3 Vaidyakot

Day-3 Dec-22: Ganguni - Pinder River 1844M - Patak Village - Vaidyakot 2070M = 12Kms

We left Ganguni at 9:00am after a breakfast of Maggie. Initially we trekked along many ridges and then made a steep climb down to the Pindar river crossing it over a bridge (9:40am).

As we leave Ganguni, Anand poses with a school girl

Reaching the Pinder river

From the river we could see a bulldozer making the road from to Khati via Vaidyakot (click to see large)

Ramesh and Anand on Pindar River Bridge

Then a steep climb for another 3 hours, crossing several ridges to reach the Patak Village tea shop at 12:30pm where we stopped briefly for tea. Then after half hour after turning right around a ridge suddenly we saw Vaidyakot sprawled below in a huge valley of stepped terraces of fields of paddy.

Vaidyakot village in valley below - as we near it at 1:20PM

We had still to walk down considerable way to reach the main village square and a bit beyond to reach our Homestay. It was nice room with a cot-bed, dish-TV and power in the evenings, that I could use to re-charge all my camera batteries. The adjacent room was a kitchen that Debu used to cook our meals. Debu was keen for me to visit the famous Devi temple of this village, in the afternoon. It involved a climb of 300-400M to a hill top and I said I don't have the energy left to do that. So I gave my P&S camera to Anand and Ramesh who went up the hill and took many pictures.