Its the mid summer season, like everyday get tired of teaching to the students. Both class 8 and class 10 student are very sincere and obedient but class 9 students are little arrogant. Yeah today, lesson of Light take lot of time to explain topic only. It's the year 2017, i used to teach science in Bal jagaran bidya mandir boarding school of sombare,morang. after school i reach to room and lay on the bed. I remember my home and that story My papa used to tell to us. That's the time when i'm 10 years old, my big brother yam was 12 years and little brother saran was 8 years. We used to help papa to make the package in the shop. And papa used to tell the story. The story i remember and it give me the energy. The story of the true, kind and very humble king Sodungen Lepmuhang and the Miklajung mountain. On the bed today I thought that' summer vacation is also near,i must make vacation really especial'. My plan goes on like first meet with family and have good variety of family dinner. My mom always have special items for me, when i reach home. Its the long time not meet with the brothers and friends also. I remember brother Binay( from Dumseey). He show interest for trekking to miklajung and had told me some more story about that Holy places. But now a day he may be very busy in his cyber center. Its ok,let's meet him onetime, i think so. It's the time of summer vacation. I have my salary from principle N.B sir, and take farewell from the Bhawani sir too. 'Sir today's also hurry to Home' Bhawani Sir crack a joke. I just smile, really i was in hurry. I take salary, take leave with house owner and within few hour i drop to my home. Like everyday,i get warm welcome from my mama with beautiful smile in her face
. She looks very beautiful while she smile. And share Dinner with all. My nephew was quite grown up and came near to me, i have something with me that he ordered me from phone. Oh that was a football. Next morning, after sharing about trekking with brother yam,i went to Meet Binay in his Cyber Centre. We have quality time,and share the plan of trekking. He was surprisingly excited. After long and stressful work he was also thinking to have some adventure.We planned every thing,planned to have minimum budgeting and trekking is the cheapest adventure but very hygienic, and true feelings of nature very closely. It may be stressful but very unforgettable moment. We search the google map on cyber, we take the satellite picture but surprisingly its not located on the google map. And in satellite picture there is only the forest area. I say ' what should be done'? Binay said that , i know one kopa who had reach village near to Miklajung mountain, he will guide us to the top. That's seems to be the light of hope. we decided to meet with kopa and also small team of friends for our trekking. That all works well and everything goes nicely, all friend's are willingly ready for trekking.One days before the trekking , at evening i meet with binay. All days passed with household work. And Binay brother also close his cyber cafe at 7:pm. As planned earlier, i took motorbike and reach to his centre. Exactly its the time which we planned to buy the Bell and trishul for the holy place Miklajung. Me with my brother represented the beldangi camp and binay represented dumseey village. we do shopping from the shrestha shop in Damak chowk. Its exactly 8.00 pm while we return home. We have the dinner in my home and binay take leave to his home with promise to meet very early morning 4:00 am. That will be the starting of our journey. Me and brother yam went to bed earlier since we need to wake up next morning soon. It difficult to get asleep soon. Many thing play in mind, tomorrow trekking is the adventurous one that i have mind make up from earlier days. As papa used to tell story, i used to think how is that place. A Great king sodugen lepmuhang land stay their, there may be some clue. It was told that there is holy chullo(secret holy place of god sumnima and paruhang). If there is any clue than it may revealed many things. Alas its already 10:00 pm. I decided to have sleeep.
Next morning i heard than sound of alarm from brother Yam mobile. He wake up and start to do packing. He called me too, i wake up with long shallow breath. oh its about to 3:30 am. I to start to pack by Bag. Yam went to inform Kopa( trekking Guide) and Brother Omraj gurung. Three of them returned and we take blessing from mama and papa. They bless us with safe and successful journey. We walk for Binay house. It tale 15 min to reach his home. Yam called Binay from out of door, door open and we are Amazed by the this inside home. Auntie had already prepared food for all of us. She look very happy and bright. After a long time we friend have get together. Binay give water to friends, she told to binay. It exactly 4:00 am, we all wash our hand. Omraj looks very excited. Those food are of variety. Brother yam appreciated the curry and ask for some more. By looking it we also added curry, it really delicious. We talk with auntie and happiness and sorrow, we laugh ,joke and finish our meal. Now u must have to do hurry son, auntie said, it may get dark before reaching to destiny. Carry light, tourch and also khukuri's for safety. Khukuri is the traditional weapon of Gorkhali people. Binay manage it and put it in bag. I remember my khukuri too in my bag. But it hardly cut some bamboo, it very small but than also for feeling of safety i had put it in my bag. Than its time to take farewell with auntie. we start our journey, its 4:30 am and still it's dark.
As we start our trekking in morning ,Dear friend(yadu nath baral, now in Oslo,Norway) i still remember your last year visit.You promise me during your next visit to Nepal after 5 years, we will have trekking to Annapurna trekking site.And this is only the first experience of trekking. As we start our journey we reach to the Mawa river. it very near to Dumsey village. YOU have reach their My dear friend, but this is my first time to be in Mawa river. After crossing Mawa we reach to Madhumalaa Bazzar. Once this Area was Rule by king Madhukar so its name remains as Madhumalaa. We walked for an hour, and turns toward our home. We saw golden light of sun shining from sky and giving farewell for our safe journey. We cross the small rivulets and reach to the hills. It goes straight up , and we have to walk for half an hour straight to the top.During our walk we take rest several time and drink water in one of the villagers house. He was also a chamling rai settled their from khotang. from his information we came to know that we have entered to the miklajung municipalities, omraj looks excited. He was hurry to reach their in mountain. But get suppressed when that person told it takes nearly 8 hours to reach to mountain for us when we are young. They are from that age , it take 8 hours for them , then surely we will take 10 hrs minimum to reach. My concern goes to the torch light. Oh it fine at least i had carried torch from home while coming to binays home early morning. we again start to walk after taking rest.
