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Hike to Abu Khaireni to Manakamana temple Truly speaking the day began with a slight confusion for the hike to Manakamana. A hike with people whom I have never met and talked before!!! But still I was excited and I was hoping the hike to be very much interesting than anything I had experienced ever in my life. I grabbed all my zeal and headed towards the office where all of us gathered. At about 8:00am a group of 13 including me and Ram Dai drove towards “Abu Khaireni” from where we had decided to walk. The chilled and gloomy morning was spent in the coach listening to the music, enjoying the natural scenery, watching the serpentine flow of the Trishuli River and the waves of the water and sometimes being stuck in short traffic jams. After having breakfast on the way in 'Everest Bhojanalaya' we proceeded. After a long drive the hike started at about 12:00 pm and all prepared, we started walking. The real hike began from the 'jholunge pul' (swinging bridge). Crossing the wide river through ‘jholunge pul’ wasfun but Sweta di was a little scared.

He almost laid down on the bench in the rest house...

Everything went on as expected. Chatting with the co-hikers, jokes and pranks were something I enjoyed the most. I had a nice time with all of my jolly co-hikers. Though I was new in the group, within few hours I became involved with everyone, I felt like they were someone whom I have known since very long and all of them were very friendly and lively. The most jovial was Ashutosh Dai. He became exhausted quite soon and was walking at low pace. He almost laid down on the bench in the rest house being all tired and still commented on us that we didn’t know what is hiking, it is not just walking but also resting and enjoying the scenarios around and if we wanted so much of walking then we'd better done - 2 to 6 and 6 to - 2 in D2 building. This funny comment made us laugh till our stomach start aching and I felt this was the joke of the day. Even after the joke was over Chandani di and Ashutosh Dai were recalling that very joke and laughing their lot. All the way long we were chatting and joking with each other and snapping pictures. Pravinda Dai was busy taking 'the ek karod ko photo' and Jeevan Dai was all time ready to give the “babbal” pose for the picture. During the walk Badri Dai let us know us through our zodiac signs. He helped us recognize ourselves in a different manner and taught us different perception of life. That was also one of the remarkable achievements of the day.

The fields and farms full of ripen oranges were all eye...

Besides the temple of Goddess Manakamana another attraction of Manakamana was juicy and tasty oranges. The fields and farms full of ripen oranges were all eye catching. A school there named “Suntala bari Vidhyalaya” seemed funny to me. The way to Manakamana was all full of tedious steps but climbing those steps up was very much exciting. Stepping up high hill and still very high. My goodness - finally we were there, after all ups and only ups we reached the Manakamana temple, the ultimate destination of the hike, then we did our “pujas”, prayers and then rushed hurriedly to catch the cable car since it was about to close. While moving down in cable car, I realized how high we had hiked, we were really great! Reaching Kulintar we got into our coach and moved on. There in Malekhu we had our yummy dinner. On our return drive Pravinda dai's song 'mai chori sundari' amused all of us. Summarizing the day it went on fantastic, the day left me with the memories that will be cherished for the rest of my life and I’m happy to own them.

01 Morning glories	02 Expensive Breakfast
03 Charging before hike	04 Recharging
05 Get set goo	06 Marshyang-di river
07 crystal clear	08 Sunsan pool
09 Beauties of the hike	10 poses in jhulunge pool
11 will have leaves in few months	12 Pani ko ad gardai
13 Say no to cable car	14 Local hikers vanda hami agadi hurray
15 Never ending stairs	16 Sabai jana tauko nikala ta
17 Pravinda dai eata hernus	18 Thanx 4 Photo
19 Orange trail	20 Hamro pyaro ghar
21 stairs made of tree trunk	22 traditional balance
23 Kada photo	24 Ek karod ko Photo
25 What a flattered smile	26 yo chain 2 crore ko
27 garo sarai nai thado bhayo bato	28 Feri khudkila ayaecha
29 yahain samma ta pugen	30 Ma sikauchu timiharulai hike ko technique
31 Late hikers	32 Ashutosh dai lead ma !!!!!
33 reeeeeeeeest	34 Fungus inside the fanta bottle1
35 Fungi Detail	36 local chickens
37 hera na hera makurako jalo	38 seems he want to be in frame
39 Photo please	40 Where is everybody looking at
41 what actually are they doing	42 Gaint behind
43 Waiting for you guys	44 Boganvillia
45 waiting for sun	46 Mero Fool ko foto khichus na
47 Merry Chrismas	48 Orangy Boom
49 ali sano bhayena raaaa	50 butterfly ..bf what color do you like
51 Suntala bari school	52 No don't jump from there my dear
53 Aeeya sarai garo vayo	54 Aba dheri baki chaina we nearly reached
55 Thakaeko ki pose paraeko hummmm	56 Sharing is Loving
57 Hamile mandir dekhyam	58 Manakamana Mai Temple
59 showing devotion	60 Single bell
61 Gingle bell	62 Wishlist
63 Ashutosh dai bhauju ko lagi gift khoijdai	64 Ashutosh ramro gift paunu vayaena kina senti
65 Gaint trun holy	66 Laa srijana chutyo
67 But said yes to cable car	68 snap from cable car
69 sun set from cable car, manakamana	70 Professional hikers