Madhyamaheshwar

sujit saha

dear somnath
i am 62 years of age. i am going to madmaheshwar on 20/05/2008 & 21/05/2008.i have six others with me almost of the same age. we are three males& four females. i shall reach ukhimath on 18th may & stay at bharat seva ashram till 19th may. we will have our vehicle with us. it will take us till kali math or where ever the trek starts from. please suggest as to where from we may get poney on hire and where will be best for night stay.
look forward to you advise wiyh out delay.
thank you in advance.
sujit saha

spicetrekker

Dear Sujit

Please use the phones nos of Naryan Rawat and Mr Panwar in the mail and see if they can arrange for ponies - I am sure they can.

All the best for your trip.

somnath biswas

Hi Guys,
After a long time I am again with you all. Hope you are doing well. One unfortunate thing happened to me. We were on a small tour, post son’s annual examination at Vizag/ Arraku. My son was not well and had some stomach problem prior to our tour. He was fallen sick again at Vizag and developed Typhoid. Things worsen when we came back at Kolkata. He was hospitalized for quick recovery. He is now OK. My reason for writing is probably doctor will not permit me to go Madmaheswar this year. Can you please suggest some place – obviously Himalaya – post Puja for a week, preferably Garwal.

spicetrekker

Sorry to hear this - when are you planning to go. How bad is his case and what are the preacuations he has been advised. Some more details will help - are all treks ruled out even shorter ones...

somnath biswas

Hi,
I discussed Doctor only yesterday that if we could go during Durga Puja. His answer was yes, but with some precautions, especially with water. He said that he should take hot food and only mineral water. Trekking probably is not possible. Some good place where we can go by motor. Can we get good water and food at Uniana?

spicetrekker

Somnathji

I guess Pooja is around 3-4 months away - a good time for your son to recover. In my younger days I had typhoid and I was fully recovered in 3 months. I am not sure how bad is your son's case but I think in 3-4 months he should be fully fit. As far as going to Madhmaheshwar is concerned - you can get hot food all along. As for water I dont remember seeing too bottled water being sold but the water from streams was good enough. For your son you have two options -
1. Carry some water purfication tablets or filters - many are avaiable in fact a search on Indiamike will give you some answers

2. Carry mineral water from Ukhimath - say 4 litres a day for 4 days which is 16 kgs of load - which is slightly less than what a porter would carry.

I would go with option 1 and not worry too much. Needless to say you should watch out how he recovers in the next few months and then decide.

Other option is to go to Chopta and do small treks to Deoria tal and Tungnath. Then move to Mandal and trek (5 kms) to Anusuya Devi and stay the night there.

I personally think you are giving up on Madhmaheshwar a bit too early, your son should be ok in the next 3 months or so.

sandeepbwn

Sorry to hear about ur son's illness. It's nice that he is okay nnw. How about visiting places like Munsiari, Srinagar etc during the puja?

somnath biswas

Thank you for your suggestion. In fact I am also interested to go Madmaheswar this year if Doctor allows. He actually developed very bad type of Typhoid. So much so he was drug resistance to normal medicines. Zenocin the most effective drug for Typhoid was also not effective to him. This discovered after we did blood culture from Roy Tribedi. Hope you now understand the problem. Let's see.

Secondly, the route you suggested Deoriatal,Tungnath via Chopta, we did some three years back. You said "Then move to Mandal and trek (5 kms) to Anusuya Devi and stay the night there." Is this trek starts from Mandal or via Tungnath any route is available. I am really exited about this route. Please let me know. Thanks for your kind information and all concern for my son.

somnath biswas

Hi Sandeepbwn

I could not get you. Are you interested to go Srinagar/Munsiari this puja or this is your suggestion for me.

spicetrekker

Oops the situation of your son seems to be much worse than I thought. I guess Madhmaheshwar can wait.

As for the trek to Anusuya - the route is from Mandal. In fact I did this when we climbed from Mandal to Rudranath. Till Anusuya the track is well laid and infact concerted in many places. I am not sure if you can reach Anusya directly from Tungnath - it may be possible but it would be very strenuous.

VAIBHAV KAUL

I am amazed. I did not see any GMVN rest house in Chopta
in May, 2007, Oct, 2007 Dec, 2007 and May, 2008. I thought the forest department people in Chopta do not allow anyone to construct hotels or guest houses any more. If you have seen the rest house, where is it?

somnath biswas

Vaibhav Kaul. Yes I have seen GMVN tourist lodge in the year 2004. It was just oposite to the entrance gate of Tungnath.

"Tungnath (3,680m or 2,065 ft) is the highest (in altitude) temple in India.

You get here by trekking from Chopta (7km, 4 hr), which is 37km from Ukhimath. "At Chopta there is a GMVN Tourist Bungalow that has rooms with attached baths."

link http://www.vegetarian-restaurants.ne...ar-Pradesh.htm

Dilliwala

Seen, but was it open and functioning?

It's true that there used to be a GMVN at Chopta. It was closed years ago and the one at Ukhimath opened instead. I have a feeling that page somnath linked to hasn't been updated in a long time (bottom of page has '2001' ?)
GMVN's own website doesn't show it either; it can't be booked.

Sadanand Kamath

Dilliwala is right. GMVN TRH, Chopta has been non-functional at least since September 1998 when I was there. It was functional when we visited in Sept.92.

Sadanand

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solo_trekker

How many days for a trek to Madmaheshwar (and anyplace in the vicinity) from Delhi and back...?

And the ideal season please...

Cheers...