Dalhousie Mcleodganj Dharamshala Tour

We had been planning for the Dharamshala trip for a long time. Finally after a long wait, this great trip came true. We started our journey with 8.

Day 1 :
We reached from Anand Vihar station to Chakki Bank station in morning. We hired a 8 seater tavera from there in 9000 rupees to have tour of Mcleodganj , Dharamshala and Dalhousie. We went to Meclodganj first from Chakkibank. It was afternoon when we reached Bhagsu. After looking few hotels we finally got a hotel of all choice. In the evening we went to Bhagsu waterfall.After having about 2 KM of walking up the to the hill,waterfall was enormous and awesome.
                                              Bhagsu Waterfall

Though the water was very cold, most of the tourists were enjoying the fall like water park. One of us was very keen to attend the night party full of girls, liquor and smoking. But he failed as party was already over in last night. So he and some other friends went to disc. In morning we were ahead to Naddi.

Day 2:
In Naddi it was nice view of mountains and hills. Our group had a great photo-shoot.
                                            Naddi's panoramic veiw  

 A panoramic view was there. We enjoyed breakfast of parathas there. A range of mountains were beautiful. After Naddi we moved to Dharmshala. There was good population out there. We had a tour of Monastery, fortunately Lama was there at that day. We lighted the 'Diyas' (10 Rs per Diya :P). It was a nice experience. After there we were ahead to Dalhousie. As soon as we were heading to Dalhousie it was higher than the previous. Most of the road part was inside the cant area. We booked a suit for night. From the hotel the night view was really good in moon light. We enjoyed the market rush there. We took our dinner at a Nepali restaurant.

Day 3:
In morning we went to Dainkund. It was near to Army base.
                                                     Dainkund

 

It had the highest altitude we ever had in our trip, about 3000m. We had great time there. A lot of people were there, from colleges, families everywhere.
                                                       Khajjiar

 After we spent our rest of the day in Khajjiar so called Switzerland of India. It was nice but not that much attractive like we found Dainkund.Though we had plan for zoo, but failed because of some misunderstandings.
Finally we were on way back to Delhi from Chakkibank.

Really a nice trip we had. In the December - January month Dharamshala is jeweled with silver colored snow.

Jodhpur - Mount Abu - Udaipur

This time we planned for Rajasthan again,but not for a day.This trip was of three days. We decided to travel Jodhpur,Mount Abu and Udaipur there sequence. We five left Delhi on Saturday[18/02/2012] for Rajasthan by Mandore Express.I am narrating the three day tour of  Rajasthan.

Day-1 ,Sunday[19/02/2012]:- Train was approximately 2 hours late. So we reached Jodhpur around 9 A.M. We went to hotel SandDunes nearby the station. 

                                            Ummed Bhavan Palace - I

                                             Ummed Bhavan Palace - II

Firstly we went Ummed Bhavan Palace having good interiors and museum .

                                    Aerial View of Jodhpur the Blue City

                                               Mehran Garh Fort

After that Mehran Garh, from where the glimpse of Blue City was watchable. 

                                                  Jaswant Theda

Then Jaswant Theda the so called Taj Mahal of West was also attractive.

                                                   Mandore Fort

Mandore Fort was waste of time as most of the part was dirty and rest of the part was under construction.

                                                   Massuria Hill

                               Aerial view of Jodhpur from Massuria Hill

 

In the last Massuria Hill. From Massuria Hills the city's aerial view in the evening was soothing.Overall it was a great day of our trip.

Day-2 ,Monday[20/02/2012]:-From our hotel we left at 4:30 A.M. for Mount Abu. Here we covered following points:-

                                                    Nakki Lake - I

                                                      Nakki Lake - II

                                                      Nakki Lake - III

Nakki Lake where boating could be done but was relatively costlier.There was nice surrounding of hills.Apart from the boating there was horse riding and shops having traditional outfits. 

                                                Dilwara Jain Temple

 

We went to Dilwara Jain Temple which was maintained well and had great architect.

After that we went to a Jain Temple of Bhagwan dattatreya. 

                                               Devi's Temple on Hill

 

It was on a great height.Above that there was another temple of a Goddess. Cool breeze was on its height.

                                              Observatory on Hill

There was an observatory on the next hill and was not open for public.Brahma Kumari Peace park good and had a small workshop  too. 

