I am Maninder Gupta completed my b.tech from NIT Durgapur in West Bengal.
In my b.tech final year we got full december as holidays, few friends of mine and I are staying in college, so to feel some refreshment my friend prakash and I wanted to go to tour for 3 days. Then we opened India map and ruled out some places as we cant go due to time constraint and last we were left with darjeeling and guwahati. We saw on internet that there is 2 days trek in darjeeling which costs 6000 rupees where all the stuff like clothing, shelter and food will be provided and we were excited and want to go to darjeeling for trekking. From durgapur we need to go place called siluguri and then to darjeeling. And two more friends want to come with us and now we are four. Next day itself we booked tickets to siluguri by bus and went there. And from there we have reach Darjeeling by sumo. And finally we reached darjeeling at 12 noon. We made prebooking of hotel in darjeeling.
We don't know anything about trekking and prakash and me are in sandals. We went to some guys we will make arrangements for trekking and we came to know that there is a Trek called Sandakpu and Phalut trek which takes 6 days to complete and food costs around 300 rupees per meal and room costs 200 to 300 per person per day and guide takes 800 per day, he comes along with us and shows the route. This is all the information we know and we don't have enough money to afford 300 per meal and we don't know how places will be where we are trekking. We all started with zero knowledge about places. Just word trekking made us exited and also they said that we can see base of kangchenjunga mountain and can see everest regions, those excited us and we wanted to stay in tent.
As we went with less money we decided to take food by our selves. So we went to nearest more and bought stuff like magie, kurkure, bread, jam, milk packets, milk powder, coffee packet and stuff like this. As we don't have trekking shoes, we bought 2 pairs of woolen socks for each and we all are set for trekking.
Next day morning 10 am we started our trekking, We met our guide, he looked so serious, we though it is going to be bored trip but it hasn't gone in that way. Our guide showed how many kilometers we have to walk and what are the places we are going to stay for next 6 days and what are the altitudes of that places.
We walked 83 kms in six days and our highest altitude is 3500 kms where we can see ocean of clouds.
How the six days went will be published further.
It is only of the place and many more exiting experiences are coming next.
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