Banshil - A day with deodars

Another trip to another beautiful Himalayan village- Banshil, located among deodar trees. I will not tell you where for I want to keep the location of the place a secret- it is so beautiful and unspoiled.

The meadows were rolling green and bordered by forests full of deodar trees and birds and butterflies. I saw a common peacock butterfly and heard many birds.
We stayed at a new hut on the edge of the meadows. To get to the place you have to trek about 2km from where the road ends.
The village to which this meadows and forests belong has beautiful Jaunpuri homes. There is small gurgling stream beside the place.
Though the road to the place was bad ( hope it stays that way, so that people do not come and crowd the place), it is just too good- rolling meadows, deep forests, mountain stream, birds, butterflies, morning treks in the jungles, what more can anyone want on a holiday?

 Playing cricket in the evening 

 Pounding grain the natural way 

 Beautiful Jaunpuri Home 

Common Peacock Butterfly 

Bisoi - B stands for Beautiful

 This summer we headed to a  completely unknown place in the Himalayas. It is called Biosi and is famous for the magnificent Mahazu Devtaa temple .

Though the place is only 70 kms from Dehradun, but it is a completely different world. Very cute colorful houses standing tall against the green mountains, the life there is very different from the life in the city. Even the houses were so different . We stayed in one such house. It was beautiful wooden carvings and in the evening we watched a beautiful local dance- Pandav dance.
The food our hosts cooked for us was simple buy yummy- much better than you find in restaurants .
Afternoon I played with the local boys and as night fell, the sky was bright with stars.

 Playing with Bisoi boys 

 House where we stayed 

 Pandav dance