We arrived at Khara Pathar at 4 PM. We had stopped a couple of instances for lunch and purchasing en route and that led to the delay. One other issue was intermittent rain and fog which slowed us down.

As soon as we reached Khara Pathar we discovered the market on the trisection bustling with native exercise. We parked the automobile & began shopping for a couple of issues that we had missed en route, an important being water for 2 days.

We additionally obtained the thought of Chanshal being an extended drive from the native shopkeepers and drivers, and we determined to desert Chanshal as the ultimate vacation spot and camp at Khara Pathar itself.

Somebody additionally recommended that we camp on the Giri Ganga Temple round 7 km from the market. So, we determined to pay our respects on the temple and scout the tenting location among the many deodar forest.

This space is legendary for its offbeat trek.

The Giri Ganga trek – 2500m is a 7 km straightforward to reasonable trek within the Pabbar valley that lies in Himachal’s southeast nook. It is among the most serene & excellent hideouts for many who want to ditch the mundane.

It took us round half-hour to get to the temple by the winding, slender highway being repaired at a few places. This highway was extremely slender and just one automobile might cross at a time.

As soon as we went to the pristine temple of Maa Giri Ganga, we couldn’t discover a place appropriate to pitch the tents, so we retreated to Khara Pathar after spending round half an hour at Maa Giri Ganga temple.

What’s the story of the River Giri Ganga?

The story of the Giri Ganga River is a couple of saint who by chance spilt a pot of holy water from Haridwar whereas travelling by the dense forests of the Nagan Valley in Himachal Pradesh:

The spill of Ganga Jal

A sage and his sadhus have been travelling by the forests carrying Ganga Jal of their vessels to create a spot in Himachal with the identical power as Kashi.

They stopped to relaxation on the Kuppar Bugyal meadow on prime of a peak, the place the Ganga Jal spilt on the bottom.

The identify Giri Ganga

The sage and his companions instantly exclaimed “Giri Ganga”, which suggests “Ganga spilt” or “fell”. A stream of water fashioned on the spot, and the place was named after the stream.

The Maa Giri Ganga temple

A temple was constructed on the backside of Kuppar Mountain, and the place grew to become thought-about holy and stuffed with power.

The Giri Ganga temple is alleged to have been constructed within the thirteenth century, although there was no close by civilization on the time.

The Giri Ganga River is a tributary of the Yamuna River. It originates within the Himalayan Koti Khai Mountains close to the Giri Ganga Temple within the Jubbal Tehsil of Shimla district.

It then flows by the Sirmour district and joins the Yamuna River close to the Uttarakhand border.

A tree fossil, showing to be thousands and thousands of years previous, was present in Kharapathar in 2019. In keeping with the curator of the Himachal Pradesh State Museum, the fossil belongs to the Mesozoic geological period.