Rediscovering -Mukteshwar
I had visited the place twice before last time during the autumn of 1997-98, its been a long wait.
It was decided suddenly, a trip to "Mukteshwar" for an official meet, I grabbed on to the offer.
Till the day i kept on dreaming about the place, guessing with open eyes how i would find it.
Then the big day came.
28th Jan 2012- We that is Me , Arvin Bappa and the entire team boarded the cars to Mukeshwar.
I was so excited that I could not even realize that we have passed the lake of Bhimtal, i barely had a glance of it , for i was too focused , Mukteshwar I was coming.
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Mukteshwar now is dotted with Resorts fortunately a lot of it is a reserved forest.
We checked into Shree Hari Resorts which is owned by one of my friends and his brother looks after the resort, beautiful location, clean rooms and excellent tasting food.
Had a delicious Lunch then went for a small trek, Mukteshwar has one of the most dense forests at Uttrakhand and thanks heaven nearly all of it is "Reserved Forest".
Lot of treks are available , we took the nearest one, it was decided that we would trek for 1 hour and then return back.
We soon found ourselves surrounded by dense forests, wild animals are in plenty and one can see lot of tracks.
I only hoped that the boys would have kept a low profile as the noise would have certainly scarred away any game, couldn't get any pics but yes as expected the landscape was awesome, forest presented a lot of shades to choose from.
Having completed the Trek in exactly 3 hours, 1 hour behind schedule, it was time to head back .
Surprises were not over for the day, our Host Siddharth the owner had made arrangements for a nice Bonn Fire, surely we wouldn't have liked to stay indoors and the fire gave us respite from the cold outside, it was freezing cold and not at all possible to stay away from the fire.
It was awesome, however at around 12 AM we all dozed off.
Next morning after the breakfast, I and Arvin Bappa decided to quickly visit Chauli ke jali, a rock face at Mukteshwar and thanks god we did,for the place has some awesome views.
The woods are lovely dark and deep,
But i have promises to keep,
shall return again before i finally sleep.
Surprises were not over for the day, our Host Siddharth the owner had made arrangements for a nice Bonn Fire, surely we wouldn't have liked to stay indoors and the fire gave us respite from the cold outside, it was freezing cold and not at all possible to stay away from the fire.
It was awesome, however at around 12 AM we all dozed off.
Next morning after the breakfast, I and Arvin Bappa decided to quickly visit Chauli ke jali, a rock face at Mukteshwar and thanks god we did,for the place has some awesome views.
The woods are lovely dark and deep,
But i have promises to keep,
shall return again before i finally sleep.
