Day-8: Loharjung - Rishikesh

Day-8: June 19^th, Loharjung to Rishikesh We started the day cracking PJs and enjoying ourselves with gossips. All of us were in jovial mode. I called up home to inform my whereabouts after which I got good bashing from my mother for being on the trip without any connectivity for 4 to 5 days. We met our guide and made payments to him for the trek after which he informed us that he is going to lead another group to Roopkund two days latter and we conveyed our best wishes to him.

Later we started ourselves for Rishikesh( in a single jeep) after having a good breakfast. At Karnaprayag, we had to split ourselves into 9+2 and were looking for those 2 bakra guys who have to travel together. Some people argued that who ever joined the group last had to travel separately. Hari and Aswin were ruled out as they had already traveled on the way to Loharjung. I suggested that we should single out those 2 guys based on lottery system and we adopted it immediately. We gave our driver to pick those two guys names and everybody was in a tense mood as they don't want their names to come up. At last, Raju and Karthik were the destined people to be chosen by fate :-) as they were one of those guys who didn't agree to the lottery system initially. Later they informed us they enjoyed very much in the bus as they had the chance to sleep well.
 

On the way, we stopped at Devprayag to have a look again at the sangam of Alakananda and Bhagirathi(actually, we got down here to have some refreshments :-) ). By the time we reached Rishikesh, it was around 7.00 PM and it took some time to find a lodge as the guys who went to look out for them were in conflict with each other on the room features. We went to a nearby Gujarati restaurant and pampered ourselves with tasty food after a long time. Initially, Pavan refused to eat anything and only ordered lassi but latter joined us as he couldn't stop his temptations.

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