The day is bright, sun over us , it touches our skin nourished by the sweats on our body. We fills like slowly our heart beat i s increasing. After croosing the village we reach to end of the village and we have to climb on the mountain. we saw lot of beans growing on the surface of the mountain. villagers were really hard working, they grow beans on such difficult places. Beans are the main income source of that village. They were exported to the damak with good price.As we climb up through the narrow path, we saw some tea plants by the side of our path. Some of villagers had tried to grow tea plats but due to lack of proper care and the quality of soil it gets damage. But what i conclude is that people are really hard working. we climb up and up. And the mountain forest is getting dense and dense. On the side of path i saw a lots of huge creepers . I asked to our guide kopa about that and came to know that its a (Pangra). Pangra is that nepali words, in old age people use it as a soap of bathing, giant Hornbill birds eat it as their food items but now a day its used in the Religious ceremony. It's demand is still in a large amount in the market. we reach to the top of the mountain. All the far away from the miklajung village. we look back , their no sign of our home and we turns towards the destiny, KOpa told that their is still four mountains to cross, but from now on the path their will be lot of leeches, so we must have to be careful. Leeches are very creepy, when it enter in our shoes and sucks the blood we don't know.
Dear friend Yadu......
As we goes up and up, the jungle forest are covered the dense fog and tree leaves are moisturized by the drops of droplets from fog. The jungle are green and air is fresh. we had traveled many hours crossing numbers of rivers, rivulets and up-down throughout the path. As i'm walking i feel something very cold on the feet. Its feeling some thing uneasy. I stopped their and look down,their i saw the bleeding from my legs. A leech was sticking on the skin of my legs. I catch it and pull it out, but it's sticking very strongly,it stretch like rubber and detached out. I through it far away. my friends also stood to check their legs and shoes.It's the half ways to our destiny said kopa. Some times in this forest, appear deers, it looks very beautiful. Our eyes start to search deer, we walk with expectation may we see deer on the way to Miklajung. while we reach to a miklajung river we saw a colorful muds. Those muds are rich in various minerals. We just feels that if people are aware about this minerals than it can be the source of income. But it will also disturbed the natural beauty of this places. We cross the miklajung river through the hanging bridge. The day is going dark and dark. Still our destiny is not reached. On the foot of the Miklajung Mountain their may be some houses,if we walked fast we can reach their in two hours and have the shelter their in night, if not then we have stay night in the forest. We all are concerned not by the animals but by the leeches,very creepy, if we sleep in jungle it will sticks all over our body. We all have common feelings we forget our pain, tiredness and starts to walk very fast as much as possible to reach the little village between the jungle. Its almost dark, we reach the village, their is only five house. Two house are of shrestha brother and two Rai's. Kopa talk to shrestha jettha(elders) about our trekking and want to stay one night.He was very friendly. He welcome all of us and tell us that it your home, you can prepare what you like for dinner. we see in vegetable gardens,their we see lots of chow chow( eskus).Wow it's my favorite said binay. We pick some of them and the green leafy vegetable.We have radish for pickles.Some potato. We all works together , some goes to kitchen me for cleaning dishes, yam brother and omraj for cutting vegetable. And Grandfather(kopa) enjoy talking with the house owner. within an hour all is ready. It 8:00 pm evening, we start our dinner. We all sat together and have share the story of our fun, struggles, and all. We talks with shrestha jetha. He was living their with this one little daughter of 9 years Samina. We talk with Samina and asked about mother. we came to know that her mother passed away while she was very young. Our face get faded and dark. She was playing whole days with father,helping to collect grass for goat and cow in cow shed. 
We talk about the income source of the village. We came to know that cardamom farming and the vegetables is the income source. Beside this cow milk and Goat also help to add the income. He share his plan to add 15 to 20 of cows and supply milk to the Madhumalla Bazzar and damak. Its really a big plan. The place is suitable, there is plenty of grass and leaves. The the road track is also very near for supply of products. We talk about this places, and tomorrow plan to climb the MiklaJung Mountain. He told us that the Mountain was very divine, villagers during no rain for long time, they pray on the foot mountain for rain. Then the rainfall start's. But beside the mountain their use to be tiger. In last year it attacks our cattle. Our one goat is hunted by tiger. That night it roar all over our village. We shut our door locked and hide inside the house. It freezes us all, we looks each our eyes. Then omraj asked,is the tiger still here. Shrestha told that, after that it didn't appears in village,but sometime's it roaring is heard across the forest. It's too late evening, we all discuss about it. We all take decision that we Take bath tomorrow morning and pray to god for our protection and start our journey. We reach this far we should returned empty and defeated. Next morning we take bath from the water supplied by pipe. Water is very cold and air too. It' s jerking cold, we all are shaking with coldness. We take bath , it's feeling refresh and all tiredness and laziness are blown away by the coldness of water.
TO BE CONTINUE........
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