Twelve Things Only Adventure Addicts Will Understand

Adventure is your fuel, the 9-to-5 life is just a way to get by.

1. People save for their big fat Indian wedding, investing in oh-so-important property and gold jewellery, but not you. You save up for your dream trips.

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2. You memorize all the long weekends of the year and have an adventure planned for each. 

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3. Your friends dream about a romantic vacation to Paris, and you’re like, “Himalayas! I want to go trekking in the Himalayas.”  

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4.  And when a friend suggests that he/she would rather stay in bad all weekend watching movies, than going out for a cycling trip, you laugh uncontrollably and are like:

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5. Constantly checking for plane ticket fares and package deals online, is not your hobby anymore. It’s a habit you can’t shake off. 

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6. You want your life to be a series of adventures and whenever getting out for a trip or planning one isn't possible in the near future, you feel like you are at a standstill. 

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7. You are unsure about going to watch the latest 100 Crore movie, but you jump at the chance of trying White Water Rafting, Mountain Biking, Camping and Trekking. 

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8. When people tell you that they understand what you mean because they watched the sun setting in the Himalayas on the Discovery Channel, you are like: 

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  9. Like sutta (ciggi) friends, who bond over smoking zones, sharing a cigarette, you make friends with people who love to travel or have traveled to the same places as you.  

 

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  10. A campfire in the wilderness is more appealing than a party in a five star hotel. Like,really.

 

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If you love camping and campfires too, you just can’t miss this.

11. When you watched this movie, you told everyone that this is actually Kashmir and not Manali. What, you didn’t know? Well, now you do (details here) and now you will tell people. Every time. 

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12. You want to go skiing very often, wanting to improve your ski skills, even when people tell you that it’s useless in India.

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Best and safest skiing in India here. You can also take a skiing course. Book now!

Okay, we know we said 12, but here's a bonus point for you:

13. You know there’s no cure for wanderlust and you’re happy for it, because hey, that’s your fuel! 

 

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The Valley of Flowers

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In 1931,  after a successful expedition to mount Kamet, British mountaineer, Frank Smythe, along  with a bunch of fellow British mountaineers accidentally chanced upon the Bhyundar Valley in Garhwal. He called it "The Valley of Flowers." Later he authored a book on the valley by the same name and brought this picturesque Garden of Eden to the notice the world. Ever since, the moniker has stuck. The Valley of Flowers was established as a national park in 6 November 1982.

The park is administered by the Uttarakhand State Forestry Department, the national Ministry of Environment and Forests, India. There is no settlement in the national park and grazing in the area has been banned since 1983.

Climate
The park is open only in summer from June to October, as it is covered by heavy snow for the rest of the year.

Conditions are generally dry with low annual precipitation, but there is heavy monsoon rainfall from late June to early September. Prevailing mist and low cloud during the monsoon keeps the soil moist, hence the vegetation is lusher than is usual in the drier inner Himalayan valleys. From mid April to June temperatures are moderate to cool (19°C maximum).
There is often dense fog and rain especially during the late summer monsoon.

Vegetation
The valley has three main vegetation zones:
1. Sub-alpine between 3,200m and 3,500m which is the limit for trees
2. Lower alpine between 3,500m and 3,700m
3. Higher alpine above 3,700m.

The habitats include valley bottom, riverbed, small forests, meadows, eroded, scrubby and stable slopes, moraine, plateau, bogs, stone desert and caves. The lower surrounding hills in the buffer zone are thickly forested.

The Forest Research Institute in 1992 recorded 600 species of angiosperms (herbaceous plants, shrubs, grasses, and most trees) and 30 pteridophytes (ferns) in the valley and surroundings, discovering 58 new records for the valley of which 4 were new for Himalayan Uttar Pradesh.

Orchids, poppies, primulas, marigold, daisies and anemones flourish in the valley. One can also find many species of medicinal plants.

Fauna
A few nationally endangered wild animals inhabit the Valley of Flowers although the density of such animals is not very high in the region.

Thirteen species of mammals have been recorded to have been spotted in the valley some of which are Red giant flying squirrel (Petaurista Petaurista), Himalayan black bear (Ursus Thibetanus), Red fox (Vulpes vulpes), Himalayan weasel (Mustela Sibirica), Himalayan yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula), Himalayan Goral (Naemorhedus), Himalayan musk deer (Moschus leucogaster), Indian Chevrotain (Moschiola Indica), Himalayan Tahr or Wild Goat (Hemitragus Jemlahicus).

How to make Himalayan Ice Lolly

Lo and behold the Himalayan Ice Lolly!

Quirks of a frequent Himalayan traveller (one of our clients) trying to initiate the joys of the mountains and trekking to his son and nephew.

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Loved the idea.