To the Land of Ganga-Yamuna
It's May and Kolkata is reeling under excessive heat. Why not beat the heat by visiting the mountains! And our destination is Gangotri and Yamunotri at Uttarakhand, India. The tour plan is to reach Dehradun by train and from there take the road to Yamunotri first followed by Gangotri and then return through Haridwar. Gangotri, Yamunotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath are the Four Dhams of Uttarakhand . These Dhams open for tourists on Akshay Tritiya and closes on Diwali every year. It's a hot summer afternoon on May 10, 2019 and the journey begins. We are a big group this time, thirteen in total. I'm the youngest one at 30 years and the senior-most is lively at 82. My parents are accompanying me in this trip and the others are friends of my father. S tuffy weather and we've got to take a long train journey to Dehradun from Howrah by Upasana Express . Reeling under the heat, we wait impatiently for the oncoming cool days to give a brief respite. A tremendously ti...