TRAVELLING...it is something that man is naturally prone to do..from the time man distinguished himself from the monkeys and began to walk(from the 1st austropilithicanus africanus-->have i spelled tht one right) he has found an interest in traversing looong distances..and here i am an inheritent of those qualities possesed by those ancestors of ours(:D).I am going to talk abt my travels fr this month..Anyway bfre i start i would like to mention that in 2003 i was able to visit some european countries like switzerland and scotland and i didnt think that the scenery there could be replicatd anywhere else..and lo..was i wrong or what--->> it was to be foung right here in our own backyard in the states of Himachal pradesh and UTTaranchal.
My family consisting of my dad,mom,sis and me left fr Delhi on the 7th of May an was it hot or what there with me burning my butt at the 45 degrees..anyway a welcome escape came in the form of Shimla where we stayed fr 2 days..shimla i s the capital of the state of himachal pradesh and i dont mind saying that the place is truly blessed with scenery..we shopped at Shimla town..munched ourselves on some truly delicous momo and feasted on the best chicken soup available anywhere in the world.Urz truly was also able to have a tryst with horse-rididng ..doing the same with a yak and holding a 9 foot python which was coiled around my neck..and then came the truly beautiful part..which was MANALI..
Manali is quite simply the most beautiful place in India..i mean one doent even need to go to manali town fr that matter..even the road to manali is filled with the most amazing scenery..then coming to our stay at Manali itself was mindblowing experience..we stayed at this hotel next to the river beas in its full vigour.Then came our trek to rohatng pass...at 4000m this place is a gate way to the kashmiri city of Leh..the road was an extremely rugged one and looking out of ur side windows meant experiencing 'VERTICAL LIMIT'.Once we reached the top we feasted on some omlette(yes people there r people at this place who makes this stuff evn under such bad climatic circumstances)..once in ROHTANG i had my tryst with skiing and well u could say ice-gazing...the climate was a bloody -10 ..so our stay there was limited to a time of 2 hours ..which was completely funfilled ..then is was time to leave MANALI..manali was like the apex city we visited so evry other place on comparing just fades..
The latter half of the trip was not as interesting to me fr reasons of my own as i was stuck with food poison at uttaranchal..i had to face ice-storms..land-slides and leopard infested forests ..not to mention a 5000 kg cedar tree that had fallen across and blocked the road.ANYWAY if the gross total i taken i could safely say that it was an awesome trip which was fun-filled and not a dull-moment--well even an ice-storm could give u the thrills right..r should i use the word chills here ;).. well thats all for now..thanks for having the patience to read this thing..
Coming to the pics..well let me explain it from top left in a clockwise manner..the 1st picture shows me at the vast snow plains of the awesome Rohatng pass..the 2nd picture shows me holding a python at kufri..i just uploaded the 3rd one to show that we had to cross this river in a 4*4..this SUV as you see was stuck in that river and it took abt 20 minutes to get out..and well the 4th pic shows the icy roads of rohatng..see i meant it when i said rugged roads.. :)
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