Travel diaries: At Dol Ashram, experience peace and silence

Uttarakhand is a place with serene beauty of mountains, waterfalls, grasslands, lakes, holy pilgrimage and valley of flowers.

Dol ashram was established by Kalyan Das Ji during his Mansarovar Journey. During the journey, Babaji met Maa Bhagwati and got motivated to start the ashram in the Himalayas. In 1990’s Kalyan Das Ji established the Kalyanika Himalaya Dev Sthanam ashram between a thick forest near Almora.

If I had ever imagined what heaven looked like in my childhood, the view from here came the closest. The Ashram is in the middle of the forest with not a single human being in sight surrounded by towering oak and rhododendron trees, clouds passing through us, only the sound of birds to keep us company, and an endless green path laden with plum trees and colorful flowers.

This place is good for the bird watcher. One can see many Himalayan species in this Dol Ashram.This place is meant to be explored and taken care of by tourists like it is their own home. Its narrow lanes should not have honking vehicles or empty packets of chips and beer

A picture does speak a thousand words but the godliness of this place can neither be explained through photos nor words. bottles.

The mountains which one will see on the way will do better than lifting the weight of endless houses, resorts, and mobile towers. It does not need a Cafe Coffee Day or a Pizza Hut. And above all, it does not deserve to die a slow death that popular hill stations such as Manali, Nainital, and Shimla are experiencing.

For lunch, we chose to have local Kumaoni food at a Dhaba and we ate a simple potato curry, kumauni raita,onion pakoda and bhang (Cannabis) chutney.

You can literally hear a “whoosh” of the winds along with endless chirping of birds. After what felt like hours of peace and silence, we left the Ashram before sunset as the Ashram is among the early to bed and early to rise.

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