It was a New year
evening and we “The gang” decided to go on a vacation and the destination was
Chandigarh-Shimla-Kufri-Manali. We ladies were excited as always and started
discussing on the outfits and on the other hand our better halves started
planning (which took 3-4 satva Visit ;)).
Finally the day was here! We boarded early morning flight from
Bangalore and landed at Chandigarh airport around 10 AM. We had hired the self-driven
car from Chandigarh, the car was there near airport on time, it was a little
circus putting the language on the carrier and got started with our stupendous
journey.
The very first stop was “Panjabi dhaba” !! Had
mouth-watering “alloo paratha’s (parota, Pranthe)”, boarded the car back with
full stomach and the next destination was Shimla. Reached Shimla in the evening
got freshen up and went on to take a stroll in the “Mall road”. It was a nice spent
evening.
Next day morning we started from Shimla to Kufri hoping, we
get to see the snow. We were little disappointed as even on second day we did
not get to see the snow. But what if not snow we enjoyed horse ride and hot
beverages on the cold evening.
Our next destination was “Manali” which was around 7-8 hours’
drive. We all were ready for the long journey but I did not know that it’s going
to be the nicest drive I have ever had. After few kilometres, we get to travel
along with the river “Beas” till we reach Manali. I truly have no words to
explain the beauty of nature along with the beautiful river.
After a long beautiful journey, reached Manali around 7 PM and
guess what!! It was snowing there. We
checked into the hotel. We witnessed snow fall within 15 mins and we all
literally went crazy as it was first time for many of us.
The next day morning decided go to solang valley. It was a snow ride. We drove our 4 * 4 Scorpio
till the valley and It was “WOW” just “WOW”. I had never seen so much white
color around me before, it was just like those of wall papers we see!
After 2 nights stay in Manali we headed back to Chandigarh,
spent a night there, visited rock garden and enjoyed the delicious local cuisine
and back to base.
I insist snow lovers to visit Manali once during winter!
See you all again with my next travel tale soon!!