                                                    Sunset Point

 

Sunset Point was not the spot we had heard of. Since it was completely ignored by the tourism officials. It was full of scarps and dirt. We waited for the sunset from about 4:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. It was caped with tourists at the time of sunset.
After we were done with Mount Abu we left for Udaipur in evening. We reached Udaipur around 10:30 P.M. and booked two rooms in a economy luxury hotel :) . We then slept after dinner as we had plans for morning.

Day-3 ,Tuesday[21/02/2012]:- Thank to alarms in our mobile phones who made us wake up.It was Mahashivaratri and we went the Shiva Temple near to our hotel.

                                                   Rope-way

There was rope-way but not much fascinating like we enjoyed in Rishikesh.

                                                      Udaipur Palace

So from there we moved ahead to Udaipur Palace or City Palace.This was very nice palace after the Sumedh Palace.

                                                  Near Udaipur Palace

The Palace was giant and beautiful as well.After the palace we went Fateh Sagar Lake .There we also enjoyed camel ride. 

                                                     Saheliyo ki Baadi

There was a way to the Saheliyo ki Baadi by boat which was basically a park surrounded by water.  

                                                   Sajjan Garh Fort

Finally we went Sajjan Garh.From there the aerial view of the whole Udaipur city was great.We reached Udaipur railway station at 4:30 P.M.  Train timing was 5:20 P.M.
So guys that was the end of the remarkable Rajasthan trip.

Trip to Amritsar

Planning :-
After a long time I planned for a trip. Me and my friends planned for Amritsar, one of the a spiritual and cultural center of country. We werethree and trip duration was a day. We targeted three major checkpoints
of our trip.Golden temple, Jallianwala Bagh and Indo-Pak border known as Bagha Border.

Saturday night:- We traveled by train.It was Tata Jammu Tavi Exp.Its scheduled time was 10:00 PM.Thanks to our Indian railways, train was 2 hours late. We got a lot of time to walk around Delhi railway station. We went to hair saloon. Then enjoyed McDonalds burger ,french fries and cold drink.

Sunday Morning  (The judgement day :P) :- We reached Amritsar railway station at 9:00 AM. We hired an auto for Rs. 500. Auto driver told us that there were also some temples around to see. 

We went Vaishno Devi Temple where there was artificial cave and all god and goddess of four major dhams. 

 We also went to Durga Mandir. It was built in vast area.

Then we reached to Golden Temple.It was Sunday so there were a lot of people there.

Golden temple has great grace and glory as i had heard earlier. The management of temple was terrific. We had a good lunch there in Langar. It was well managed process. 

Then we went to Jallianwala Bagh, it was not far from the Golden Temple.There were signs of the bullet, well,monument and Amar Jyoti (powered by Indian Oil :P).
We finished things on 2:00 PM for Bagha Border  function. Around 2:30 PM we left for Bagha Border. It was near 30 Kms from the city.This took 1 hours , I guess. 

Bagha border was a nice experience. There was a border having a gate and the two sides had two naghbour contries. There were people from Pakistan opposite to us. There were songs for the country. Loud voices of "Hindustan Zindabad" ,"Vande Matram"from our side and "Jhule Jhule Pakistan" and some Urdu slogans from Pakistan side. There were school girls having Tiranga in their hands running towards the gate. Group dance was also there from our side on famous patriotic songs.I couldn't see that kind of enthusiasm from Pakistan.Then there was combined march of the two countries in center and bringing the national flags down after sunset simultaneously.

Sunday Night:- We got ample time since we were done on 7:00 PM and the return train was after two and half hours.We walked in market front of the Railway station. Then we had our dinner in "Pahalwan di Dhaba". After having dinner to our heart content we were in our train "Golden Temple Exp." which was right on the time.

Monday Morning:- Though train started right in night but reached "Hazrat Nijamuddin Station" 2 hours
late.Bingo again 2 hours. A great one day trip was over and we were back to the daily action.

