The bhataktiatma : Travelogue of a wandering soul

  The summer temperatures were breaking all the records , even at places where its too early to be summer. Its been two years since covid , I haven’t had a chance to trek in the Himalayas , desperately needed to be in mountains before another covid wave hits us. As usual the go to place was the Indiahikes website and in no time I had successfully registered for Ali Bedni Bugyal trek. Rishikesh : The lost city I had very fond memories of Rishikesh from my previous trek visit , hence had planned to land in Rishikesh two days before. A convenient flight to Dehradun and shared cab with fellow trekkers whom I met on pre paid cab counter was the end of luxurious travel , Google map was showing dark red “ This is usual situation on weekends sir , I will drop you as far as I can but then onwards you are on your own” our taxi driver added to our agony. Driver was right , we had to be dropped at the start of the main city itself , long queues of vehicles were ahead of us moving at snails pa...

“with house nowhere, I belong everywhere” I was eating through the pages of “The shooting star” by Shivya Nath, experiences of modern day digital nomad and her travel throughout the globe when pilot made announcement of landing on Chandigarh airport.   Flight from Pune to Chandigarh was through cloud and turbulences and I could see the reason why, when we landed in Chandigarh, murky river and water filled fields were sight which I was not used to seeing in north Indian city at this time of the year, we knew our trek is not going to be rain free. “Depression has been formed in Indian ocean causing untimely heavy rains” Vikram supplied the information, rainfall pattern had been weird this year otherwise this late into the September we should only be getting clear sky and warm afternoon up in the hills. We were in Chandigarh and on the way to Shimla for our Buran ghati trek with Indiahikes, trek rated as one of the most beautiful meadows trek, but with weather like this we...