Trek to Madmaheswar

Madmaheswar,

Valley Of Flowers

Valley of Flowers, lies on the Zanskar range of the West Himalayas in Uttarakhand state, declared a national park in 1982, which is inaccessible for most of the year as covered by Snow.It is famoused for its meadows of endemic alpine shrub,flowers and the variety of flora.The valley is home to many flowers like the Brahmakamal, the Blue Poppy and the Cobra Lily.

In 1931, Frank S. Smythe, Eric Shipton and R.L. Holdsworth,British mountaineers, lost their way while returning from a successful expedition to Mt.Kamet and reached the valley, which was full of flowers. He was attracted to the beauty of the area & so called it the "Valley of Flowers." He later wrote a book of the same name.

In 1939, Miss Margaret Legge, a botanist deputed by the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, arrived at the valley for further studies. While she was traversing some rocky slopes to collect flowers, she slipped off and was lost. Her sister later visited the valley and erected a memorial near the spot.

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Tunganath

Tungnath is the highest temple(12,073 ft)) in the world and is one of the five and the highest Panch Kedar temples located in the mountain range  in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand.

As per legend, when Panadavs felt guilty to kill their own relatives in Kurukshetra war,their kul guru advised them to confess their sin to Lord Shiva.The Pandavs went in search of Shiva who wanted to avoid Pandavas also.Shiva took the form of a bull and went into hiding in an underground safe haven at Guptakashi.After a long search Pandavas found Shiva's body in the form of bull's 5 body parts in 5 different Places.In Tunganath they found Shiva's Tung(arms).hump was found at Kedarnath,head appeared at Rudranath, navel and stomach surfaced at Madhyamaheshwar and his jata (hair or locks) at Kalpeshwar.

There are two road way to reach Tungnath from New Delhi, Rishikesh or Haridhwar.
one is via Guptakashi-Kund-Ukhimath-Chopta route and other via Badrinath- Gopeshwar-Mandal route.But the route via  Guptakashi-Kund-Ukhimath-Chopta is small and traffic free rather than second one.

Distance between Delhi to Chopta is approx 450 km after Chopta it is 3.5 km vertical zig-zag foot walking trek to Tungnath Temple which in mora than 1000 years old.

Our Preparation for Tunganath Trek
Day 1 (Delhi to Rishikesh)
Day 2 (Rishikesh to Chopta)
Day 3 (Chopta to Rudraprayag via Tunganath)