Vrindavan, Mathura and Agra Trip

Here is another trip, again targeted for a day. This time we planned to have a trip in Vrindavan, Mathura and Agra. Planning & Planning :- We booked a cab from Delhi to pick up at Sultanpur Metro station on Sunday.It was innova (6+1) seats. Its cost was around 5600 Rs.Five of us were sure to go but
the sixth slot was ambiguous.In late night we were 7 persons ready to go.Further i am describing interesting summary of the whole trip:-
3:00 AM to 8:00 AM :- We woke up in morning at 3 o'clock.Three persons from Sultanpur got ready till 4:30.We had to pick up the seventh man from Gurgaon.He reached there by bike in early morning.We firstly went to pick two guys from IFFCO colony.But we were shocked when we saw three person coming out of the flat.Hence we had 8 persons then.We thought about the comfort and the management of cab then we simply asked the new one to go back to the flat.We Picked the friend on bike.Then the driver told
that he might be fined for boarding seven persons in a 6+1 seated cab.
I made my mind to sacrifice the trip.I gave the excuse of sleeping and washing my clothes.Another friend was also tried the same.With full of turn and twists third friend from Sultanpur sacrified the trip.Finally we six left Delhi at 5:00 AM.We reached the Vrindavan at 8:00 AM. We stopped at a tea shop and enjoyed the tea.It was very killer kind of cold there.

8:00 AM to 3:00 PM :-Then we went to "iskcon temple". It was early morning and the floor of marbles were like ice slabs.One of our friend met his college friend there coincidentally. After that we went to Banke-Bihari temple where the prayer was on the way. After that we reached to Krishna-Janm-Bhumi.

We also tried to visit to Dwarikadhish Temple but its door were closed as we were late.We were tired and hungry too.

3:00PM to 6:00 PM :-It was about 3'oclock and we were hungry then we took lunch in a luxury hotel (:P) .
After having lunch in Agra we were in line to the gate of great Taj Mahal.

It took about 2 or more hours in Taj as there were a lot tourists there on Sunday.  After having fun and most importantly pics we bought "Agra ka Petha" while returning.

It was a great trip to remember.

Haridwar - Rishikesh Trip

It was the 9^th day of April, when we were going for Haridwar-Rishikesh trip. We  started travelling by train in late evening and reached Haridwar on 10th April at morning.The morning was quite cold as we were not ready for such a chill weather, we just wraped ourselves with clothes.

We searched for a “dhramshala” for 1-2 hrs. Here we came to know that why tourists in India  are forced to accept “thagi”. Everyone there has his own business, they have no need to search job outside, because for them money flow is coming automatically, only they have to set up the business and grab the money. So that is good for living purpose, as people are close to their family so they have forced to have some morality aspect with them.
                                                  Neer Water Fall

                                                       

So As we had already opted for travel package, we went to our contractor and after that we moved with guide for trekking, we went to see waterfall, it was nice .

                                                        Camping

 

After that we went for rappelling and at the end of first day the camping. So it was nice to spend time near to bank of Ganga. It was really a very awesome scene with awesome feelings. In evening and late evening we enjoyed there, there was bonfire which we enjoyed. One of our friend choose a girl named Nitika, he tried to flirt with her, but didn’t get enough time with her. Although we enjoyed that all. After that we had lanterns in front of our camps. Camps were nice and as we  had chat till late night and as we felt  cold we slept.
                                                       Rock Climbing

Next day on 11th April we have to go for rafting the river rafting. We had thought that it was just an event which we had to do, not too much excited. We were lucky that day that we got good company of a Denmark Girl, one sailor from Laddakh, and one local sailor cum guide. All persons were humorous and they made river rafting the best event of trip. There was very good scenes around us, we were enjoying body surfing in Ganga and there were some good rapids having interesting names like "Black Money", "Double Trouble" ,"Roller Coaster","Hilton & Terminator" which made us feel the power of water. We enjoyed that too much. Besides that exciting event of cliff jumping was awesome. Everything was awesome.
                                                    Tapovan Resort

After completing we went a high class Resort, where we took a long rest. We checked out the resort  in mid of the day on 12th April.We came to Haridwar and rested in a cheap but  a good hotel.Although we were missing our one friend and thinking if he would have been there then we have no time to rest. But as he was not there with us, we had taken rest. The rest was too long we rested till next afternoon.
                                                     Hari Ki Paudi

                                                      Mansa Devi Temple

After noon we moved to “Har ki paidi” and “rope way to Mansa Devi mandir”. Both were good, noting special which I have to describe.

After that we moved to the Haridwar railway station, where we techies were not able to search our platform, that really made us laugh on system and on ourselves. After that we slept for few hours and reached in night back at home.In the morning all of us were tired .

But at the end it was a nice trip indeed.