EP 2 Himrol Village to Janki Chatti, Yamunotri Dham | Uttarakhand Char Dham Yatra

On Day 2 of our Uttarakhand Char Dham Yatra, we started our journey for Janki chatti, which is the base point for Yamunotri Dham.

Usually people make it to Janki Chatti on day 1 and next day they go to Yamunotri Dham, since we were invited for Garhwali marriage at a village, we are doing this journey on day 2.

We lost more than 4 hours on this day because we got stuck in traffic jam, lesson we learn was that one should start early and end the journey early, means reach the destination by 4 pm.

Following are the details of the places visited by us during this tour.

Himrol Village: We stayed at a home stay at this village. This is about 30 km out of Yamunotri Dham route.
Following are the details of the food we had in breakfast.

Multigrain Roti (Combination of Wheat, Mandua, Red Rice & Ram Dana)
Pahadi Rajma
Aloo Mushroom (Made From Dry Mushroom)
Honey
Apple Chutney
Herbal Tea

Room Tariff: 1000 per person including Breakfast and Dinner
Bharat Rana: 9639827574
Address: Himrol Village, Uttarakhand, 249171

Location: https://tinyurl.com/yyt6l7qv

Barnigad: This is the diversion point from where one road goes to Yamunotri Dham and other one goes to Himrol village, this is a beautiful location. One should have a look at scenic beauty from this point.

Location: https://tinyurl.com/y4k4l28u

Lakha Mandal: Hilstory of this place is linked to Pandavas of Mahabharat, locals told me that they are told by their ancesstors that Pandavas have visited Lakha Mandal 3 times during their life time and this place was built by them.

Location: https://tinyurl.com/y5k7k3nb
Janki Chatti: This is the base point for Yamunotri Dham yatra.
Yamunotri Dham is 5 km from Janki chatti. You can take a pony ride or decide to walk down , though its uphill, you will need good stamina to do so.

Location: https://tinyurl.com/yybxgz74

Important note with regard to mode of travelling and travel cost.

Drivers usually charge extra money for going to places like Mana village or Panch kedar or Panch Badri but for us it was all part of 4500 per day deal.

Best time to travel for char Dham yatra is mid august to september end. We did this journey from 13th May 2019 to 10th June 2019- this is not the best time, May means a lot of traffic jam. Mid June to 15th Aug is monsoon time - avoid hills.

Cost Details:
Innova Per day hire cost: Rs 4500.
One day stay at Himrol village Rs 1000 per person
We had meal in between but that’s not shown in the video because i found nothing special worth doing a video record.
At min cost basis it works out to Rs 6000 for Day 1.

Overall Tour cost approx indicators:

Innova per day cost: Rs 4500.
Average per day meal cost per person: 800.
Average room tariff: Rs 1700 to Rs 2200. Generally on this route single person accommodation is not available, so solo travellers end up paying more.
Average parking cost per day: Rs 100 ( at Char Dham destinations).

We did this tour with Gangotri Travels:

Good thing we noticed: Driver was disciplined, like ready for travel at 5 am, Guiding us on how to plan the journey, which is definitely a plus for a traveller, plus maintaining vehicle - neat and clean.

Thing that agency needs to improve: At a point during the journey i wanted to speak to them on a particular issue and realised that they are too busy to take customer calls but for this event rest of the things were fine with clean transactions.

Above costs are for the month of May till 15th June. Thereafter all costs generally drop by 20 to 30 percent.

Our cost was way too high, there is so much in miscellaneous cost that occurs in any trip. Any ways above figures are indicators only.
Hope you enjoyed watching this first episode of Char Dham Yatra.

Yamunotri Dham, Religious points in Himalaya, Route to Char Dham North India, Garhwali breakfast, Garhwali Rajma, Pahadi food, food of Himalaya, Himalayan food, food of hills,

Hope you enjoyed watching this episode, thanks for your time, regards
Harish Bali

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