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Kedarkantha Winter Trek

Posted by Sidhiroy on September 02, 2021

 
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DEHRADUN TO SANKRI

It is a spectacular 210km drive that takes you through the most beautiful forests of Dehradun. Sankri village is located at an elevation of approximately 2,000m. The trek takes you through the Govind Pshu Vihar National park and is possible in any season. The trek takes you through lush grasslands in summer. In winter, it gives you stunning views of snow-covered forests and high Himalayan peaks. There are many trekking routes to Kedarkantha. You can leave the trek from Sankri or Kotgaon, or Gaichawan Gaon.

 

By road: This 10-hour drive takes you through dense forests, which become engulfed by snow in winter.

SANKRI TO JUDA LAKE

Juda Lake (also known as Juda ka Talab) is a high-altitude lake between Sankri and Kedarkantha. This pristine lake is surrounded densely by forests, making it an ideal camping spot for trekkers on this route. Legend has it that Lord Shiva untwisted the locks to create the tiny lake. The road climbs steeply after crossing Sankri village. Along the route, you might see locals doing their daily chores. Winter is when the lake freezes and the surrounding area is covered in snow. Beautiful photos can be taken by stopping at streams that run through green fields during summer.

 

JUDA LAKE TO KEDARKANTHA BASE CAMP

You will leave Juda ka Talab the following day to trek to the Kedarkantha Base Camp, approximately 4 km away. It will take approximately 3 hours to get to your destination if you walk at a moderate pace. It passes through pine and oak forests along steep ridges. In summer, the route will be dotted with shepherds' huts, but it becomes a magical white land in winter.

 

KEDARKANTHA BASE CAMP TO KEDARKANTHA PEAK AND BACK TO THE HARGAON CLAMP

 

Start the next day at a 6 km pace from the Kedarkantha base camp to reach the Kedarkantha peak at 3,800m.

This section is not easy, but once you reach the summit, it will be worth it. The 360-degree view of the surrounding peaks (Kala Nag, Bandarpoonch and Swargarohini) is amazing.After a rest, you can take photographs and then descend to the Hargaon camp (Horegaon), at 2,700m. You will reach this camp by evening. Here you will be staying.

HARGAON TO SANKRI VIA JUDA LAKE

The 6-km trek takes approximately four hours. Through dense pine forests, you will quickly descend approximately 800m. Winter will bring you through deep and soft snow. You can easily slide or run down the snow because of its steepness. Local hotels are available for overnight stays.

SANKRI TO DEHRADUN

Spend the final day on your trek exploring Sankri village and the beautiful forests of Uttarakhand. Before you head for Dehradun (around 200 km), make memories.

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Mehrangarh Fort | Biggest fort in Rajasthan

Posted by Kamal on September 02, 2021

 
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Mehrangarh Museum has a completely unique importance as a repository of the creative and cultural records of the huge regions of Central Rajasthan and Marwar-Jodhpur. The museum boasts exemplary examples of seventeenth, 18th and 19th century collections for the fields of Miniature Paintings, Arms and Armours, Textiles, Decorative Arts and Furniture.

 

The Museum includes seven Period Rooms i.E Sheesh Mahal, Phool Mahal, Takhat Vilas, Sardar Vilas, Jhanki Mahal, Dipak Mahal, Moti Mahal and six Galleries namely, Howdah Gallery, Palanquin Gallery, Daulat Khana, Painting Gallery, Textile Gallery and Arms Gallery.

To visit Mehrangarh, hire a taxi service in Jodhpur and go to explore the Mehrangarh Fort.

The Museum has additionally participated in many global exhibitions all over the global, showing and sharing the rich background of Marwar, and interacting with prestigious establishments in the subject.

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Art Classes for Kid that can Really Help Your Child

Posted by Art Adventures on August 25, 2021

 
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You can even get Homeschool Programs as per your needs. We additionally provide after college programming for kids age 8- 14 seeking out greater artwork know-how in special fields. ​ Adult lessons are geared towards growing a portray talent set the use of water color and acrylics- normally that specialize in surroundings and animal portray.

