एक सुहाना सफ़र मनाली का –अम्बाला, रोपड़ के रास्ते माँ नैना देवी के भवन (भाग १ )
वहाँ चाय पीने के दोरान पता लगा की वहाँ से "नैना देवी" का मंदिर पास में ही है, तो सर्व सहमति से निर्णय लिया गया की पहले नैना देवी के दर्शन कर लेते है फिर आगे का सफ़र तय करा जायेगा . ढाबे से निकलने के...
View ArticleChail alone
Next morning, by 9.30am, the folk market work was on full swing and I was saying adieu to Chail. Hold on, experience did not end here; I just started driving my car, the first turn left and a person...
View ArticleChhotta Chandratal – A journey through the clouds
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour…” - William Blake After a month of planning and constantly living in...
View Articleमनाली का सुहाना सफ़र: सुंदरनगर, मण्डी के रास्ते मनाली और माँ हिडिम्बा देवी के...
फिर भी उनमे से २ लड़को के ज्यादा जिद करने पर हमने आपनी गाड़ी उनकी बाईक के पीछे दौड़ा दी जो की हमें एक होटल में लेकर गए, ये होटल रोहतांग वाले रास्ते पर व्यास नदी के उलटे हाथ की तरफ था जो की हमें कुछ ठीक...
View ArticleKareri Lake ~ a poetic trail
Gaddis are basically a nomadic tribe who mainly lead a pastoral life depending on their cattle for their livelihood and wander in the high altitude alpine meadows for green and protein rich grass for...
View ArticleA Serene Kasauli Trip
Finally we reached our destination Kasauli after a 7 hour wonderful road journey, which made us more energetic. The only motivation about this trip was that we would detox our soul with this trip....
View ArticleBike Ride to Chitkul in HP from Delhi
The day! We had plans to move to Chitkul – About 250 KMs from Shimla and 3450 meters above the sea level. This is the last town in India and is near Sangla. The population of Sangla is about 650-700...
View ArticleLadakh Calling… (Part 6) Leh – Sarchu (260 Kms)
From “Zing Zing Bar” it was more a downhill journey & our bulls were easily cruising through. By the time we reached “Darcha” it was 12:00 Hrs. We had a cup of tea with hot maggi & pushed of...
View ArticleAmazing trip to snow covered Shimla
Next morning when we woke up, the view outside our hotel room was awesome. We had our tea and a small walk on balcony of our room just to have a view of Shimla at that time. The only thing which I can...
View ArticleK5 Chandigarh to the Hippyland Kasol and Manikaran
It was a great relief when we crossed Bilaspur. Next big milestone was for Sunder Nagar which is about 43km. It was my first trip on this route. I had heard all the names of the places en route, but...
View ArticleDoing nothing in Fagu, beyond Shimla
I must tell you readers about Fagu-which is 23km away from Shimla (and 3km from Kufree) is a great place for doing nothing and morning walks among apple and potato fields. Fagu is ,situated on the...
View ArticleSolo Travel, Himachal Tribal Circuit – Spiti Valley
Next morning brought a very pleasant surprise. In the morning, I was having tea in the hotel balcony, clicking pictures of the serenity of Spiti valley. One youngster arrived in the compound of the...
View ArticleSolo Travel, Himachal Tribal Circuit – Lahaul Valley
During this stretch, a car had a flat tyre in the middle of a stream. The traffic had halted and the passengers of our bus, helped in changing the wheel. We started crawling forward, for being blocked...
View ArticleRide to Kibber
ad astra per aspera which literally means, "a rough road leads to the stars" and this pretty much came true for us when we started our ride from recong peo to tabo. recong peo was a let down. i am...
View ArticleTo 13800 ft and back on foot – Sar Pass – I
The Sar Pass Trek itself is for 11 days with 3 days at base camp, 4 days climbing and 3 days descending and breaking on the last day. It costs around Rs. 3000/- per head including accommodation in...
View Articleकालका-शिमला पर्वतीय रेल –एक अद्भुत सफ़र
घुमक्कड़ी की शुरुआत तो हमने धार्मिक यात्राओं से ही की थी, लेकिन जब से घुमक्कड़ तथा अन्य वेब साईटों पर यात्रा वर्णन पढने का...
View Articleसपनों का शहर शिमला
उम्मीद है इस श्रंखला की पिछली पोस्ट आप की उम्मीदों पर खरी उतरी होगी. चलिये अब आगे बढते हैं……. जब हम लोग इस टूर...
View ArticleThe first leg of the drive to Manali: Delhi to Chandigarh
Thing with us tech savvy people is, we overload ourselves with information on the routes, places etc months, weeks before the actual date comes and I wasn’t different either. It was just two years...
View ArticleMandi to Manali – the charm begins
I was prepared in advance for the journey but still wasn’t sure that where the 3Kms long tunnel is (Its at Aut BTW), also when would Pandoh dam would come and if its on the same road or again offroad...
View ArticleManali to Rohtang : Yes! We did it finally
Rani Nallah was waiting for us for a long jam. Took at least an hour in which cab driver of ours & of the one in front of us putting hard work to help out others to come out that water logging at...
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