Kailash Manasarovar Yatra -2012 - 24

Rakshas Tal

The island in Rakshas Tal

(  According to Legend, Ravan the Asura  King of SriLanka  offered   penance to appease  Lord Shiva, sitting in this island)  

 The beautiful view of Sun's rays illuminating the

 Rakshas Tal

 

Anil -Uma Goyal on the shores of Ravan Kund

The aqua marine Rakshas Tal

Another view of Rakshas Tal

Close up view of some of the peaks of Gurla Mandhata Ranges

A small stone hill and the mighty mountain

The popular belief is  that by praying and piling up stones and making  some structure out of that on the shores  of Holy Manasarovar or Rakshas Tal  brings good luck, and the prayer is answered. So usually devotees pile up stone  in some different fashions. We can see lot of small structures dotted  on the shores of both these lakes.  Here the structure is  rather big resembling a hill.  May be many yatri's would have worked together build  such a  big structure, because most of the time the yatri's are always on the run , they don't stop for sometime and enjoy the full beauty.

Kailash Kaushik couple 

Close Up view of a peak

Both Manasarovar and Rakshas Tal are saddled between Holy Kailash ranges on one side and Gurla Mandhata ranges on the otherside."A thing of beauty is a joy for ever", the beauty of the  snow on the peaks of Gurla Mandhata ranges were captured by Sundar. 

Kailash Manasarovar Yatra -2012 - 23

Parikrama of Holy Manasarovar

The parikrama route  

Glittering Manas

Gurla Mandatha peaks 

Golden ducklings in Manasarovar

Sea gulls in Manas

River crossing on the route

 A Gompa on the shores of Manasarovar

 Multi-hued waters of Manas

Small stones are piled up as a prayer on the 

shores of Manasarovar and Rakshas Tal

One shore of Manas

Eti,  Ajay Kaushik, Suthar  Mookerji, Swathi

Quhu  Gompa

What a beauty

 Blue sky, white snow,black mountain, turquoise Manasarovar, different coloured birds and brown soil the creator has painted this scene with all His colors.

Communicaton lines upto Manasarovar

Another view of Manasarovar Lake

Part of the parikrama route is now converted to tar road

Frightened yaks

After the wonderful first darshan of the Lord at Hore we started the parikrama of Holy Manasarovar.  This day we traveled from Hore to Chiu  completing one half of the Manasarovar parkarama. When we left the sun was high on the sky and the waves of the Manasarovar shone like Diamond.  As we proceeded  we saw lot of birds in the lake including Golden Geese. Midway we reached  Rakshas Tal  the twin of Manasarovar , both the lakes area situated between Himalayan Ranges and Gurla Mandatha  ranges. The waters of both these lakes  provide a contrast. 

Later we  proceeded  between Gurla Mandata and the shores of Manasarovar and Sundar took close shots of the peaks of Gurla Mandatha ranges.  We also crossed the Quhu Gompa in which  we stayed two days during the earlier yatra. Thus enjoying the beauty of the Manasarovar we reached Chiu Gompa where we are going to stay for the next two days on full moon days. When we reached Chiu the sun was setting and the lake shone like a golden ball in that and the ambiance was really marvelous. The parikrama route remains almost the old dirt mud road , a part of the route from Taklakot to Zaidi is now a tar road.