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Spirit of the Kikar Trees

Posted by Neha Gupta on August 19, 2021

 
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decided then and there that I would go and visit the Mangar Bani. 

Mangar Bani is among the few remaining pristine forest areas left in the Aravali hill ranges around Delhi and Haryana, in the misst of which the Delhi-Faridabad-Gurgaon highways also run. It is also a sacred grove and a Paleolithic archeological site, that has remained relatively untouched over the years. Villages do exist close to this eco-sensitive area. Despite its sensitive and important significance, governments in the past have not done enough to protect it. As it fell under the villages' jurisdictions, as common land or Panchayat land, the locals took some care till some decades ago, but slowly with increasing commercial activity, the area began to get affected. Environmentalists who are trying to protect the Aravalis from illegal or even legal mining, various forms of development and dangers have been concerned about it. 

I knew nothing about this place till very recently. Why suddenly then did I become interested in this place? Mangar Bani entered my imagination in the past weeks because of various things that occurred around me. Some relatives of mine live in Faridabad and we drove down to meet them - we have haltingly begun to make a few visits now in these pandemic days. To reach Faridabad we pass the ridge road, that includes parts of the Aravali’s protected, and not so protected sections. The Asola Bird Sanctuary is here and access to it has been recently re-opened. Conservationists have been working to improve these parts. This part of the hills, or what remains of them, has seen much destruction because of the typical type of highway development. There has been a growth in apartments, hotels and large farms for holding weddings. A few religious centers have also opened, there are also some Gaushalas. Beer and Wine shops have been always been around. Some villages have existed in these areas since long but have expanded - some legally some illegally - as constructions began or squatting families who work as serving classes in the newly growing apartments settled down. 

Most of these working class people bought plots of land from dubious owners who had taken this common or government land, or encroached forest land and converted it into plots. This time as we were visiting our relatives, we learnt that one such village, or sections of it were being demolished as they are in unauthorized land. There was much anger and protest among the slum residents. The families are lower middle class or poor. Many fall outside the rehabilitation criteria the authorities have decided on. They say, why are you removing us after years, when we have built pukka homes. We bought these plots with our own money. Investing the few lakhs they did is no small feat for a poor family. Its not an investment they can repeat again in this generation at least. If these lands were illegal why were we not stopped earlier, they ask? Fact is, everyone knows that these purchases were dubious, but is this not how the poor buy and settle into property in cities across India? It is wrong and sad. But this is how it is. 

Part of the reason to demolish these homes is that they come under forest area. There has been growing advocacy to save the Aravali range and its reducing forest cover in the past decade. Perhaps before it is too late, to finally bring some regulation in this endangered area. As usual though the attempts to clean up the situation hit the most vulnerable first. Not that that is an excuse to let them be. Tough decisions may be needed. Yet one has to wonder if some of the hotels, marriage halls and apartments – those who had to power to convert their also illegal or less legal purchases into legal ones – will they ever face the music? After all it is they who are pulling ground water, pulling on resources and creating deeper harm. And after all where the elite and middle class go, their serving class follows. 

Seeing all this I felt a sense of pain for this beautiful Aravali range and people in it. As a child I loved our drives though these hilly roads, it felt like a picnic. A mini trip to the hills without getting out of town. There are Nilgai, foxes and jackals, peacocks and porcupines living in these trees of kikar and babool – the trees that can survive and give coolness even in the harsh desert-like heat of Delhi. Migratory birds visit and even leopards were known to cross certain corridors here. Its not all about the forest area though. Even the village life adds a charm to the area. Even now one sees more local cow varieties, surely healthier and cleaner cows than usual, an occasional banjara family, people clad in local clothes heading about their business. Yet too, it is sad, that human interests and nature’s interests which can be one, are now against each other. We are made to choose, between people and trees - such has been our style of development – with no plan, no vision, everyone grabbing what they can, while they can. 

