TravelIndia.com - Traveling With Us

Travel to India | Travel in India | India Travel Guide | Information on Travel in India | Your Bookmark on Travel in India - TravelIndia.com

Traveling With Us - Trek to Jakhol

Click here to plan a similar trip | Read more about Tons Valley

With summer just round the corner, it is time to escape to the cool heights of the Himalayas. While the call of the familiar resorts beckons there are many valleys here where a fascinating people live almost undiscovered, isolated. Jakhol - a tiny village in the upper Tons valley is set amidst a canopy of thick deodar forests. We have been camping and trekking in the Jakhol valley for the last ten years. This year, we share the secret with you - come and join us to discover the pleasures of getting away from it all...

One such community that traces its lineage to the warring Pandava and Kaurava brothers of the epic Mahabharata, makes its home in the western mountains of the Garhwal Himalayas. Almost two thousand years

past the events mentioned in this great epic, these villagers still abide by the customs and rituals as narrated in the Mahabharata. Inhabiting the hilly tracts of the river Yamuna and its tributary, the Tons, the people worship the two feuding clans. This, the Tons valley was our destination a few years ago on a discovery journey to the medieval heartlands of the UP Himalayas.

Click here to plan a similar trip | Read more about Tons Valley