The rays of wintery-warm sun penetrated the obscured clouds just before we touched the bottom of our
one-day hiking spot-‘Sankhu’ from where we were to hike to reach the roof of Nagarkot. It was already 9 am and we, the 9 hikers, in, for the hiking event coordinated by DineshB reached our starting point.

We’d have searched almost whole Sankhu bazar before getting in to a local sweet shop where we had our reveling breakfast. It was barely conspicuous the two hills we were to hike because of the engrossing pollutants in the atmosphere.

Straight ahead to the East from ‘Sankhu’ we reached the ‘Panchmeshwori’ temple at the bank of the beautiful river ‘Shalinadi’. The temple looked a variant of ‘Pagoda’ style and humorous analysis of NavinM uttered as though it might have been modeled by drunken sculptors! RaviS and AsimS- the enthusiastic photographers, like miniatures capturing every details of microcosm nature.

Ahead of us were three routes: two so-heard cycling and thru-Shreeban routes and the third as guided by our co-coordinator and the local people. We stepped up for the cycling route but later we came to know that we were just walking the common graveled road. We did not know where the ‘Shreeban’ was located but one senile woman informed us that we had already crossed it! Then we started up to follow odd trails making our own way through the jungles asking the locals in the way to our destination. DineshB once asked a school kid, “Vai yo bato kata pugchha?(where does this road go?)”. The student pompously replied, “Yo bato ta mero ghar pugcha.”(this road reaches my home)

DineshB once asked a school kid, “Vai yo bato kata pugchha?(where does this road go?)”. The student pompously replied, “Yo bato ta mero ghar pugcha.”(this road reaches my home)

It was a bit difficult climbing the high hills but a lot of resting sessions helped us to maintain pace. Sometimes routes were misleading, ending either to a house or a cow villa! Reverting and finding the way was an unassigned, undeclared task for me and RaviS. The key to good navigation was obvious: we could see the roof of Nagarkot—the direction. All along the way we traversed many patches of jungles, encountered the trail of caterpillar, alluring beauty of ‘Aaru flowers’, little kidos of goat, puppies, schoolchildren, marriage-jovial-houses etc. etc. to reach finally the roof of Nagarkot—the tower.

From the tower, we could see a few black-spotted mountains as a result of climate change, the greenery around it, one of its few remedies, barely visible scenes, and some lovebirds.

From the tower, we could see a few black-spotted mountains as a result of climate change, the greenery around it, one of its few remedies, barely visible scenes, and some lovebirds.

Then we enthusiastically went to visti the planetarium but there found the answer “Yaha auna ta Singhadarbar ko pass chahincha”.

Then we finally killed our hunger with condimental local ‘Khana.’ with local Dal Vhat and local Kukhura. By 5 pm, we returned calm soothing our brains. All in all our hike was more thrilling, exciting than expected.

01- the golden gate	02-The Dragon Gate
03- aha gayu sau jeri	04-ok 25-26-27 n finally caught
05-kathmandu in the front	06-gas paiyena k garne ta
07-love birds	08-house_full for movie hike today
09- Panchmeshwori mandir	10-other side of panchameswori
11-beneath the Panchameshwori temple	12- shaalinadi flowing through the jungles
13-resembling gosainkunda	14-hike starts here
15- my mercedez benz	16-feel the dew
17-harley davison,so says dinesh	18-morning beauty
19-Sankey leader of 3	20- i have still 7 lives left
21-nai malai tehi…choclate chahinchha	22- Photographer thinking ‘why didnt i take the route like R-Madhwan in 3idiots’
23-wow..makaiko bhandar	24-do you want to play with us..no entry for adults
25-Mero pani single yeuta	26-could not break the speed of time
27-akashai ma chil udyo dharti ma chaya	28-Guess who
29-who can ignore..survival of the fittest	30- here is the way to nagarkot
31-miharuko himmat chha bhane malai bahira nikalera dekhau..	32-jasle jityo tyasle payo
33-someone’s missing in the row	34- Finally got the Perfect shot
35- local maling doko	36-difficult to identify
37-following dynamic route	38-Each time my heart smiles, my life enjoys expanding mile
39-yo ta mero ghar jastai cha ni	40-taking rest
41- bipin relaxing	42-aba yo baato mero ho ki..navayepani bichmai hidchhu j parla parla
43- there goes our d2van	44- the perfect tree
45-your camera has mirror effect…….	46- ready for pose
47- i m at the top	48-Sanket in dielema (should i climb or not..)
49-haami dinma duipatak golgate le brush garchhau	50-lined up for a photo session
51-u tyaha mathi hera…..	52- yaha jana lai ta singhadurbar bata permit chahincha
53- third buddha is the photographer	54-Peace of Mind
55-The bestest meal in the world	56- sa…huni discount gari dinu na dherai bhaye reimburse hudaina
57-the mirror view	58-see the clouds and guess the location…we are at chabhilway,way to return