Kakani to Chauthe to Damahdhunga
By: Administrator
Participants: SharadP, Prabhakar, Hitesh, Basu, Mahesh, Bishwa, Charu, Rajendra, Devendra and Vishnu
Route: Kakani to Chauthe to Damahdhunga
Time: 8 hour
Distance: 14 miles (Apprx)
Date: Sunday, June 03, 2007
Report: Prabahkar
Photos: Prabhakar, Basu, Hitesh, and Bishwa
Captions: Vishnu
Creative Support: BinayaN, and Dovan
This hiking was one of the unique in its kind in terms of lots of different experiences that the hikers came across during the nine-hour trail from Kakani to DamahDhunga. Climate wise it differed from scintillating heat to begin with, to heavenly cool breeze during the course, and welcoming drizzle at the end. Trail wise it ranged from 70 degrees brake fail descent to 70 degrees vertical ascent with lovely village terrain comprising of lush green farms, rivers, springs and jungles. The most interesting part was the lunch that was cooked in a school principal house by his wife, which is seldom a part of normal Sunday hiking. Finally, it carried along a noble cause of surveying a local school in Chauthe village to access their needs and extending support in future for improving educational facility for the locals.
The group of 9 hikers set out for Kakani at 7 AM. Mr. Devendra Adhikari (Surendra’s brother), Mr. Ramsaran Rai (a teacher from Chauthe village) and his son also accompanied the team. After a 20-minute stoppage on the way for breakfast, the team reached Kakani at around 8:30 AM. It was a pleasant Sunday morning.
The starting trail was a mild descent from a height of about five and a half thousand feet with steep rocky slope on right and scenery green valley on the left beautified by the terrace fields and mountain trees. With fresh pair of legs, the first one and a half hour was a continuous walk to a place called Sanu Chitre enjoying sweet ‘Ainshelus’ (wildberry) which were found all over the way. After taking a short break and light refreshments, the journey continued. With the rising sun pouring in more heat, the occasional natural springs were more than welcome. We reached Gaihri Kharka at about 1 PM to take a break under the shade of a tree. After refreshment comprising of cheese, biscuits and cucumber and wholesome rest, we set out for Chauthe village. The trail to Chauthe started with steep descent for an hour followed by lush green paddy farm. Sometimes the trail was so steep that we had to crawl down the slopes virtually. By the time we reached the paddy fields, we had already descended about three thousand feet from the starting point. The climate was now cool and breezy.
We made it to the Aungure primary school in Chauthe at around 3 PM. The school had four rooms, which were not in very good shape. We received a warm welcome from the school head master and other staffs. Stationeries were distributed to the students. The school headmaster gave information about how the school was formed and maintained and the problems they face in running the school followed by a short speech from Mr. Devendra on his vision and future plans for the school.
The lunch was cooked and served at headmaster’s house. It was served in traditional Nepali style. Everything of the lunch came right from the farm outside and carried 100% freshness, purity and aroma of organic. Everyone enjoyed the meal to the fullest.
After the delicious meal, we wanted to rest and take a nap but it was already getting close to 4:30 and the sky was dark. It could rain anytime. After thanking the local folks, we set out for the final destination which was somewhat reverse to the path traveled so far; a walk through paddy fields followed by a steep vertical ascent. We could have afforded to be a bit lazy but there was something that was in the back of everyone’s mind which helped us maintain the pace. We were informed by the villagers that a tiger has killed two cows two days back in the forest that we were going to cross (indeed a pacemaker).
The ascent from Chauthe to DamahDhunga was the toughest. The headmaster and his brother accompanied us to the top. We were informed that it was a 30 min uphill climb but as usual, it took us almost an hour and a half to make it to reach the van. It drizzled during the last half an hour that washed off all day’s tiring. Exhausted yet delighted we headed back home.
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Comments
Besides fun and adventure, i got a pinch of reality.
By: Bishwa | June 6, 2007 10:57 PM
Bishwa i am pleased for you, that you perceuved something. Travel teaches us about many things that we do not know yet. Is not it?
let's travel together and get to know.
By: Vish | June 6, 2007 11:57 PM
Prabhakar dai, so it IS possible to manage time to write an article rahecha hai.. :) Great going!!
Cheers..
By: Supriya | June 7, 2007 06:36 AM
Vishnu dai, traveling with folks here at d2 is always fun, we can walk around whenever we can.
And cheers to prabhakar dai; thank god, we didn't meet any tigers :D
By: Bishwa | June 7, 2007 07:07 AM
Agreed Supriya!! Seems like I am the person to learn most from this hiking :-)
By: Prabhakar | June 7, 2007 07:26 AM
The school needed everything that a school should have. It was kind of catch 22. On one hand you feel little proud, or should I say satisfied, that you are giving away at least some stationaries but then , like i said, they needed much much more! And to make the matters worse, you get a treated like a Royalty! Damn!!!
By: Hitesh | June 7, 2007 09:11 AM
With generosity of company we paid some reasonable price to the host for the feat to save our ....!
Perhaps that was not too bad. Cheers!
By: Vish | June 9, 2007 08:26 PM
Nice Article !!!
By: Kundan | June 12, 2007 03:57 AM