The thrills, adventures, excitement and the closeness of
nature, choose them and mix them, add some inner spirit, put some
do-not-disturb vacations and move for some twist and turf-full roads of
Majestic Mountains, bet me, you are going to end up with a rejuvenating trip of
your life.
Story of my first mountain trip was inked in my life
chapter in previous month, preciously
saying in previous month when I had a trip to Vaishno devi Shrine in Katra
district of Jammu & Kashmir. The Holy shrine is actually a cave in the mountains
of Katra where according to mythology a small girl name Vaishnavi hided
and meditated and finally met with her originators, the three original super
powers of this universe Goddess MahaKali, Goddess Maha Saraswati and Goddess Mahalaxmi. The place where she
meditated and achieved her spiritual wisdom and powers is still there. It is a
narrow 25 ft cave where you have to pass by crawling on your knees, sometimes
twisting your bodies but trust me after passing that cave, which is called
GarbhJun these days; you will feel like , you have taken re-birth. Well to feel
that awesome feeling you have to walk uphill around 6 km for Garbjun and 6 km
more for the main temple-bhawan- where the fight between Maa Vaishno devi and tantrik
Bhaironath happened. Ya I know I skipped something. However if you want to know
the full story you can go to Wikipedia.
The thing which I want to tell you is 13 km uphill walk. In 1
word if I want to say then it will be “awesome”. If you start your journey in
evening before sunset around 1-1.5 hr early then you will come across the
beautiful sunset view like this ( ya I was there capturing the beautiful
sunset).
Seeing the gradually painted saffron wall of horizon turning
black and fixing up there little small twinkling stars by nature own hands feel
like totally magical.
While taking a walk uphill for the temple, Katra valley view
in night come as bliss for the eye. It feels like somebody has opened a box of
gem and diamonds and pearls are shining over there. The pavements are covered by blue polymer
sheets which gave a feeling of blue light tube has been decorated beautifully.
As we(me and my partner) were walking uphill night was showing its darkness gradually and so the magic of nature was also flashing its magical wand aesthetically. The moon was shining like the sun (obviously it was a full moon). The trees were taking beautiful shapes in the moonlight, urging me to take some beautiful snaps of their presence and so I did.
And finally when the dawn was approaching and so was our
journey for the temple I took my best shot of the trip. In the white moonlight
with the little glimpse of katra valley in the extreme mid of picture covered
by two mountains in the 1st layer of the picture on which some pine
trees on 1st mountains made this picture astonishingly beautiful.
And then finally the dawn came.
And with dawn we was there at the main temple (which is
called as “bhawan”) . From there the view of katra valley was just heart-touching;
a river flowing through the mountains, the hazy air was making the view magical.
After coming back from the main Vaishno Devi temple we went
for a steeper uphill walk from there to a temple called Bhaironath Temple. It
has been said that without visiting this temple your trip to this holy place is
incomplete. So we were back again on the road with all our gears to ride again
for another milestone up there. Trust me this 2 km walk was nothing as compared
to I walk before even the last 13 km uphill walk I did from Katra to bhawan.
However, the result was worth it. I saw my first ice-mountains of my life.
And there
only I made my mind to come here again.
Yooo baby I am coming againnnn..
Fun Fact :- At the top of mountains I mean to say at bharonath temple you can
watch the Pakistan network capturing by your phone try to latch in on your own
risk . :)
