Ultimate Serenity in Chindi Village And Discovery of Prehistoric Wheat Grain Weighing 150 Grams in Karsog Valley | Himachal

Hotel Mamleshwar Chindi Himachal

Road to shikari devi by saptarishi

"What time, sir, you want breakfast?"
The waiter asked while departing.
"At nine",
I replied with a questioning look. The night creature being a dog was not acceptable by me.
It was a beautiful morning. The breeze had a typical jungle fragrance of leaves and wood. it was a fascinating sight Outside on the terraced garden, to my right I could see a winding road to the village of Chindi. In the front, beyond reception, were rising mountains and below a glimpse of Karsog valley.
I turned towards sudden crackling sound below to see my grandson Ronnie on a oscillating three seater swing enjoying a sandwitch.
The curiosity of what happened to that "DOG " last night, took me alone for a long walk behind the Hotel up "Lover's Hill".
What a lovely place. Serene and quiet and... wow! Another valley on the east side! I moved north towards village.
Chindi was a small place, few shops, Chindi temple and a tea stall. 

Mahunag Temple

Mahunag Temple of Karna

Kamal our driver was ready and we started on a spiritual journey to the temple of "Karna"(from the epic MAHABHARATA), a rare Diety in India, a worshiping place at the height of approximately 1830 meters ASL and 24 kms from Chindi off NH21.
It was a drive through twisting road, pine forests and rolling hills. After passing a school, we reached the village and then a steep climb on a broken road to Mahunag.

While walking to temple I saw around and my jaw dropped!
Splendid! An amazing scene.
A brilliant view of Karsog Valley on one side and beyond,a snow capped mountains of Great Himalayan Range. The priest chanted a small prayer for us and told us the story of the temple which was supposed to be very ancient, may be 3200 years old!
We were back in the hotel by 2.30 pm and attacked our lunch of Himachali Kadi( gram flour vegetable dumplings in hot and spicy butter milk curry) with fried Brinjal(Aubergines) and rice tempered with cumin seeds and butter. Great!
The result?
Siesta!

Mamleshwar Temple

Our next stop was the small sub district H.Q. town of Karsog in Karsog Valley to visit legendary temple of Mamleshwar. A small beautiful temple. The outer structure was done lately but the diety of Lord Shiva with his family was a unique one as there were no temples in India depicting the entire family of Lord Shiva. It had a beat-drum which was supposed to be played by Bhima (Mahabharata) and...

Prehistoric Wheat Grain Weighing 150 grams!

Stunning!

This is something which you are not going to see any where else in the world. We were lucky to see this, because its the only one grain of wheat whose weight is NEAR ABOUT 150 GRAM ! Unbelievable well believe it. Because its true. This  Grain came in to eye during Excavation work in Temple Premises...source 

The temple was situated in a bowl shaped green valley at the height of 900 ft ASL surrounded by green hills. A wonderful sight.
There was another small temple behind Mamleshwar Temple amidst green fields. It was the most picturesque countryside!
Before dark we were back at our charming Hotel. Sat on the swing and enjoyed hot ginger tea with vegetable cutlets!
A very very enjoyable day, indeed.

How to go:

A 4 hours drive from SHIMLA through scenic valley to Chindi and Karsog via Tattapani (Hot springs)
SHIMLA, the capital of Himachal has an airport and is well conected.
By train to KALKA or CHANDIGARH and then by road to SHIMLA-KARSOG


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