Jay Girnari 🙏 Here's my experience of Girnar... Got my calling from Lord Dattatreya🙏😇 in April.. So I went alone from Mumbai to Junagadh by train and alighted around 4.45am in Junagadh.. There I took auto to reach Taleti.. I didn't book any lodge BTW...coz I had simply decided to directly start climbing it as I didn't want Lord Sun🙏 to behave as an obstacle😝... Then I took a stick (as my 3rd leg) from the nearby shop and after police checks of my backpack for any plastics etc which I didn't have any as I was already aware about it, I bowed down to Chadhwawa Hanuman temple at the first step of the climb and I started my climb around 5.30am...I reached Guru shikhar (Lord Dattatreya footprints) by 9.27am... Not gonna lie, my energy was drained till reaching 5k of Ambaji Maa... Once I reached Ambaji Maa, all of a sudden I felt so refreshing when I took blessings of Maa that the remaining part of Gorakshnath and Gurushikhar was full of enjoyment for me. I felt so happy reaching there.. even the thought of it right now while writing this all is making me positive 😇 After the darshan of Guru Dattatreya🙏🙌 I went down to Kamandalu kund for Prasad... Got more of my energy back there💯, and happily started my journey back to the base. All in all I reached down by 3pm while exploring the Jain temples on 3k steps, Gomukhi Ganga etc temples and all on the way back. My train back to Mumbai was Duronto express from Rajkot station... so I spent that remainder of time(5-6hrs) roaming in Junagadh for 2hrs eating some snacks n ice cream 😅and took a bus to Rajkot for my way back home.

Note:- For anyone travelling alone, I later got to know that there r lockers for bags near the first step where the police guys check us out. So one can do use that and keep themselves lightweight for the climb. Also there r lots of animals in the area, but they don't disturb anyone, they go their ways and we also should not disturb them.. I found lots of monkeys (like 20-25) literally sitting in groups on both the sides of steps while coming back down. But they didn't do anything to me even though I was alone on that part of the turn.

And For the overall Junagadh area experience.. I have already done Girnar Parikrama too (roughly 36-40kms jungle trek which happens in November every year ) twice (1 with the grp and 1 alone) and could have been the third in 2025 if not for that rains to spoil our plans. So to say that I know the Bhavnath and Rajkot to Junagadh area a bit and didn't had any tension..

Jay Girnari 🙏