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Salda -> Tehri (9.5.25)

Bird’s eye view: Today we travelled around 110 km, roughly northward, from Salda to Tehri, via Devprayag again. The one hour drive back to Devprayag was by the same single lane, then we hit the NH for around ten minutes, and then we were shunted off once again to a single lane road to Tehri. We left at 8.00 am and reached Tehri at 1.00 pm, a little extended in time as we were forced to stop repeatedly, so great were the views. Tehri sports a huge reservoir, because of a dam on the Bhagirathi, just after the river Bhilangna joins it. Height of Tehri is not much, just 5740 ft, so we were wearing summer clothes. Leaving Salda (8.00 am): We left without having breakfast, much to the chagrin of the super-hospitable Mr Chetan. It was only exceeded by his disappointment at us not having played the saap sidi game, which, I suspect, would have involved physically climbing up ladders and descending through slides, a pastime more suited to spirited five-year-olds. The road...