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A TRIP TO MY VILLAGE

"UTTRAKHAND" The land of gods, is not only famous for it's beauty,  but also for adventures and it's wildlife. 

 last year, in summers me and my brother decided to go to our village without our parents for the first time. Our village 'Dharkot' is around 90 kms from the Tehri district in uttrakhand. Though it is very long, tiring on road journey of around 12 hours from delhi, we reached there fatigued. 

Next morning, me, my brother,  my two cousin sisters & chachaji headed towards uttarkashi to take my cousin's  diploma , that is again around 90kms from Dharkot.

On the way  to uttarkashi we saw a carcass of a cow in Dhanturi. Chachaji told me that the cow was hunted by a leopard. Soon we  reached uttarkashi had lunch around at 2pm took the diploma and headed back to Dharkot. We were also excited as chachaji had promised us that he would take us to Nachiketa tal in Chaurangi khal.chaurangi khal is a very beautifull place with dense forest and greenery,  Nachiketa tal is a pond in high altitude above the mountains. What makes it more beautiful is that it has fishes in the pond.

By the time we fogot about the carcass, we were enjoying our journey, I saw something jumping fom one side of the road to other.'Aah' I screamed, horrified. 'Leopard' that was.Unlike the normal colour it had wheatish skin with black spots & larger than the size we see in the zoo. Only me & chachaji observed that beauty for longer time as we were sitting in front. unfortunately my siblings got only one moment to see the leopard as it climbed down as the car stopped. One of my sister told me that she thought that i screamed because chachaji drove the car out of the road. The leopard was eating the carcass of the same cow that we saw in the morning. 

Around at 4pm we reached chaurangi khaal, trekked to nachiketa taal and clicked some awesome photos there. After some time we came down,drove to Dharkot and clicked some awesome pictures of moon in lambgaon on the way.we reached our home at around 9pm. I was so happy as it was my very first experience watching a leopard like this. Believe  me, it's  more pleasing than watching these beautiful creature in cage.
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