Just a few days later I read another breaking news about this area. In Mangar Bani - a different section of the Aravalis from the area getting demolished - Prehistoric cave paintings which appear to be dating to the Upper Paleolithic age have been found. That means that they are perhaps 20,000 to 40,000 years old (Before Present), older than Bhimbetka’s caves in Madhya Pradesh that are 10,000 years old. It is ironic indeed. In this one last bastion of undisturbed forest of the urban Aravali, this new finding has arisen. To some extent it is good – because finally there may be reason for governments to actively protect and preserve this area. But who knows, even this is after all human intervention. What shape will it take? 

The last few days it has been raining. In the pandemic we hardly go out anyway, and the humid rain wraps everything in a gentle and comforting mist. Sitting at home everything feels in balance. When you step out, the madness of the road is scary. Things were mad before too, and I even liked the hub-hub of the streets. Now it feels different. With much of the world in climate chaos, everything feels false, ready to break apart. As I look for new jobs, most seem so meaningless now. Why would anyone put their energies in selling a product, doing some new fancy research and what not. Where is life itself?

So Mangar Bani pulled me with a vague sense of meaning-ness. I met Rajeev (name changed), who works for a Wildlife Club, and has photographed the area a lot and actually was among those who ‘discovered’ the now exciting cave paintings. They had existed before the eyes of the villagers for decades but are now suddenly national news. We both walked among the path that his organisation takes people on nature walks for. The yellow, dry sand is now sticky after the rain. For a while at least. The trees drip a little. There is also plastic here and there, though it reduces as we go in. I wonder what will be the destiny of this area 10 years from now? As we approach the parts close to the sacred grove, our sense of wonder grows. The memory of another age, when man adjusted to nature, rather than the other way round. When there was a silence which today’s children know nothing of.

Maybe even then human hearts beat with a sense of longing and desire to know the world. Maybe they too fought the forest, feared it and attacked it. So maybe they weren't any better than us. For us though both those humans and the trees have become one, a combined and maybe constructed nostalgia whose ochre imprints are drawn as ancient art on the cave walls. 

We both meet here the friend who walks with us always, but whom we hear not. The silent companion, the communion of humans and nature, because we are one, both in our coexistence and our destruction.  Humans fight each other, rich often get away and the poor suffer. But the poor too are violent. What else will they be – this is the structure of our world. Conquer to survive. All because we cannot hear our constant friend. In the sacred grove we meet and we can hear. The spirit of the Kikar trees. Of a Delhi that has seen so much destruction that is has become numb to it. In the mist of the rain during the pandemic we can feel it. It tells us that all things are in a web and if we saw this, felt this, we will just stop in awe. But how can we?

In the Aravalis still the cacophony remains – hotels, farmhouses, miners, wine shops, slums, gaushalas,  ashrams, masjids. So many agendas, even  well-meaning, yet so divided. And here do emerge these prehistoric paintings. Such beauty, where will it find place in this ugliness? Is its discovery a celebration or an ugly joke? We three wonder silently. 

Note: This is a fictional story. I did not actually meet anyone (only in spirit). Also, since i wrote this piece, there have been initiatives to even take action against other illegal structures in this area, not just the slum. Date: 8th August 2021http://redpeachtree.blogspot.com/2021/07/spirit-of-kikar-trees.html?m=1

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The plantation is good for the Environment

Posted by Angela Getty on August 18, 2021

 
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Desert camp in Jaisalmer | Camp in Jaisalmer

Posted by mahaveer singh on August 13, 2021

 
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It's my personal experience last months my friends go to Jaisalmer. we choose the best desert camp in Jaisalmer we found that Garh Rajputana is one of the Desert camps/safari in Jaisalmer.

I suggest all for you if you want to Jaisalmer tour, Garh Rajputana is best for you.

Desert camp in Jaisalmer is the Best Desert Camp in India. The camp is located on the edge of Thar Desert and away from city noises. We have everything to make your stay memorable in this pristine desert. This is a place for people who want to spend some quality time with their special ones.

Set in the heart of Jaisalmer's desert, Camp Garh  Rajputana is a place to enjoy a spellbinding experience of India's cultural diversity and heritage. This Destination Rajasthan desert camp offers the right blend of luxury and privacy.

 

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How is Kedarkantha trek?

