Karate Village! Exploring the last village of Kharal Valley. A short Hike.

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pranavinaction2.7 K11 days agoHive.Blog3 min read

Kinda Strange,
It felt, when I got to know that this village was know as Karate,
The Kun Fu Karate, In The Himalayas.

Julley Everyone,
Here we were,
Wondering on the lasts of the road. Newly constructed.
It was around 2 PM in the afternoon, the sun was shining right ahead us. A perfect time for a short hike thats what we decided.

Parked our car over here! And beyond this all that we could see was a trail to the top of the mountain peak.

Cutting done through the mountain in order to construct the road.

This was the Karate Village. Then last village of Kharal Valley of Kullu. There were nearly 2-4 houses at this place. It was really a difficult life over here living at such a high altitude place.

I asked the locals that why is it still so that they are living such a difficult life as in the next few days of winters this whole place would be covered under a thick blanket of snow which would last for the next few months. Even fetching the water ( Drinking water) is really a task at such place. Everything goes frozen. But the locals replied that its their roots and they hand lived to live this life.

This place was actually famous as there was a small trail to the Bijli Mahadev Temple which was at the top and Middle of Kullu Valley. Between the two valleys. The Kullu Valley and the Parvati Valley on the left.

The trail through the Deo Dar Forest.

It was really very peaceful a must visit place whenever visiting Kullu and Manali. Though most of the people when they visit Bijli Mahadev Temple they just hike the trail up ignoring the places that come between the passage. This time what made me wonder was to capture the trail from the beginning and even wonder and think about the life of the people who used to live here.

The shops seemed like that of before 20-30 years in time and even the products were of that of the ones which used to me the famous ones such as lays chips etc. These were the last shops to and beyond this there was no shop till the top except the one at the middle of the forest.

There even were the local apples for sale. One of the basket contained red apples and the other contained the green ones( Golden Variety). That was something that took my eyes onto the shop.