Kailash Manasarovar Yatra 2011 - Batch 1 - Day 17

Jun 14 2011 – Day 17

Journey – Dehrapuk to ZongZerbu – 24 kms by trek – via Dolma pass and Gauri kund

We got up early in the morning got ready – there was some kind of uneasiness since today is the first day of our open toilet system. But sooner we realized that you can nothing about it and went on as usual business.

We continued our yatra towards Dolma pass. It was steep upward ascent; testing all our faiths and fitness. Only with the help of God we can cross this Dolma pass. We chanted the mantra frequently and continued our yatra. We had good number of Tibetan yatris who were travelling with us; and some of the foreign tourists also. The Tibetans were visiting the shrine because of the Shiv rathri function. According to the Tibetan calendar once in 16 years this type of Shiv rathri comes. We considered very lucky since on the Shiv rathri we are in abode of Mount Kailash – Om Namo Shivaya.

At Dolma Pass we spent only a few minutes and started our downward journey. You need to climb down. From Dolma Pass you can witness Gauri Kund where Ma Parvati believed to take bath. We witnessed Gauri kund and proceeded to climb down. We asked our porters to pick up holy water from Gauri kund and continued our yatra.

From this we had to climb down for about half an hour. After that the terrain becomes flat and we had trek. This is one of the longest trail that we had to negotiate.

By around 1700 hrs we reached our camp at Zongzerbu and stayed there. The facilities at the Zongzerbu is also very basic and open toilet system.