Visiting to a place which is famous not only within the country but globally all around the world has got a different feelings. Yes, I am talking about my trip to Solukhumbu, a place known for its beautiful mountains and waterfalls etc, which is located in the eastern part of Nepal. It was in the month of September, that we were about to have our dashain vacation. So we had made a plan to visit Solukhumbu, which has been our plan since last 2 years.
On
September 28, we left Kathmandu from Chabahil at 5 o clock in the
early morning. Moving through the different places like Bhaktapur,
Dhulikhel and so on. We had a lot of fun in the way singing, eating
and enjoying the outer nature view from the van. In the way We came
across many rivers, waterfalls,mountains and so on. Crossing the
rivers was a very frightful moments, looking at those vehicles
crossing directly through the river. I could saw that it was becoming
a lot difficult for vans to cross the river and extra tractors were
being used to pull vehicles out of river. And such rivers were many
over there in the way. So we reached a placed name Okhaldunga in
between. The whether in Okhaldunga was amazing, we could see forest
filled with white fog and smoke all over. The whether was too calm to
keep our mind fresh and peace. In between I used to get wonder, are
we at the heaven? Then I realized we were not at the heaven, instead
it was the cloud that was below us and we could see no land from
there.
We
were about to reach Salleri, a famous place known in Solukhumbu which
is a base start for Mount Everest Camp. We had planned to stay there
in Salleri that night and continue our journey from there the very
next morning to reach a place name “Mugli”, where we could reach
to our friend Mr.Rabin BK house. But the things got all different and
all our planned has to get change due to a moment that happen in a
way in Sisneri. I can never ever forget that moment of night we spent
over there. It turned out to be a challenge of life and dealth. It
was around 5 o clock we were stuck in jam for around 2 hours in a
huge forest. It was a night with no moonlight, completely dark
outside. We saw that many people were returning back to Kathmandu
after reaching almost to Solukhumbu. So, we wanted to see what was
exactly happening there, so we got out from the van and went half an
hour walking in front of all.
We
found that a huge landslide was continuously falling down. It was
bringing large stones with it. We waited a few hours more where
people didn’t wanted to cross the road at that time and some even
return back from there. But after waiting for few hours we decided
that we should cross the road. But then some people stopped us and
suggested that let the truck go first so that it can make the way out
and even
more clear as well. So we agreed and asked the driver to
back the vehicle and give side to truck first and then we will go
behind it. As an when truck reached in the middle, a big stone fell
from above and hit the truck. The size of the stone was as big as our
jeep, and destructed that truck, People started again screeming and
the driver of the truck was saved luckyly by running away from truck.
There I realized that just a minute ago we were about to go before
that truck and if we were in place of that then it would have been
even difficult to find the bone of out body on that day.
So
We decided that we are not going to move further. It was too cold
there to stay the whole night so we requested driver to take us back
and we shall stop where we will be able to see any village or town
nearby. So after traveling 2 more hours back we reached a town name
Ramite Bazar. After reaching there we knocked the door in almost
every house but no one opened the door. The cold was increasing in
the night and we were continuously banging the houses and even hotels
there. Finally knocking for around 2 hours we got a space to stay at
around 1 o clock in the mid night. We ate little of what we had there
and sat over there with some other foreigners. We talked with one of
the foreigners from Canada whose name was Mr. Richard Kennady. He was
also stuck there with the same landslide, so he had came there in the
evening itself. We managed to stay there for little of hours and we
left that place in the early morning itself after a nice breakfast of
boiled potatos that was really awesome.
The
very next day we left that place in the early morning and decided to
go tracking through a forest as we had only that as a option. People
warned us there about the problems and difficulties we shall have to
face if we go through that way, but we decided to face all those
challenges. In the beginning it was nice tracking through mountains,
waterfalls, rivers. But then slowly it was becoming difficult to
accept challenges when there were no ways to move forwards and we
were creating our own way through the long grasses all over. We knew
the direction but didn’t know whether we were in a right path or
not, still we increased our speed as it was about to go dark. We
wanted to reach Nele bazar as soon as possible so that at least we
could have some water and food there in hotels. So we reached Nele
bazar in the evening and ate a lot. The hot samosas and spicy thuppa
regained our energy. Without doing any delay we continued our journey
again towards Mugli. We reached Mugli in the night at around 9 pm. We
were glad to meet my friends family there. We were tired a lot so we
slept that night after a nice dinner.
On
september 30, The
very next day we had a very special and unique form of tea called Nun
chiya . It was a milk tea without actually having milk in it. I know
its little confusing but that’s true. Actually people there make
milk tea using wheat flour mixed with hot water and add nun and ghee
in it, and that’s make a milk tea. After a nice breakfast we
decided to go for a visit in a nearby areas itself. Our body was
completely tired so we didn’t make any plan to go anywhere on that
day so we went for fishing nearby and enjoyed in nearby areas. And at
last in the evening we had a dance at home together and had a small
party as well. We made lots of plan for further days and went for
sleep.
On October 1, We started our next journey to Salleri which was our main destination after Mugli. We went further to Salleri and visited beautiful tombs and also saw Nepal’s one of the most dangerous airport where helicopter used to land with the people who wanted to go for Everest Camp. However we couldn’t make Everest camp because we had no much time left for our return journey to Kathmandu. We wanted to go to Dhudh Koshi river as well, and luckyly so we could make that also with the help of my friend’s brother in law whose house was close to Dodh Koshi in varleni. We went to his house that night and stayed there and had a nice party there as well.
On
October 2, Brother in law took us to show us one of the biggest
tunnel of nepal that was being in progress. And with that we reached
to Dhudh Koshi in few hours with a help of truck. We enjoyed in bank
of Dhudh Koshi for few hours and returned to varleni. After it took
us almost a whole day to climb many mountains to reach back to Mugli.
On
october 3, We packed our bags to return to kathmandu in a nearby
known jeep. While returning we could saw many mountains filled with
ice and only ice everywhere. It was such a amazing moments for me as
well as my friends. We were back to Kathmandu by night in the same
day at around 8pm.
The
moments were too advanturous and challenging as well. What I found
was that Accepting challenges matter a lot but when challenges itself
become thrilling and frightful as well, that has a different
experience in life. The waterfalls that I came across were countless
and probably it was those waterfalls that helped us to accept
challenges in the forest and made our days even more memorable
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