Remember how we overloaded ourselves in Kheer Ganga? The National Green Tribunal (NGT) through the High Court had to ban tourism in Kheer Ganga. Personally, it was a big relief for me. I was tired of these ‘adventure companies’ promoting the Kheer Ganga trek in Parvati Valley for as low as 4000 Indian rupees. Himachal Pradesh had witnessed a toxic tourism growth that was killing the whole region steadily. For heaven’s sake, the very purpose of a mountain trek is to seek solace and take a break from the chaos. Why would you want to take your plastics, your loud hip-hop music, and your faked hopeless hippie imagery up there and spoil it all?

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Incidents in Dzukou Valley

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Incidents in Dzukou Valley
In November 2018. A massive forest fire erupted in the scenic Dzukou Valley in Nagaland. It took more than 60 volunteers especially from the local organization called Southern Angami Youth Organization (SAYO) to contain the fire in a dawn to dusk, do or burn away operation. Although there was zero human causality, the flora and fauna took a massive hit. The volunteers have to use sack clothes and machetes in a close encounter with the fire. Some trekkers from Manipur have camped in the southwestern area of the Dzukou valley and had left a fire for cooking unattended. This might be a one-off incident in Dzukou Valley that exhibited a peril in the making for an impending course of action. In 2014 January, a forest fire in the nearby Mt.Japfu was almost at loggerheads to annihilate Dzukou valley. The army had to use choppers to contain the spread of the fire. The source remains a mystery, as most of the terrain was not accessible on foot.

The Dzukou Valley Trek

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Maintained by the Southern Angami Youth Organization (SAYO) in Kohima, the Dzukou valley trek is nature’s craftsmanship done without stray thoughts. The valley spreads across the states of Nagaland and Manipur and is at an altitude of 2452 m. The Dzukou valley trek has two flavors – the summer and winter.

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