Govind Ghat Tourism and Travel Guide

You can stay at Gurudwara Sri Gobind Ghat or book a hotel room, it's your choice. The room will cost more then 800 INR. Also, there will be no mobile network coverage here. The only thing which is available for communication is BSNL landline.

23 June 2019- Haridwar to Joshimath : GMOU Ltd bus (₹400/-); starts 2.30am; travel time 13 hours- Joshimath to Govindghat : Bolero (₹50/-); travel time 40 minutes- Stay at Govindghat Gurudwara

Next day we started our return journey towards Govindghat, and around 3 pm we reached there, checked in into our hotel and relaxed for the day with lots of discussions of our memorable journey which we can never forget.!

Next day, early morning our tempo traveler had arrived and we started our day long road trip towards Govindghat, and we hoped we could reach Govindghat at around 5 pm, but when we crossed Rishikesh we got stuck as small landslides happened on the way. So for this case we reached Govindhghat at around 10 pm and I remembered that the last 3 hours journey was the most thrilling road journey ever! So we checked in into a hotel at Govindghat and took a good night sleep as we had to start our trek tomorrow morning.

हमने उसी दिन 270 किमी. की दूरी तय की और पहुँच गए गोविंदघाट। नूतन ने बताया, यहाँ से हेमकुंड साहिब दूर नहीं है, जब यहाँ तक आ ही गये हैं तो चल ही लेते हैं। अब वो डाल-डाल और मैं पात-पात था। जहाँ वो कहता, मैं चल देता। हमने घंघरिया अपनी बाइक रखी और हेमकुंड साहिब के ट्रेक के लिए चलने लगे। हमने 14 किमी. का ट्रेक 5-6 घंटों में पूरा किया। बीच में हम थोड़ा आराम करते और फिर आगे बढ़ने लगते। नूतन को देखकर लग ही नहीं रहा था कि वो पहली बार ट्रेक कर रहा है, उसके सामने मैं नौसिखये की तरह था। हेमकुंड साहिब का ट्रेक हमारे लिए काफी मुश्किल था, बर्फ और ठंडी हवओं के बीच हम हेमकुंड साहिब पहुँचे। हेमकुंड साहिब का ट्रेक खतरनाक है लेकिन खूबसूरत भी बहुत है। रास्ते में बहुत सारे बुग्याल और बर्फ से ढंके पहाड़ देखते ही बनते हैं।

निकल पड़े एक खूबसूरत सफर परतब मैंने नूतन से पूछा कहाँ जाना चाहिए? उसने कहा, आप तीर्थयात्रा तो करने आए नही हो तो आपको उत्तराखंड के छोर तक जाना चाहिए। मैंने उससे यूँ ही पूछ लिया, तुम चलोगे मेरे साथ, मुझे यहाँ के बारे में ज्यादा अंदाज़ा नहीं है। कुछ देर सोचने के बाद वो तैयार हो गया और मैं उसकी पैकिंग करवाने लगा। मैं खुश था कि अब मुझे अकेले ये सफर नहीं करना पड़ेगा। उससे भी बड़ी बात मेरे पास एक स्थानीय फ्रेंड था, जिसके साथ प्रॉब्लम आराम से हल हो जाती। अगले दिन सुबह-सुबह मैं एक नए साथी के साथ एक नए सफर पर निकल पड़ा। इस शख्स से मैं कुछ घंटों पहले मिला था लेकिन एक रात ने हमारी बाॅन्डिंग काफी अच्छी कर दी थी। अब मैं एक अच्छे सफर पर एक अच्छे दोस्त के साथ जा रहा था, वो मेरा दोस्त भी और इस सफर का गाइड भी।

Following the trail, reached Ghangaria in 4 hours after starting the trek from Pulna. It's a decent trek. Neither hard nor easy. Took a bed in Dormitory (Govind-Dham Gurudwara). A lot of other pilgrims also made a stop-over at the same place. If you wish to stay in a hotel, you can get a room in INR 500 per night as well. Gurudwara Gobind Dham is located at the height of 3,048 meters. The Langar or free community kitchen is a sign of the Sikh faith. Don't miss to have langar at Gurudwara Gobind Dham.

Day 6: Its almost evening 4:00 PM and I had rode back to Joshimath from the Auli top, Its time to head towards Mana village which is almost 52 kms from Joshimath. But nature had some other plans for me. Almost after riding some 22 kms I was stopped by the police officials after covering some 2 kms from Govindghat as there was heavy land slide and it was constantly drizzling. It was almost 5 PM and there was no chance for road to get clearance. So I had to make an unplanned stay at highway hotel at Govind Ghat. But having said so.. it was indeed worth a stay. As its rightly said "Unplanned experiences are one of most memorable experiences"

Day 5: Ghagharia - GovindghatTrek down from Ghangharia to Govindghat. It is an easy day, so you can enjoy the nature and the entire feel of this place.

My raincoat died and I had to purchase a new one and I also learned to keep my permanent raincoat or poncho with me. People who were going up were having more trouble. The water was running all over the trek. Now, I also felt water reaching inside of the shoes. I could feel the wet socks now. At around 4 PM, the rain stopped for a while and I was almost 9 kilometers away from Gobindghat. And it took me further two hours to reach Phulna. And here I again met the three guys who paid for my entry in VOF. From Phulna, we all took taxi to reach Gobindghat which took almost 20-25 minutes to reach Gobindghat. And in next fifteen minutes we booked a room in a hotel which cost us only 600 INR for the room and the room was big enough to accommodate all of us at once. So by 7 PM we were in our room and the view from the room was lovely. We refreshed ourselves and went for the dinner in a restaurant and straightaway went to sleep. It didn't took much time to sleep because we were all tired. But in the end I would say, this all tiredness was amazingly worth it. We've been to an amazing journey and encountered such beauty and nature that I can have goosebumps any day remembering it. It was so much lovely. And yes, I definitely slept like a baby.