The early morning cloud views were still to good.
Prashant had the guts to take cold water bath, while me and Nitin skipped the same easily.
We were disappointed when Mr Rana told us that porter and tent cannot be arranged from Lohajung, and now shall have to be done from Waan. Still, he was helpful enough to pass on message to Waan and assured us that desired help shall be arranged at Waan.
We hired a jeep to Waan (15 kms away) and set out after breakfast of Aloo key paranthey at Mr rana café .
We reached waan after seeing our driver take sum breaktaking stunts on the route which is just stony and kaccha raasta for all 15 kms. He shud get some medal for doing the ritual everyday :-).
We crossed the Kuling on way and saw the distant Deedna villege and the long view of Ali Bugyal above Deedna villege.
On taxi on way to Wan, we gave lift to 3 ladies who wanted to reach Wan, but ended up giving lifts to few more guys who promprly settled down on top of the jeep !!!
We met Mr. Bugyal (the lone shop owner) at Waan who quickly arranged two porters, rations, tent and utensils and we set out to Bedni Bugyal around 9.30 am.
We are the three trekkers ready and full of energy to take on the world.
There were 5 of us :
Prashant
kamal
Nitin
Inder Singh - porter one
Porter two
Three of us ready to start trek to Roopkund above the Wan river.
We set out climbing up immediately fully aware that it would be difficult trek, full uphill trek for 13 kms till Bedni Bugyal.
This , I am told is a local vegetable absolutely fit for eating !!
Our porter Inder Singh Bisht had to pick up utensils from his home number one ( he had three homes in Waan !!) .
We were tired from uphill climb of 1 km. and needed rest. We had water and few minutes of rest at his home .
Next we took rest at Ran Ki Dhaar – as you can see it’s a dhaar ( meaning plain area ) on top of the hill.
This is one of the top most points of Waan and we were delighted that we shall now be going down hill for 1 km till the river :-).
Our porter insisted that we take tea and daal bhaat at his house number 2 . So we sat down to have daal bhaat .
You can see Inder Singh family .
Nitin and Prashant had daal bhaat( rice ) , the daal was a local pahari daal and looked/ tasted Ghaaut.Prashant shared dry fruits with few village kids who were delighted .
We crossed the rive that comes from Bedni , and were terrified to see the long climb we had to take further up to Bedni Bugyal. As we were climbing, we wer egetitn ghuingey,,havin had th eearly breakfast, so we rested at Gaaroni Patal . We had to take another rest. Inder singh promply got few dry woods / water and made delcisous maggie for all of us.
View from the place where we had maggie !
As we were going uphill, it started raining drizzling and then finally heavily. We promply took out our raincoats(thank god, we were cayying them !!)
The climb got even more steep from Garoni Patal , but now we cud c the bugyals on top of the hills .
We were delighted to have finally reached a point from where, the snow hills were visible
We have finally managed to reach the entrance to the Bedni Bugyal.
There were so small grass and bright flowers of varied colors such as blue/ pink .
Absolutely lush green fields greete dus , which were a tret to the eyes and we quickly forgot the pain in the legs due to continuous ascent !!!
We also met the security guard ( aaponited by Bugyal sakrashan samiti ) who resides at Bedni Bugyal and stays in the guest house on the way and was more than eager to show us the bugyal which was lush green and devoid of aniamls gazing.
There is a small bedni kund which has accumulated water from rains.
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