Dzukou Valley Diary

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The priceless "Dear diary" moment. 😎😎😎 
What? Priceless? 
Yes, priceless for me. 🙌🙌🙌





The evening we left for Dzukou valley. We were so excited because we thought we were gonna spend a good time with the moonlight. 
Travellers' Inn, Kohima. We searched around Kohima for hotels. We ended up here. Single room - 1000; double room - 1200. Everyone enjoyed his oats and tea and newspaper. I was left with this. 💆



Kewepfu, Eco Taxi driver (Kevi - 7630878690) and Zara. Dimapur to Kohima - 1800 INR, Kohima to Viswema village (entrance of Dzukou village) - 1500 INR.

First rest house. It was raining. We decided to have our breakfast here (cream bun, parantha and maaza juice) and started our trekking up to the mountain. 




After 10 minutes of crawling up 😏😏😏

This fire was a heaven to us as we had been soaked for an hour before reaching this place. 

How cold was Dzukou? This much!

No sun, no problem. I'm a happy man.









Guest house and a kitchen. Tea - 30, Noodles - 60, Firewood - 10, Mattress - 50, Blanket - 50, Utensils - 100, and kitchen has a cost rent too.

Tourists from Bangladesh didn't get a cave to sleep in. They rolled out the tent outside this guest house. It was so cold that they couldn't sleep outside, and so they boozed up themselves behind this guest house. They were very noisy till around midnight. There were other tourists too inside this house. They started shouting from around 5 am. Did we get enough sleep? No, we did not. 

Rekindling our sweet memories: Away from the normal world. No light, no network. Just us sitting by the fire and chatted like we used to when we were kids. 

Chicken for dinner...yayyy!!!

Again. How cold was Dzukou?After dinner no one mentioned about washing up or at least brushing teeth. Water in the bottle seemed to be colder than putting it inside a refrigerator. Cap in bed, three blankets, double socks, double pants, sweaters, Manshong and Hriata spooning each other. Did we sleep peacefully? No, we did not!

8:30 am clicked: Planned to go down to the valley at 6:30 am. 

Water source

Guest house

From the guest house toward the valley










Where people used to sleep



We climbed up to the peak of the mountain from Dzukou Valley. We took around an hour to reach the top. From the top of this mountain, we walked for around 4 hours down towards the nearest village.



Amazon Rain Forest of Nagaland?  :)




Mushroom


Poison Ivy

That mountain covered by a cloud. That's the mountain I talked about.






Kewe went ahead of us and put these to give us directions.






Jakhama village. Another way to the valley.

Taxi to Dimapur taxi station. 30-40 minutes from Jakhama. He charged us 450 INR.

We asked the driver of Kohima to Dimapur taxi if we could have our dinner on the way as we didn't have anything the whole day. He said no as it was already very late. But he later let us have food on hearing us talking about being too hungry and tired.
Our campus from the town is about 3 km away. We requested both Anguka and Imsu to come and pick us up by their cars. Both were ready to come. Then we told Anguka to take rest and told Imsu to pick us up. I took a shower with hot water and then slept peacefully.
All thanks to my trip mates - Manshong, Zoi, Kewe, Hriata and Priya.


Location: Dzuko Valley Trail, Nagaland 797005, India

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