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Who Says There are No Flowers in the Valley of Flowers?

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A sign at the Entrance to the Valley of Flowers (VoF) says it all The passionate forest guard at the gate told me that he had been scolded by a senior officer that the VoF had no flowers, and that he, the forest guard, should put up a sign warning everyone so.   The experience I had was entirely different, I saw a myriad flowers blooming and a tranquil Valley.  And I thought to myself that:  they are really blind those who  will   not see.  These flowers were very different to to those I had seen on my earlier trip in August 2015, view my photographs of the earlier trip at the link here  and my blog of that trip  over here Flowing water everywhere A kilometer after buying a ticket at the forest check post, I cross the steel bridge across the Pushpawati River and begin the ascent into the VoF. The ticket is valid for three days of which I will visit on two.  The mountainsides are striated with waterfalls fed by t he melting snow, whi...

Glimpses of Dharamkot - a photo blog

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Blue Whistling Thrush ...... .....greeting a new  day An iced caterpillar a juvenile flycatcher contemplates the end of the day Trapped! A hungry female beetle trapped in the slime of a slug Every cloud has a golden lining a Grey Bushchat female peeks at us coyly...... .....now she gets bolder a male Grey Bushchat greets the dawn..... .....looking for an early worm Reaching out to the sky ....even slugs make out a Streaked Laughing Thrush flirts among the rocks A golden end to another day