The Sandakphu trek, is one trek where we have an essence of everything - Beautiful Mountain view, faraway Snow-capped peaks , Beautiful Meadows and the serene forest.
One of the initial question which out trek leader asked us was -
""What is the underlying reason why each one of us are doing the Sandakphu trek?""
My answer was "The View of Sleeping Buddha". Its true indeed that Sleeping Buddha was the very reason why I got attracted in choosing this trek. This trek has made me more knowledgeable about the tall peaks which we have in the Himalayas. Kangchenjunga being the first in the list. I must confess that I had very limited knowledge of mountain and its importance.
Its day-3 for us and we were at Tumling. I was awake by 4AM and ready to witness our first sunrise of "The Sleeping Buddha".
More than the sunrise my mind was completely on the first rays falling on the snow-capped peaks. This had been my thought for most of the mornings in this trek (except Sabargram - My eyes were dangling between - the sunrise or the sleeping Buddha).
We indeed got a spectacular view of the mountains that day morning.
The flow of light down from the summit towards the bottom was a mesmerizing view.
The above picture is taken after I captured my video (Youtube link at the end has the complete visuals).
After the morning view of Sleeping Buddha, I don't think any other photographic compositions on that day would be justified. Still I could not resist taking few nice shots which is copied below
This picture is going to be my wallpaper for sometime now. I just loved ....
The one other important thing to start off the day is to taste the "Noon tea". We got one cup made for us and few of us shared ....Yuk...taste...that was the first reaction..but that changed a-bit when I tasted the second sip....It was different...
We started the days trek by ~8:30AM and soon we entered the Sangarilla National Park. The most important and another first time sight for us came soon ....We were blessed to sight "THE EVEREST" . It was such a clear day that we have been told that Everest sighting on second day of the trek is a rarity.
We reached Kalipokri by late afternoon . Kalipokri was a small town and there is not much views from there. So we were mostly indoor .... But the real reason was it was very very cold. The wind was making us shiver even inside the dining area. It was at Khalipokri we had really good ice-breaking session - The Adjective activity. With that the group had known each other well ..at least by name :)
Sleep took over the cold night with the dream of Sandakphu "summit" the next day......
Leaving now with my vlog on beautiful sunrise and the days events.....
One of the initial question which out trek leader asked us was -
""What is the underlying reason why each one of us are doing the Sandakphu trek?""
My answer was "The View of Sleeping Buddha". Its true indeed that Sleeping Buddha was the very reason why I got attracted in choosing this trek. This trek has made me more knowledgeable about the tall peaks which we have in the Himalayas. Kangchenjunga being the first in the list. I must confess that I had very limited knowledge of mountain and its importance.
Its day-3 for us and we were at Tumling. I was awake by 4AM and ready to witness our first sunrise of "The Sleeping Buddha".
More than the sunrise my mind was completely on the first rays falling on the snow-capped peaks. This had been my thought for most of the mornings in this trek (except Sabargram - My eyes were dangling between - the sunrise or the sleeping Buddha).
We indeed got a spectacular view of the mountains that day morning.
The flow of light down from the summit towards the bottom was a mesmerizing view.
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| Sleeping Bhudda "." |
After the morning view of Sleeping Buddha, I don't think any other photographic compositions on that day would be justified. Still I could not resist taking few nice shots which is copied below
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| This tree stood very distinct from others. I shot this after sunrise view while going back to the room. I have processed to give the glow effect ( one of the simplest processing techniques which I use for some images ) |
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| View of entire Tumling - Stupa to Stupa .. |
The one other important thing to start off the day is to taste the "Noon tea". We got one cup made for us and few of us shared ....Yuk...taste...that was the first reaction..but that changed a-bit when I tasted the second sip....It was different...
We started the days trek by ~8:30AM and soon we entered the Sangarilla National Park. The most important and another first time sight for us came soon ....We were blessed to sight "THE EVEREST" . It was such a clear day that we have been told that Everest sighting on second day of the trek is a rarity.
We reached Kalipokri by late afternoon . Kalipokri was a small town and there is not much views from there. So we were mostly indoor .... But the real reason was it was very very cold. The wind was making us shiver even inside the dining area. It was at Khalipokri we had really good ice-breaking session - The Adjective activity. With that the group had known each other well ..at least by name :)
Sleep took over the cold night with the dream of Sandakphu "summit" the next day......
Leaving now with my vlog on beautiful sunrise and the days events.....
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