Amidst the snow, there lies a hot spring -Kheerganga !!

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is rapture in the lonely shored,

There is society where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar,

I loved not the human less, but nature more."

That's pretty much define me.

I am a traveller, photographer and a Trekker by passion and software engineer by profession.

I love the mountains, rivers, waterfalls and everything which is natural.

If there is heaven, it is at Kheerganga.
Where you can see the snow covered mountains, filled with dense forest and hot spring water on the top.

We were 2 software engineer, bored from regular 9-6 job, so during holi weekend 23-27 March 2016, instead of going home. We went for Kheerganga.

We boarded the bus from Delhi by 6:45 and reach Bhunter by 9:00 A:M in the morning.
And from Bhunter, it is 2 hour to reach Kasol.

  

Day 1 :-

 
As we were tired, so we took a break at Kasol and stayed at Old Kasol, coz it is very cheap in terms of hotel rooms.

Well for a traveller it is very important to save penny and spent it wisely.

Here is the Details of a guy - 

Name - Vishal

Mob : 91-9816733211

Cafe - Danyal Cafe 

The people are very nice and always there to help you in case of any issue.

Here are the few pics :)

The Parvati Valley is so serene in the evening, you can listen the waves even from anywhere sitting in the valley and do Check out the Momos stand, that stood middle of the Old Kasol and New Kasol on the bridge.

Day 2 :-

After waking up in the morning it's time to catch the bus.

Please note the first bus runs by 7;30 A:M from the bridge and next by 9:00 and then by 12:00. So plan accordingly.

We just have our breakfast by 7:35 as unaware of the fact that we missed our first Bus and waited for the next one to come and if you are in hurry then you can board a private cabs, which will cost you 1000 Rs per person, which is not fine as per traveler.

So we board the bus and during the way to Barsheni, we came across beautiful views, just 2-3 kms ahead there is a Sikh holy Temple, Gurdwara Shri Manikarn Sahib Ji, where you can have a big structure of Shiv Ji and hot water sulphur bath.

But we stopped at Barsheni, which is the last stop before starting Trek for Kheerganga and had a lunch, before starting trek. 

From there you can also go for Tosh, if you want to have some Hash and Cannabis Time, but we went for Trek.

     

So from Barsheni we started our trek by 11:00 AM in the morning. As we were going upwards the view was becoming more spectacular and breathtaking, the waterfall was adding more charisma to the dense forest.

The first 6 KMS were mixed of steep curves but after the Bridge, the trek becomes more steep and difficult.

For refreshment we were stopping and filling the bottle with bone chilled water and splashing on the face.

Here are the few pics :)

There are few Cafe on the way, where you can have Maggi, Lemonade, Aloo Paratha.
While trekking i was just falling in love with the nature, as it was so captivating.
After 5 hours by 4:00, we reached the heaven. 

After reaching there, finding place to stay was a tough task, coz there were 1000 + people from across the world, so one of us stayed in baba ki kutiya and other one was searching, and we met one guy who was high and asking for some hash or weed, but at that time we were having 1.5 bottle RUM, thanks to Old Monk, which saved us and we got the place to stay. 

 Here are the few pics at the top :)

                       The place where i stayed till we got the camp to stay.

During the night we had a bonfire with the camp owner and he was so high, that he even don't know, hou much he had. We just have few pegs of Old Monk.

As said, Old Monk is never old and it is require to survive in the cold temperature of the mountains and after that we slept like , we haven't slept for ages.

 

Day 3 :-

 

After 15km Trek, its time to lessened out the tiredness from the body, our morning was welcomed by light drizzled rain and we step out for hot water springs, which is just near by Kartikiye ji Cave at the top.

 Here are the few pics  :)

 

After 2 hr of hot spring, we finally sayed bid adieu to Kheerganga, it was really hard to come back from that place.
But we ll visit again, so we start our Trek towards Barsheni by 11:00 and at some place it is getting tough, rather than climbing.

Here are the few pics  :) 

The last bus which run from Barsheni to Kasol is by 5:00 P.M, in the frequency of 1hr, so plan your Trek accordingly, it took 3 hrs to come down and from there we went back to Kasol, and last bus which run from Kasol-Bhunter is 6:30 P.M, we were lucky to get and we went back for Delhi next from Manali.

Have a great Trek Guys :)