from Bangalore by flight, we reached Delhi at 7.25 PM.
From New Delhi railway station our night journey started to Haridwar.
July 22, 2012: We
reached Haridhwar at 4.10 AM.
At 5.50 AM
we took a bus heading towards Badrinath.
On the way
we came across Rishikesh - Dev Prayag–Srinagar-RudraPrayag–KarnaPryag-Nandaprayag–Chamoli-Pipalkoti and finally at 6.10PM we reached Joshimat.
At Joshimat, uma's colleague’s friend Dinesh Uniyal helped us by providing accommodation
and arranged a guide with us.
July 23,2012: At
6.20AM we took a jeep towards Govind ghat. By the time we reached Govind
ghat, it was 7AM. We had breakfast there
and we took rain coat, a bamboo stick for support and started to Ghangaria at 8AM.
We enjoyed our journey with beautiful nature and reached Ghangaria at 4 PM.
There he
arranged accommodation for us, next morning we started trekking towards VALLEY OF FLOWERS at 7 am. Here is some( huge)
photographs taken while trekking from Govind ghat to valley of flowers via Ghangaria.
View from Govind Ghat (1828m)
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Govind Ghat
Pulna Village
Lakshman Ganga River, Govindghat to Ghangaria.
natural chilled mineral water good in taste too
Ghangaria.(3048m) 14 km from Govind Ghat (photo taken while trek towards Hemkund Saheb)
Valley of Flowers (photo taken while trek towards Hemkund Saheb)
River Pushpawathi, Valley of Flowers
From here Valley of Flowers starts (3352-3658m)
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Bellflower. Campanula latifolia
Meadow Cranesbill. Geranium pratense
Geranium
Huckelia blue
Huckelia blue
Huckelia white
Queen of valley of flowers "Blue Poppy " Meconopsis aculeata
cypripedium orchid ( ladies slipper)
Potentilla atrisanguinea, Himalayan Cinquefoi, Vajardanti
Pleurospermum candollei
Angelica Archangelica, Holy Ghost
Rhodiola Heterodonta
River Anemone
Anemone Tetrasepala
10 comments:
Wonderful Sir....Thanks for sharing...
Lovely Photo blog, this inspires me to visit this place :-)
I could almost feel the chill at the place. Nice collection of pictures.
nice pictures ..!! thanks for sharing ling.. regards,sachin
Beautiful blog. Excellent images and the information.
I felt as if i was trekking to this wonderland which I missed going this year.
Splendid vistas that encourages one to visit it. Your photography reflects the ambiance, peace, color of the place. Well done.
Nice coverage, would like to see more of the beautiful valley. I have also been planning for last 4-5 years but due to some reason or the other I could not go, now I am out of India for long so it seems the wait will be much longer, wish I could go there
Amazing poppa ... I wish I could have been wid u for dm trek :) but still pics made me feel that I was really present at that place enjoying d nature ... thanks a lot ...:)
Hi there,
This is mind blowing,kind of variety pictures of ghats & flowers tempts me to visits this place...
Awesome, good job brother...
Keep it going...
Regards
Girish
Thanks sir, After long time you posted such a nice blog with all details. We can see this beauty through your camera's eye. which is now not possible, flood spoiled every thing. But because of your sharing so many people can imagine nature's beauty.
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