Some Unseen truth of Kedarnath Disaster(Part-1)

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Short  Description of my trip.
We (me,mummy,uncle, aunty and driver) planned to visit char dham( ie Yamunotri,Gangotri,Kedarnath and Badrinath). So we completed Yamunotri and Gangotri and moved towards the Kedarnath by our personal Innova .It was too difficult to reach Kedarnath on the same day so we decided to take rest in between Gangotri and Kedarnath and took a night halt and planned to travel early in the morning. And on next morning after breakfast we moved to Kedarnath.

Reached Gaurikund

We reached Phata(a place before 15 Km before gaurikund  ) at 6 PM . There we saw a long line of vehicles.and a police man told me that each hour we send limited number of vehicles to gaurikund and u have to wait . That was the first place in uttrakhand where we saw any police or governance . we are also stopped by some check post before and they told that you cannot travel after 6 PM but after taking 200Rs they allowed all the vehicles to pass. So after one long hour we got our way but full of traffic no management from government at all. We moved with the speed of 10Km/hr and reached Gaurikund at 9PM. And found that there were no space for parking and police told driver to park innova 7km far from Gaurikund I was very disapponted with this and with this mismanagement of government.

Now Gaurikund was like khumbh mela, too much rush and to fill the gap rain started.And we start searching for hotel with our luggage  on road,near by hotel charging to much for night stay. So we moved towards hot spring pools and took the only left 10 cross 10 feet room in 2000 Rs. We asked for a discount from hotel manager then he  refused to give the discount and told that this is the most crowdy night in past years. As there was no choice so we took that room and decided to leave for the temple at 6 AM next morning. 

From Gaurikund to kedarnath temple

Their was heavy rain in the morning when we wake up at 5 AM, So we purchased local raincoats and left the gaurikund at 8 AM. First we decided to take horses to travel to kedarnath temple( it was 14km track from gauriund to kedarnath from which 7kms gaurikund to ramvada was easy track but after ramvada to kadernth temple was steap and narrow)
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Horse parking in gaurikund

After all our religious discussion elder decided not to opt horse and track by our own while tracking to kedarnath we seen many different species  of plants some were looking like snakes.

There we seen every age group people tracking with all difficulties and the only thing strengthening them was chanting "jai kedarnath baba". it was a divine feeling and there you can see real follower of Dharm. but some are only for fun and they are treating it like a outing throwing ploy-bags and water bottles in river. At 11Pm we reached Ramwada here we took some breakfast and seen again a huge parking of horse.

     The nominal charges fixed by govt was 700Rs one way and after 6 PM the route from gaurikund to kedarnath temple was closed . But humans will never leave there tendency if you are ready to pay 2000Rs they will take you to the kedardham at 8 Pm also and if you want to start from Gauri kund in midnight then also they have no problem just pay some more ie 3000Rs one way. There was also helicopter service from phata to kedar temple but was stopped by horse owners to earn more from visitors.
 After all it was a nice decision not to choose horse ride for tracking.

There was no maintenance of the track neither from government nor from temple committee . it was to small for both horse and humans walking on same time . And don't ask about the excreta of horses it was all over the road and was coming on us as horses are passing from there. One can not find a single police man to help a needy and not a single first aid camp or temporary hospitals. i am sharing some of the pics of Natural beauty and mismanagement

Some Unseen truth of Kedarnath Disaster(Part-2)