Posted by capture-a-trip on August 02, 2021

 
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Kedarkantha trekking trip is famous for being a winter trek. For beginners autumn months are the best for trekking as the weather will be pleasant with some lovely views of Himalayas. The temperature during the autumn months varies between minimum of 2 degrees to a maximum of 15 degrees Celsius during the day time.

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Mehrangarh Fort

Posted by Priya on July 29, 2021

 
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Mehrangarh Fort

The foundation of Jodhpur started right from here.  The fort was constructed was Maharaja Rao Jodha . Like Amber fort, it too has sweeping courtyards, intricately adorned windows & walls, carved panels, lifelike paintings, imposing bastions, large ramparts, and meticulous art galleries that will allure you at the first sight itself. One of these seven gates still bears the imprints of cannon balls which were bombarded during the enemy attacks. Do you know- Meharangarh Fort rendered its imperial beauty to the Hollywood movie ‘The Dark Night Rises’. Within the premises of fort, there are some other amazingly marvelous palaces such as Moti Mahal, Sheesh Mahal, and Phool Mahal. Meharangarh Fort is one such place in Jodhpur that has stood the test of time retaining its majesty

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The Way to Generate a Evaluation of a Poem

Posted by Kevin25 on July 04, 2021

 
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The Way to Generate a Evaluation of a Poem

 

A lot of men and women say they do not enjoy poetry because they do not know it. Though poems possess a fundamental narrative or concept, there's frequently an underlying narrative or message which must be examined by analyzing the poem. As soon as you analyze the poem, then you'll get a better comprehension of this, and might discover that you love and revel in poetry over you believed you did.

 

Read the poem carefully. Compose a few notes which describe the fundamental narrative of this poem. To be able to comprehend the deeper significance of this poem, you need to first know the simple narrative.

 

Read the poem . Compose a few notes on your psychological impression of this poem and the way it makes you feel. Your own personal response and individual experiences give rise to your own analysis of a poem.

 

Describe the speaker of this poem. A poem isn't always written by the perspective of this poet. Discovering the speaker will be able to help you realize the point of view of this poem.

 

Make a few notes regarding the tone of this poem. The tone is the way the poet addresses the poem. It is expressed as a emotion. By way of instance, tone might be mournful, joyful, playful or ironic.

 

Compose a paragraph or two describing any topics from the poem. A motif is an abstract notion the poem centers round is a recurring thought within it. By way of instance, 1 motif in Shakespearean sonnets will be love.

 

Make a few notes about any tradition which appears in the bible. A logo is something which represents something different from the poem. By way of instance, winter may signify the end of existence.

 

Inspect the language of this poem. How poets use language could impact the evaluation of a poem. Word choice, syntax, punctuation and characters of speech are used to produce the poem. The way the poet utilizes them will help you realize the poem .

 

Make notes regarding the vision in this poem. Poetry is all about expertise, and artists use vision to supply you with the expertise that they have when composing it. Imagery employs all five senses, and the way you respond to some poem's vision impacts your general awareness of this.

 

Inspect the construction of this poem. Including the meter and rhyme scheme of this poem, even if either exist. By way of instance, a Shakespearean sonnet includes three stanzas of four lines plus a last couplet.

 

Inspect the genre of this poem. The genre that the poet selects leads to the general experience of this poem.


Study the warrior's own life. Learning about the life span of this poet can help you understand the poem.Actyally if you need to find free papers on your topic, please try to ivymoose.com

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THINGS TO KNOW WHILE PLANNING OUTSTATION ROAD TRIP

Posted by Kamal on June 21, 2021

 
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If you are planning an outstation road trip, whether for the weekend or more days, it is important that you take care of some things and carry the essentials. It is okay to drive yourself for short routes, but going for long routes come with its own set of responsibilities. For instance, if your outstation road trip is planned for more than three days, you will need to drive a lot, see the navigation, find a place for parking wherever you go, etc. 

It is better and more convenient to book an outstation taxi. Along with hiring the right cab for your outstation road trip, you have to take care of a number of crucial things. We have created a quick checklist of all such things to ensure that you don’t get stressed about anything.

More Read: Cab services in Jodhpur

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