The Flower Show #5

The fields of flowers.

Assorted flowers - Courtesy Prashi

Prashi does a Patel pose in the valley.

Sandy and I do some Patel posing on a glacier. This glacier has melted in the middle. The stream we saw earlier flows through that gap - Courtesy Prashi

From the valley we trekked back to Ghangria. It was about 10:30 AM when we started from Ghangria down. Prashi chose to keep up his cowboy shtick, and even got himself a floppy Stetson-like black hat. All he lacked was a gun and spurs. Sandy chose to walk it down this time. To quote, "The damn horse took my ass yesterday. And I have only one ass. I’ll walk, thank you".

Prashi, horsing around.

The walk down was much, much tougher than the route up. It took me considerably longer, and when I finally reached Govindghat, at nearly 4:30PM, I was hardly in a shape to stand. But, we had to get back to Joshimath, and the road only stays open as long as the sun is up. We got the bikes started, and headed back to Joshimath post haste. No marks for guessing where we stayed… GMVN