Mountains Are Calling, can you hear it as well?

Hi Local Guide Folks,

There is a very strong feeling inside me that transforms into a virtual magnet which gets pulled towards another larger stronger virtual magnet residing in the mountains. And this attraction is so strong that it leaves me with no other option but to quickly pack my Rucksack with my winter clothing, hiking footwear, some power bank, torches, etc. and the most important equipment my DSLR kit and my mobile phone.

Hello everyone, I am Devansh a Level 8 Google Local Guide from India who is mad about photography, traveling to the places like mountains, hill stations, glaciers, waterfalls, etc. and sharing my experience with the whole World through Google Maps.

Google Maps, a global tool that helps you to navigate through the paths to the unknown unprecedented world and as simple as takes you to your office and home as well. Through Google Local Guide feature I can add my feeling, my experiences about all those places that I visited in the past through textual descriptions, photographs, videos and not to forget those amazing 360 degrees Panaromas. Adding missing information or places or editing the existing erroneous information about places is a great feature to support the drive to improve always and make world a better place. Helping people who have some query about places that we have already visited in past is another added benefit Google Maps provides to Local Guides. When it comes to me, in addition to above, why I am excited about Google Local Guides is the amount of happiness and love I get from people from all around the globe in form of likes and views on my contribution. That fills me with encouragement to do more and better whatever I have done it now.

My Journey with Google Maps as Local Guide started with an incident that I cannot forget yet. While I was on a trip to Himachal way back couple of years ago, we found an exciting place for food on the road side. We were a bunch of 7 friends. So, we wanted to let our other friends to visit that place while they take the same road to Himachal. But how do we do it, we opened Google Maps and that place wasn’t there on it, then we figured out a way to add it and from then I have been contributing day in day out for all te places that I visit so that people don’t miss out on the fun that I had.

Google Maps helps us in all the perspectives from day to day to visiting occasional or even rare places. And I feel equally encouraged to return the favor in whatever way it may be possible.

Coming back to my passion for travelling and photography, I would like to share my experiences during my recent trekking trips to Himalayas, one of them was from Kasol to Kheerganga and another one from McLeod Ganj to Triund and back. Both of the tracks has its own set of differences.

When I visited the Kheerganga trek, it was a chilled winter time of December and the trekking paths are quite narrow and steep. Google Maps helped me to figure out the paths when I felt like lost.

Also, I could find my Cafes on the way and I added photographs, 360s and videos of them so that people get to know about those places.

Similarly, while I was on a hiking trip to Triund from McLeod Ganj, it wasn’t too cold as those were the days of this very month (April) only. The paths were broader but filled with quite wobbly stones that adds to the risk while hiking. Also, there were many small cafes on the way to binge on to keep the strength for hiking.

We took endless pictures/videos/360s for 2 days on reaching the top, both the places Kheerganga and Triund and quickly uploaded them to Google maps after reaching back to my hotel in the valley.

Thanks

My Instagram Page

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Beautiful post, dear @RamboRazor

Well written and presented!

The written content is interesting to read and photos are context sensitive.

However, little more details of the Camera used, would have raised interest more.

All the best

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Wonderful shot

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Thanks You @TravellerG for all the kind words.

Going forward I will put more information in the post to keep it more engaging and interesting.

Thanks for the lovely wishes. You always encourage and guide us so well.

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Thanks @RHoqueBD :pray:t2:

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You are always welcome my dear @RamboRazor - your interest to learn makes me more caring towards you.

Love you all…

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Thank You Sir** @TravellerG **

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Thanks @RamboRazor for your beautiful thoughts and your amazing pictures and you also presented very well keep it up :+1::+1::+1:

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@RamboRazor remarkable description and introduction alongwith superb pictures. You have shared some great shots of your journeys. Was quite enchanted to learn that Google Maps can be used in trekking too.

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Thanks @JMD9 for such encouraging words.

Would love to share many more pictures and thoughts in the future. :slight_smile:

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Thanks @giribpai for going through the whole post and such kind words. This encourages me to do even better. Thanks again.

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Hi @RamboRazor and welcome to Connect!

Thank you for sharing your first post! Your photos are fantastic! I’m looking forward to see more of them here. :slight_smile:

Since you’re new to the community, you might want to share a bit more about yourself and get to know others in our monthly Introduce Yourself - June 2019. You can also take a look at these 14 helpful tips for using Connect, and What are Connect topics?

I’m going to move your post to the Local Stories section on Connect where the Local Guides from all around the world share their local stories and inspiration why they like to be Local Guides and how they contribute to Google Maps. I will also add a Photography tag.

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Hi @RadieN ,

Thanks for the warm welcome.

After my first post I am feeling positive and quite excited about this community. Will surely be adding more informative and useful content in the coming future. Looking forward to have more engagement on this portal.

Thanks for sharing the useful Tips links, will go through to learn more about them.

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You’re welcome @RamboRazor . I’m happy that you like the community!

If you need some help while getting acquainted with Connect, don’t hesitate to tag a Google Moderator and ask.

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Hello** @RamboRazor **

Thanks for sharing your experience from Himalayas; all photographs are really mind blowing. I hope our fellow local guides will consider the useful details which you have shared in your post.

Looking forward to read about you’re next adventure trip. :slight_smile:

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Thanks @IshantHP_ig for your kind words.

Will be sharing more of such experiences soon filled with adventures from different trips.

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Wow , amazing picture @RamboRazor you so kind shared with us . Enjoy your trip

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Thanks @Nyainurjanah for the love.

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Nice Clicks Bro…!! :+1:

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Ek din mai bhi ayse pahado par jaana chata hu …one day

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