Trip to Mt Abu Final part

February 17, 2022
Thursday

Hello! A very warm morning to you all,
I am here with the final part of my trip to mt Abu the first part you can read here which normally will acknowledge you what made us pursue this trip and what were the challenges we'd overcome for it, and in the second part you will get to read about how we reached the destination and how exciting or dreadful for some, click here.

So, it was January 01 when we reached our camp and were provided with the bed and schedule and our huts to live...
Now, after dinner, we were told that next morning we will go for in and around trekking and the time for tea was 0600 hours with tea and breakfast together and accordingly we had to routine our reveille ourselves but in my hut I played cards till late night with my friends and this was the first time in almost 10 years that I touched cards again. In the morning everyone get up little late and we all freshened up in a rush to get ready to the breakfast table as soon as possible and it was no big deal for us considering the background of the school where we belonged.

Then, we were given instructions that today since it is just the first day so we will not go far off and just do the 7-10 km trekking so we all proceeded and the instructor told us to carry a bottle of water with us but some of us feel like are we kid to carry a bottle of water with us, nah, we aren't doing that but some of us took the bottle also it was necessary because you can get dehydrated while trekking if you do not keep on taking fluids at intervals. after an inclination walk of few kilometers on a road, we reached a place "Gaumukh Dham" where the actual Gaumukh was way back about 500 stairs downward the hill and we proceeded to reach there and we walked in and around the temple and the fascinating thing about this place was there was a head of 8cow = "gaumukh" in which water keeps on coming 24/7 *365 and a freshwater, I quenched my thirst because the water was so fresh and pure and also washed myself a little bit.

Then, we climbed upstairs again

This is the mouth of a cow giving out water continuously

Then we came back to the camp and received our lunch and then was instructed to take a little rest then we will go further to climb some mountains. And we again played cards till our evening tea at 1600 hours and after that, we proceeded to the mountain and to tell you we were climbing the mountains of "ARAVALI RANGES"
The Aravali range was looking beautiful seeing its long stretch though we cannot see it the whole because it's way too long. Anyway, after reaching the top by helping our mates who were struggling a bit while climbing we were told that this is the third highest point of this Aravali range and though it feels exciting to everyone I murmured to some friends "what is so beautiful climbing third highest point take us to the first highest then we can say that yes we climbed the highest point of Aravali.
My batchmates were listening to me and didn't say anything but then I told our instructor that we also want to climb the highest and second-highest point of this mountain range and he said very calmly, of course, we will climb them too but tomorrow and day after tomorrow and that was the point when I felt happiness climbing this point too.

We came back after soaking our faces with the glistening sunset and we also admired the way this town was designed which can be easily seen from the top we saw that every household here installed solar panels and solar geysers on their roof and that was very eco-friendly I appreciated the idea very well. And we came back to our camp and after some time had dinner and played cards and slept.
The next day, we again was late only to wake ourselves on the whistle of the instructor and we proceeded everything hurriedly and took our breakfast and started with the trekking and today we were told that we will do about 15 km trekking and I was so enthralled to hear that because I am an adventure-loving person.
We keep on going and going until we reach the base of the 2nd highest point of this mountain range and since we were already walking for quite a time and it was all uphill so the instructor said to take a 5 min rest everyone. And then we proceed to climb and this hill was the steepest climb but we keep on climbing making new ways and at places where there was no way we supported each other to climb a little upwards by supporting them on our bodies.

When we reached up-top there was a spiritual spot that was quite abandoned our instructor cleaned that spot and then light some incense sticks and then he was resting a little and we were embracing the beauty of Mt.Abu which was clearly visible from these mountains. And then we took a group photo, and the instructor said that the way we are going to climb down is way too steeper, and if we do not pay attention it can be very dangerous. Some of our batchmates were frightened and I told them what's wrong with you all, the bottom line is you are not going to die.

We came back took our lunch > evening tea > further trekking this time we were told that we are going to some city insights and before that, we will go to some toad rock point =" MENDHAK POINT" we reached > took rest> embrace the night beauty of the city > came back through the city.

The next day, we were doing some activities in the camp itself which was no big deal for any of us. and it took time for everyone to do the activities and then we took our lunch. We were free in the evening today to visit the city if our teachers' granted permission and some was playing football and then we sneaked into the city (4 of us) without permission and we were enjoying the place and forget our way back towards the camp but we keep on enjoying reached a lake too and also saw some young people around 22-24 age enjoying with their girlfriends on bikes and having fun, we were like that's the damn beautiful scene they are having.

We came back after using the hit and trial method of finding our camp. And then the next day we went to the "gurushikhar" The highest point but it was not meant to climb we went there by jeep as it was too far and it was normally a spiritual place we reached there roamed a little and came back ( a funny incident also happened there), then we came back

The next day, we were set to do some rock climbing and other adventurous things it also enthralled us and after everyone did their part we came back and in the evening we were free and therefore our teacher took every one of us for a city walk and we enjoyed but 4 of us already was acquainted with all these places hehe, then came back to the camp. We had a campfire in the night with another group joining us there were girls in that group also we sing some songs and they did some flexible demonstrations of stretching and karate and other stuff. Then the next day we visited a temple a famous one "DILWARA JAIN TEMPLE" No cameras were allowed in there and in the evening we went to witness the sunset point and it was so beautiful.

In the night I was called for mentioning the names of our batchmates in the certificate list and it was quite a time-taking and then I observed in the manager's office that the kitchen mess is fitted with CCTV cameras and every activity of the workers in the mess can be seen directly from here and other places of the camp premise were easily visible in his monitor.
This gives a positive image of the management to me.

This was all that happened and NOW I will upload some photos:

This is the place where we sued to have our meals the benches are arranged behind those bushes, isn't it beautiful to have food in open-air haha??

This was our hut;

This was inside the camp area.

Station where we arrived first and had to depart from.

PHOTOS ARE CLICKED BY MYSELF

tHANK YOU