fanatastic trip - day1

On sat after the holy dip in haridwar early in the morning we sat out for rishikesh from where we had plan to goto Neelkanth! After having tea-breakfast we started our voyage to Neelkanth which is 11km of trek with a steep climb up the hill...

It was fantastic journey on the hill...steep climbs...lovely pathways...heavy bag...some monkey and langroos...beautiful sceneries while looking down...and we managed to reach there in the afternoon which must be feat in itself...

And after the darshan of holy shrine of neelkanth we started out journey back to rishikesh...forgot to mention we'd great lunch there...aloo parantha size of big thali and costing only Rs 12 with curd...needless to say we cud have only one even at that time when we were so hungry...

And we were even faster going down and I thought we'd be back in rishikesh in less than 2 hours...but maybe we were destined for some more fun...so, we decided to goto laxman jhula instead of ram jhula from where we had come...and voila! that road extended our foot-journey by only 5-6 kms...and I think we must have walked some 30kms or so on that day...We met a nice Swiss(?) old man there...and we had a nice brief chat with him...

Back in rishikesh we found a nice dharmshala which has such nice sofas and good hard bed...And after a fantastic dinner at chotiwala...we spent some time on ganga river bank...we went to our room and had a really good sleep, knowing that tomorrow another beautiful awaits for us...