Lakuri Bhanjyang Hike

March 2nd, 2008

attendees:
-lekhnath
-madhav
-paul
-jwalanta
-mahesh
-dinesh
-chetan
-puspesh
-me (rajiv)

hike route:
dhungin-lakuri bhanjyang(pahad ko bato, not motor bato)-camp-back to lakuri-gufa ko bato-bheer ko bato(dinesh what say!!)-jangal hudai godavari macha kendra

-6:00-7:15
gathering at the overhead bridge n waiting for frens...
i met chetan on the way (at the shahid gate micro park).went forth to overhead bridge.
JD, lekhnath, paul, and mahesh were there already..
called for few frens (esp. jeevan but fonai lagena...)
pushpesh aayo ani madhav pani...
had a light breakfast...
-7:30
off to lagankhel
7:45-8:30
dinesh lai tehi bhetiyo
almal@lagankhel ie kinmel etc....
8:40
off on lubhu lamatar bus..
that damn khalasi le student discount nai diyena...(:<
9:20
reached dhungin
9:25
started the hike
-There was road way up to lakuri but we went the straight jungle way...
chetan exhausted in first 15 mins!!!(bani nabhayera ho... pachi ta babaal kudyo ni chetan man)
on the way hot discussion on the water flow pattern from a pipe with technical reasoning...(kasari testo aako re keta ho??)
10:15
reached the bhanjyang
is this it?? not even 1 hr n hike finished?? c'mon people... it's not happening
so decided to go further....
but, which way to go?? panauti-another 13 km, bhaktapur -suryavinayak walk or jungle to godavari...
first had some fruits... and went upto the camp.
Searched for the tallest hilltop...found one and stayed there to get view of the valley from a new angle, while the stressed muscle got relaxed and the body restored the energy.
But the fog was the villain there, hardly gave us a view at all...
I was trying to figure a reference point (the airport). Tyo aerplan tya pugepachi ka harauncha ka??
though we didn't found the airport, our body n soul found the relax and peace there.
We stayed there for about 1 hr and got back to the (i'd like to call it as) lakuri point.
12:15
we had lil discussion about where to go... and decided to go to godavari, but first to the gufa as one signboard stated there.
At the point, we met another hike gang probably the +2 boys.
Shared lil opinion with them on their request and set off for gufa.
The gufa was a fluke (at least for us), coz we didn't find one. the trail we followed must have been abandoned long ago. Nobody should walk that way, trust me or ask Dinesh. ke cha bichaar dinesh tyo bato ko bare ma??
the +2 gang was following us and we shouted them not to come along... and i think they listened to us. (they must have returned back).
But we decided to go ahead no matter what, the guys were determined and kept moving... man this portion is what makes this hiking a memorable and exciting one!!!
After about 45 mins or so, we found a more common trail where we met an old couple (gai bastu charauna aaka!!).
we talked with them for a while. "hare kina testo jangal ra bheer ko bato aako ni, utabata sajilo bato nai thiyo...".
I was thinkin, "bato bata hidna lai hiking kina aaunu paryo ni hehe," but we replied nothin but smiled like dumb asses..
few minutes rest there and then we continued from there as well.
Reached the local maxima of the hill(u know wat i mean) in next few minutes and we could see the macha kendra from there.
Now, the remaining trip is all downhill role!!! whoooooo ... and now who is leading the group??? i remember the song 'ukali ma pachi pachi orali ma aghi aghi...'.
All the guys were pumped up and rumbled down the hill broooom bhrooooom!!!
On the way we stopped to get the laligurans and had some group snaps with the flower in the hands.... (JD must have some pics of this in his foto blog)

2:30 around we reached godavari base. and then we went to that mandir with a pond (what is that mandir called).
The pond was like spa for us(well not a hot one though!!!), khtta pani ma rakhera kya relax bho... and our exhausted legs were treated, never felt better.

AND, did i mentioned that we hadn't had our meal yet?? oh, we all were very hungry, went to a local restaurant, and plunged some stuff in our empty digestive well.
The discussion of the whole day went on in the restaurant.

4:30 we left the restaurant and visited the godavari park. bad timing, it was closing time,
but we went in ...
A hot discussion on how the fountain was set up... again with technical reasonings to back up the claims..
kasari re puspesh?? fountain experiment!!! and what bout the theory of conservation of energy???

And that funny incident....
JD u are crazy, disturbing the couples- looking for couples and striding towards them shouting BHAAAAGO!!!!.
In fact we all are jackasses, but who cares, it was fun.

5:30 and we are returning. paul went to his ol'school, puspesh went along. but few others were already in the micro bus.The vehicle started movin and 6 of us left the paul n other two guys to come in another vehicle.
I called paul to inform n that was not much of a trouble.

One very memorable hiking.na dherai lamo, na ta dherai chhoto, thikka ko. Not much pain in the body, but great memories in the mind; almost a perfect hike!!! (JD n chetanman, u guys must not disagree much, what say!!!)

The picture gallery can be found at Jwalanta's picasa gallery.