Start of the trek

day 2 : 20 dec 2008
Today we a started early to catch the bus.it was a typical village bus.It was rickety from wear and tear.we found out why the bus was so from our journey.the journey was for 12 hours.first the roads were good.as we proceeded i could see valleys and river flowing parrllel to the bus .from time to time unknown peaks showed thier icy caps.the air was cool while the sun was pleasant.As i enjoyed the Scenary the time flew.the bus stopped at few places to pick up people and continues its journey.i took no notice of whats happening until my stomach grumbled aound 11.thank god the bus stopped for lunch.except the ashirvad of a pujari when bus stopped at a nowhere temple we reached govind national park.we were asked to get down and fill paper s and pay fee for trekking in the park.We had a little quarrel as how much we should pay and then we started the journey along the rocky mountain terrian.the last 10 kms was harrowing.the roads were so bad, i bumped so frequently into my neighbour he was pushed to edge of seat.finally around 5:30 we reacjhed sankri to just get the info the last jeep to taluka our next destination has just left..we opted to stay at sankhri and chowkidar was more than happy about our arrival.we got bed in the dorm for 150 but we were the only guys then.there is private lodge which i guess contains two rooms and dhaba ,good one, operational even in december.we had rotis and sabji for night from the dhab.they were just finger licking good.