Feb 25, 2017 01:20 PM
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While We were traveling towards Garhwal region in OCTOBER 2015, we had a plan to trek towards Tungnath temple. Tungnath was our last trek, a trek of around 3km to complete.
We had just completed deovariya taal trek a couple of hours earlier and now we were starting a climb up again towards TUNGNATH TEMPLE.
It is a climb up of about 3km from Chopta, quite steep in some places. If you are not able to trek such distances, horses and mules are available too. Tungnath being a temple of Shiva, there are lots of devotees you meet on the way and it was a pleasant trek in nature. During the climb, we scouted in some shaded areas where sunlight falls only a little. It had snowed a few days ago and the remnant of the snow were still around hardened as ice.
It took us around 2 hours to complete the trek which ended by us visiting the temple and offer our prayers to ARMS of Lord Shiva. We rested for some time, had something to eat as all of us were very hungry and then began our descent down to Chopta.
HOW TO REACH
Chopta is located on the road to Ukhimath-Gopeshwar. It is approaching way to Kedarnath via Gopeshwar from Chamoli and Tungnath is 3Km trek from Chopta.
WHERE TO STAY
ONLY PRIVATE GUEST AVAILABLE THERE SO, CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY BEFORE DEPARTURE.
VISIT TIME
Best season is visiting there is April – October. Rest of the year it is difficult to reach there due to snowfall, however while the route is open between November –December but Tungnath Temple has been closed for winter season.
