From Gobind Ghat to Rishikesh

We left Gobind Ghat the morning after visiting Hemkunt Sahib. We got up before 5 am and left around 5:30. It was raining and foggy that morning so we felt content with our decision to not stay an extra day to visit the valley of flowers. We had to wrap ourselves and our bags in plastic pullovers to keep us dry.

We literally ran down some of the way and moved at a brisk pace when we weren't running. These next three photos are seconds apart.





About half way down the rain stopped and we had to ditch the raincoats because they were keeping us hot, even the the morning air was cool.
As you can see I took the bigger backpack down as well as up, but if you think Sita had it easy, think again, she was as sore as me at the end of this. I think the way down is what left us sore as we had to use all our leg muscles to resist against gravity and allow ourselves controlled steps. It was atually so gruelling that I'm still slightly sore 5 days later.


Back at the car we left Gobind Dham around 9 am. It took us only 2 hours to get down from Gobind Ghat to Gobind Dham.
After about an hour and a half on the road we had to stop and wait for an hour. The delay was a protest by local villagers to the urge the government to improve their conditions.

One can't complain much about being delayed anywhere in this area as they'll still have great views of the beautiful Himalayan mountains.



I made sure I got at least one photo of one of the many protruding rocks we drove under on this route.
A few more pics on the way to Rishikesh.



The view from the veranda next to our room at our hotel in Rishikesh. It just got dark as we arrived in Rishikesh.