We started our journey from Jaladhar in a bus 9.30 pm and reached Katra at 4:30 am in the morning. We got a shock to see a 2 km line of people standing to get the pass from the Shrine board and start their journey. We were told that first we will have to take a waiting ticket and the next day a confirm ticket will be issued to us to start out climb.
Then a miracle happened, we had member in our group who made few calls and in a matter of 4 hours we had 6 VIP passes. So finally we started our climb at 11:30am with the sun blazing on our head
At 5:30pm we reached the Temple and because we had VIP passes we got direct entry to the temple. After that we climbed another 2km to reach Bharavnath Mandir. At 5200 feets you can’t even see the foot of the mountain.
Till now thing where smooth, on the way back we took a route known as Hatti Matha. We soon realized that it had a difficult angle to walk down. This took a loot of stress on the body and we came down at 5:30am.
This experience was amazing and any one visiting should go in off-season and have VIP passes
