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Bhoon : The secret cave.

Uttrakhand is a land of gods as well as mysteries. There are various mystical places in uttrakhand, about what i will be telling in upcoming blogs.  Todays topic is bhoon, a secret cave in Dharkot, a village located in pratap nagar tehsil of tehri district of uttarakhand. 

Pratap nagar is named before king pratap singh, who used to come to stay here in summers.  As pratap nagar is located in high altitude the king used to shift from Old tehri  which was located in valley. High mountains have low temprature that valleys, that's the reason he used to shift in summers. 

Now, bhoon is actually located in forest area of dharkot. It is actually a cavity in the mountain, which the local people used to believe, is a short cut to rishikesh. 


The story is that once, a goat of one of the residents of dharkot  accidentally slipped to bhoon. After one month of the incident, delhi residing resident of dharkot reached dharkot, after he heard about the incident, he told that he saw the goat with same features in rishikesh whose one leg was broken, on the bank of river with one lamb. From that day onwards people in dharkot started to believe that the bhoon is shortcut  to rishikesh. 

But there were some people who didn't believe in such things, but there was no mean to prove the reality  because of lack of equipments, as the time passed,  the tools became available, & one of the residents who didnt believe  that it is the shortcut to rishikesh  decided to go inside the bhoon. 



Mr. Yoginder negi, collected all the necessary  supplies, went to bhoon all alone discovered  that bhoon is really very deep, but not that much to reach rishikesh, there were skeletons of many animals like deer, wild buffalos etc. He tried to go through  smaller holes but was unable to go inside. 
He concluded that, if something will fall from such height, will never will able to walk again atleast, the smaller holes in bhoon were too small for atleast a goat to pass through & there is no such shortcut to rishikesh  from bhoon. 

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