Hey everyone hope you all are doing well I was not able to post for a long time due to some work but now I am back on track sharing with you another blog about a place traveled by me the place is known as kheerganga it is situated in Himachal Pradesh
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Kheerganga valley is named after the river kheerganga it is located in Kullu Himachal Pradesh at an elevation of 13000 feet.
The story behind the name of kheerganga is quite interesting.
it all started on the day when Lord Ganesha and Lord Karthikey were challenged to a race around the world. They were fighting to determine which one of them had a faster vehicle.Now, Lord Kartikey did a roundabout around the world while Lord Ganesha simply took a round of Lord Shiva and Devi Parvati.
Which in turn impressed both the gods and they were so impressed with Lord Ganesha that they acclaimed that from now on Lord Ganesha is the God who’ll have to be served first in any kind of important prayers, whatsoever they be.
So, in conclusion, Lord Ganesha actually won without even participating in the race and this made Lord Karthikey go in a state of a conundrum. Due to which he decided to go into meditation all alone in the Parvati Valley.
But when Devi Parvati heard the news of her elder son going into meditation without much preparation, she got worried. To which she decided that for the sake of her elder son’s fooding, she’ll be having a river full of milk across the Parvati valley.
Now, Lord Karthikey did his meditation and through all that time, he had no problem with his appetite as hed a river full of milk, all to himself.
But there was a problem when his time at Parvati Valley was over and he was about to move out. It’s that the milk river or let’s call it Doodh Ganga, which was the original form of Kheerganga, was still there. And in the upcoming ‘Kalyug’, it was most definite that it’ll be misused.
So, to solve this problem, Lord Shiva called upon Rishi Parshuram and told him to take a look at the Doodhganga. To which, he immediately headed to the Doodhganga and observed the marvel himself. Also, he decided to make an offering to the god and himself too.
So, he poured some rice and other ingredients into a pot to make some kheer, an Indian sweet dish. And he used the milk from the river to prepare that special kheer.
But to his dismay, even before he could’ve taken a bite, the pot he was keeping the kheer in, fell and got spilled into the Doodhganga.
This made the Parshuram immensely angry. As he started to show his infuriating side, the gods decided to go and stop him before anything happens.
So, when the whole bunch of gods came across Parshuram and asked him what was the matter? He replied that someone did this mishap on purpose and he did not like that a bit.
But Lord Shiva told him to take a deep look at the situation and check if there was something else at play? To which he listened and got into a state of deep meditation.
Upon doing that, he could hear the laughing voice of Doodhganga who appeared to be a playful little girl. Now, it was clear that she did this on purpose but in a light-hearted playful manner.
Now, Parshuram got more infuriated and cursed the Doodhganga. He announced that she would be called Kheerganga from now on, taking away her identity. Also, he sealed her away for the whole kalyug.
He also claimed that during the Satyug, she would have to appear back. But before that, she had to be in hiding. This is how Kheerganga was created out of chaos and formed into what we see today at the Parvati valley.
This was the whole story behind the kheerganga so we were so impressed by the story that we decided to visit the place I and my 4 friends planned this trip in a short time and decided to go there by bus at night
we reached a place known as manikaran where we ate our breakfast and then took a taxi to kheerganga base
It is a short trek of about 4-5 hours not that steep easily trackable
so we started the trek early in the morning at 7 we were fully charged had packed our lunch with us and we were planning to stay at the top for the night so we had our tents packed we were completely geared for this trek
The trek was just getting better as we were passing through the jungle the nature was at its best as it rained last night
The villages around kheerganga are at a good elevation to grow apples so the main occupation of people living there was apple farming
We were not allowed to eat an apple from the trees by the locals but somehow the apples tempted us soo much that we could not resist ourselves and got some apples to eat
Some homes were very old some of them were in the critical situations they could fall anytime some were abandoned
we could only see beautiful vegetation all around when we passed through the villages the people were also good there
There were some local temples on the way we were unable to visit them all but visited some of them
we ate our lunch around 11 as we're very close to our destination we were early there as we started early in the morning there we could see hot springs all around
we reached a good place to camp so decided to collect some wood and pitched our tents and were having fun doing things there
it was going to be night so we decided to put on the fire we had plenty of wood with us we enjoyed the night pretty well but the morning was just amazing cant be described in words
it was peaceful and pleasant all around.
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