Overview

Our group consisted of 9 people from various locations in United States. We had expert guidance and travel arrangement from Mr. Babu Sherpa and Mrs. Manila Sherpa of Kailashtours- Kathmandu . Before embarking the main tour, we visited various attractions in Kathmandu including Pashupatinath temple and Swayambhu, Buddha's temple.

On arrival in Kathmandu airport, we were warmly received by our hosts Mr. & Mrs. Babu Sherpa and we were taken to Hyatt Regency hotel. Final briefing/instructions for the trip were given to us on the evening of the 30th June,2009. On July 2nd 2009, we set out our journey to Manasa Sarovar and Kailas Parikrama.

Memorable events

Before planning our trip, our purpose to visit Mt.Kailash is in our beleif that going there with this body itself would be a great achievement. During our first day of parikrama to Mt.Kailash, I had also visualised that what ever written in our puranas, we could see. It was like a movie setting Those are not just mountains ,but symbolic representation of various deities. We saw on Ganesha parvath Ganesha engraved on the mountain. And the most importantly Kailash parvath surrounded between the brown mountains is very big black granite in color with Lord Shiva engraved on it. For clear sighting Shiva engraved on this mountain ,we had to use a binoculars - ( The Face, Eyes, Nose, Mouth and Feet). We saw Lord Shiva in a sitting posture. This is the North face of Mt.Kailash. When we sighted Lord Shiva , we felt that all our tiredness was gone and our dream to visit Mt.Kailash was fulfilled. We thought that we were blessed by Lord Shiva after we saw him in close and clear.

All through during the yatra we were helped a lot by Mrs.Manila Sherpa, our tour leader who accompanied us along with Nepalese cooks and Sherpas. My guide -Mr. Prashant Sherpa helped me a lot during parikrama. I would say that without Mr.Prashant Sherpa's help, it would not be possible for us to complete our parikrama. I pray to god to fulfill all his desires in his life. At start of trip in Nepal we purchased few Rudrakshas and took them to Manasasarovar. During the trip, we mispalced those and thought we lost them,but to our surprise after reaching Nepal, Mr. Prashant Sherpa was able to find those and returned back to us. Getting the Rudrakshas back we thought we were truly blessed by Kailashpathi.