Churdhar Trek

Churdhar is the highest peak of the outer Himalayas, situated at churdhar sanctuary, Shimla. The total distance of this trek is about 30-35 Km, through the lovely grasslands and forests all the way to a Shiva idol atop the mountain.

After the exam, me and my friend were restless to go someplace which is adventures and beautiful at the same time. We came to know about the churdhar trek. So we went for this trek. As we were having limited money we decided not to halt anywhere.

We started our journey from Delhi, We took a bus from ISBT Delhi to Solan, as I am from Himachal also so I know pretty well about the places there. The bus leaves the ISBT Delhi at 8 am and our journey started. We reach Solan at around 4 pm, our plan was to go to the Nohradhar directly and stay there and start our trek early in the morning, but unfortunately we came to know that last bus to Nohradhar has already left, so we decided to stay in Solan for a night and take the first bus to Nohradhar early morning, the first bus to Nohradhar was at 6:15 am next day so, we looked for a cheap hotel and we got one just 700 per night, you can also bargain because they are flexible with price. 

Next day we took the bus to Nohradhar. We stepped in the bus, and the bus was pretty empty, but in no time it got crowded but fortunately we got the seats. The Road is not that good to the Nohradhar. At Rajgarh ( a place between Solan and Nohradhar) the bus got over crowded, so the conductor sad all the young people to go for the roof all the people including us just ran for the roof of the bus, it was my first bus roof journey and it was epic. While we were traveling we came to know all of the people sitting on the roof top were going to the Churdhar also. The view from the top of the bus was amazing, the mountains, the greenery, the weather everything was perfect. We reach Nohradhar  at 10 am after the breakfast we brought some fruits for the journey.

We started our trek at 10.30 am. The first few kilometer is difficult because your body is not adapted to walk in the acclivity, so we started slow, slowly we left the Nohradhar far behind and the thin forest started. As we approach further the path becomes less steep, and now we were pacing a little bit. the forest  becomes dense and the view more beautiful as we were approaching. We reached  a place with two huts at both sides of the path in the green field, which ere actually a small dhabha, we rested there for a small time and start our journey. In no time we left the forest behind and took the green grassy path. Now we were able too see Shiva idol at top of the mountain. Now we came to point where we need to decide to take a shortcut which was an almost vertical path or takes a long cut which was an easy path but we need to go around the mountain to reach for the Shiva idol. so we take the Shortcut that was very bad idea because that was very steep and we were having rest in every 10 steps but eventually, we reach the top, and the view was amazing, we reach the top at 4 pm, i take the blessing f Lord Shiva and went to the dharmashal where people were in the line for the blanket we also stood in the line and took our place in the dharmashal. The night there was very cold and there was no electricity, our phone ran out of battery. In the night i get a pleasant sleep. In dinner you can have "langger" which is free from the temple committee, otherwise there are few small dhabas where you can eat.

Early in the morning at around 6am, we start to come down to nohradhar and we made it to nohradhar in just 3 hours. All in all it was a great experience and was a very cheap trek, that every student can afford I just spend 2500 for this trek.

Here is some pic from the trek........