Dodital Lake is a beautiful lake situated about 50KM from Uttarkashi and is a source of Assi Ganga River which is one of the main tribuatry of Bhagirathi and Ganga.
Day 1
We (I and Meghraj) started from Uttarkashi around 12:30 PM, if need be you can hire a shared cabs going to Agoda which starts from Uttarkashi around 3 PM so plan your day accordingly.
Agoda is a beautiful village and the last point where we had a proper touch with civilization and govt. source of elecrticity was availiable.
It was raining by the time we reached 'Agoda' and quickly moved to our home-stay due to chill in the weather. 'Badi Aunty' helped us with some tasty food items during our stay and it was quite insipiring to see people doing hard work to make ends meet.
Coming back to weather, the forcast was glim for next few days and we went to sleep hoping for rains to stop.
Day 2
Inderdev had some other plans and it was pouring for the whole night, leading to another round of brain-storming session to decide if we shall or shall not head to Dodital. After consulting many experts (local guides), Meghraj finally took a call that we shall endeavour this 16Km trek after geting a packed lunch.
Unfortunately, Meghraj didn't bring any rain-coat or umbrella and you can't buy that from Agoda because the only shop in the village sells only ration items. Once again, Badi Aunty came to rescue and gave her only umbrella, not sure how did she manage day back in Agoda once we had left the place. Trek is well laid path crossing many streams, bridges on the way. Very first bridge we encountered was a make-shift bridge of 2 tree trunks and took quite a convincing (internal) to cross that to reach 'Bevra'. Bevra has the only last dhaba that we were to see on our route and decided to have some tea before heading further.
From Bevra till 'Umbrella', trek is little steep and we covered about 4 kms in 1.5 hours at our speed. It was raining which was slowing us down at few places.
At 'Umbrealla', you will see see a signboard to guide that next destination is 'Manjhi' which is about 5 Km from here.
Trek from here onwards was not much steep and we found our second source of water on the way.
'Manjhi' is an open ground where we found many old houses which are typically used in summer when villagers from 'Agoda' come up to stay along with their cattles for few days. From 'Manjhi', it is further 5 Kms to the Dodital lake and we crossed 2 mountain streams on the way. Unfortunalety, i was not careful enough and made my shoes wet while crossing those :(.
Dodital is also famous for being birth place of lord Ganesha and there is a beautiful and serene templae situated on the left bank of the lake where Pooja and Aarti is done twice a day, Pandit ji is a young guy and very welcoming so don't miss to be part of the Pooja at Himalayas.
We were staying at the first dhaba which is operated by 'Mate ji' who is living at this place from last 20 years and has dedicated his life to serve Mata Annapurna whose temples is situated along with Ganesh Ji and help tourists like us who are coming to this place.It was still raining when we went to sleep,once again with a wish that it should stop raining for tomorrow :).
Day 3
Fortunately, it was not raining heavily and we left the place around 8:30 after having breakfast and carried our lunch.
It took us about 6 hours while coming up and were thinking that we can reach back in about 4 hours but it wasn't a good guess as yesterday's tiredness took toll one me and slowed my speed.
We had our lunch at Bevra and reached 'Agoda' at around 2PM and left for Uttarkashi after thanking Badi Aunty for her help.
