Trip to Guptkashi near Kedarnath

 At Devprayag

 Crossing Kaliganga at Kalimath  

 Sitting in the fields , reading reading my favorite story book

 At lord Shiva temple Kalimath

 On the banks of Kaliganga

Standing in front of Aryan's helicopter

On the way to Guptkashi

On Saturday morning at   6 a.m.  I and my mother set of  to Guptkashi with Alok uncle. It took about 6-7 hours to reach Guptkashi. On the way we stopped at somewhere Rishikesh for breakfast. We had Alo -Paratha and Dahi. When we went on proceeding   on the road, we saw the destruction made by the 2013 disaster and also saw many bridges broken .We saw the that river, which is coming from Kedarnath had stretched  the valley between the mountains. We had been to Kedarnath in the October 2012 so I could see the difference the disaster had made in the landscape and of course in the lives of the people.

 We reached Guptkashi at 4 p.m. First we ate our lunch at a restaurant in the bazaar of Guptkashi and then we went off to LAL'S Resort where we met M.R FANCIES. When we arrived at the hotel, my mother did some discussion with other uncles whose house had been destroyed in 2013 and was going to be rebuilt.. I had also brought my favorite storybook THE FAMOUS FIVE and wrote one page of some essay competition .After writing I took a nap and woke up at 7p.m. My mother woke me up for supper in the evening and was raining heavily, so we took an umbrella.  A chef served us all the food on a table. They also told us that there was a helipad for going to Kedarnath and also some four pilots living in the hotel for two months continuously. They served us some Fried Rice, Manchurian and some other vegetables. That night, I read THE FAMOUS FIVE for half- an hour. My mother told me about all those people whose houses are going to be rebuilt - she told me there are children who had not gone to school for more than a year for the simple reaosn that their school has been washed away. Hearing this I was sad and stunned. Here I was so unhappy about having to go to school everyday and here these children are  unhappy about not being able to go to school. What contrast. 

The next day after breakfast, I , my mother , MR FANCIES , Alok uncle and two other uncles went to Kalimath. The road was very narrow and badly broken in places. We also saw that a stadium in the valley belonging to the government which had also been destroyed by the disaster.

I was sad on seeing so much of destruction. Can't it had been avoided? Perhaps it could have been, if people had been more thoughtful and careful. But people have become so greedy, they want concrete structures to come up everywhere without caring for the environment.

With a heavy heart, I came back to Dehradun.