Mt. Kailash Manasa Sarovar @ Fleeting Moments Photography

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01

Mt. Kailash Manasa Sarovar Yatra

Mt. Kailash Posted by GT / 6 comments

Way back in 2002, when we were staying in a rented house in Gurgaon, our landlord had a visitor and that lady, who was just back from her Mt. Kailash Parikrama, wanted some help in transferring images from her digital camera to her laptop. Till that moment I had not even heard of Mt. Kailash […]

Day 1: Kathmandu to Tato Pani

Distance Traveled: 120 Kms Travel Time: Almost 5 hours. Left Kathmandu at 9 AM and reached Tato Pani around 2 PM The big day had finally arrived. Afte[...]

Day 2: Tato Pani to Nyalam

Distance Covered: About 50 Kms Travel Time: 2 hours Waiting for Chinese Immigration: 5 – 6 hours … Immigration formalities: 30 mts. Crazy [...]

Day 3: Nyalum to Saga

Distance Traveled: About 250 Kms Time Traveled: About 7 hours + an hour for lunch along the way. Left Nyalam by 9:30 AM and reached Saga by 5 PM. Here[...]

Day 4: Saga to Mt. Kailash

Distance Traveled : Almost 600 kms Time Traveled : About 8 hours. We left Saga around 8 AM and reached the entrance to Mt. Kailash and Manasa Sarovar [...]

Day 5: Chui Gompa to Darchen

Distance Traveled: About 25 Kms Did not have too much of travel scheduled for this day as pooja on the banks of Manasa Sarovar were planned. We were e[...]

Day 6: Darchen to Drirapuk

Mt. Kailash parikrama means one perambulation around the Mt. Kailash peak by walk. The total distance of this parikrama is about 52 kilometers and is [...]

Day 7 : Drirapuk to Darchen

Mt. Kailash playing hide and seek in the cover image above. Mount Kailash is a peak in the Kailas Range (Gangdise Mountains), which in turn are part o[...]

Day 8: Darchen to Saga

Distance Traveled: About 600 kms Travel Time: About 9 hours. Left Darchen at 10 AM and reached Saga by 7 PM This was the first day of our travel bac[...]

Day 9 : Saga to Nyalum

Distance Traveled: About 250 Kms Time Traveled: About 5 hours. Left Saga around 9:30 AM and reached Nyalam by 3 PM. On our way to Mt. Kailash, our bus[...]

Day 10: Nyalam to Kathmandu

Distance Traveled: About 160 Kms Time Taken: Almost 10 hrs. More than it being the last day of our journey, we wanted to get out of the dirty hotel wh[...]