Thursday, May 25, 2017

My Travelogue of Himalayas

One year ago, i was having me time on my bed and my cellphone rang. It was my yaar Aditya Agarwal, the person with whom i do feel as my good companion in my leisure times. He asked me to come Noida with some genuine pair of outfits by the next hour and didn't tell me the reason to come. I was confused and anxious to go because my exams were about to start by the coming week. Nevertheless,i went and found that he was planning to travel Himachal Pradesh for a week. He didn't asked but commanded to accompanied with him and his friends. At the first moment i outraged him and flabbergasted for the cause to ask me to come here, but secondly i thought a little bit to at least once think about it. I was frisson and asked him what to do now. he compelled me to ask from my family to come with him on this trip. I asked them about this and fortunately they agreed to go and send me some money thereafter.
Then officially my trip started. My friend called his other friends to come on his flat and i got to know about all of them and they all were really nice and friendly to me. We started to arrange everything needed on our trip. We had already booked a car and were determined to leave the city by 3 am. I was also excited because this was my fist trip with my wild friends and have had never saw everything happened over there. W were chilling on the flat on the high sound music and smoking hooka. 
In mid night at around 2 am, we went to sip Chai on NH 24, meanwhile our driver also came so we asked him to directly come at the Tea point and unlikely he met with an accident. Then he informed us about it so we rushed to the spot and we found him drunken. We all were worried from the claims of the victim to compensate his damages on his car by 12000.
We negotiated him and asked to let him down, but he was stubborn on his claim. and at last we informed the owner of the car and and he said to let the driver gone to police station and he will manage by coming there in the morning. So we went back to the flat and our trip was almost there to be cancelled but somehow we managed at last gasp to book a new car for us.
In the morning our new driver came and lastly we left the city for the trip. We bring down the spot where we had to stop to half of it.
Firstly we took the break for having lunch at Amrik Sukhdev, an internationally recognised dhaba and byword for it's luxury. I have had never gone there and i don't believe to call it a dhaba at all. Moving on, than we crossed Haryana and entered in the Land of Fiver Rivers.
In the evening we took a break somewhere on our way in Punjab. When i stepped outside i didn't think it of Punjab and was misunderstood to be in Haryana still. But suddenly i saw a modified car with some Punjabi Gabrus than i believe we are in the small world of punjabi's well known for their efforts in the agriculture sector and also their Punjabi Lassi equivalent to two glasses for normal lassi in Northern India. Meanwhile, we all did bakchodi and masti with our shy travel mate Fuzail Bhai.
After that we started to move upward on the Shiwalik ranges after crossing Pathankot. We were already late according to our plans. so we made Vox Populi to reach our destination by travelling in night. When we were on our way, we didn't see any other car moving with us or coming back from the mountains. There was black out everywhere and were anxious and literally i was every nervous and reciting ram ram to not let me die in this horrible place. However, we reached to our destination, Dalhousie at 1 am.
There we went to the hotel, but because of our delay to check in, our room was already occupied by someone else.But manager arranged our accommodation to his under furnished rooms nearby to the hotel. He also send his two staff ,basically they were teenagers who accompanied with us to the place. When we reached there, they helped us to shift our luggage in the room, and one of my travel mate owed one of them by 50 bucks and i was astonished with the smile on their face by getting 50 bucks.
The reason for the smile was, they don't have any other employment other than the tourism and they are curious to earn more for their needs.
When we entered, the rooms were quite nice, compelling and picturesque  to Dalhousie. We relished there and had had dinner in the hills of Himalayas.
Next day, we left for Khajjiar, resembled with Switzerland. When the PM of switzerland came there, he called it the Mini Switzerland Of India. But our way for it was not so easy, at first our car slipped quietly into a ditch, but one of the traveller was there from Nepal, smoking joint, helped us. He reversed our car in the single moment from the long ditch, as Nepalese are suppose to be very expert in driving on the narrow hills. Secondly the road was too narrow to pass and we had to go by making it a two way road. The long ditches are ferocious in such a way that if any car drive into it, than it will never be found. Nevertheless, we reached to the our next destination. the spot was really beautfiul, amazing, and one of the best picturesque place to visit in India.
By stepping my foots there the only thing came in my mind, god doesn't give a family or friends or a professional job to serve, but a nature also to see the wonderful places, to got to know about the culture different and nice to us, a way to please our life in the laps of beautiful Himalayas.
Moving on, we went to Macleodganj, a Tibetan refugees city cum a place blessed with his Holiness Dalai lama and the Buddhist culture, passing by Kangra, kullu and dharamshala. While in the travelling, we were getting rid of our songs playlist to play again and again and almost exhausted by sitting a the same sit for a long time, then suddenly our driver played some songs and i would be happy to mention them there: choli ke peeche hai paranda, parande vich dil atka and chumma chumma de de, and these songs reinvigorated our mood and we repeated them for last 1 hour and hooted all the time with the song. This lead us to reach Macleodganj.
When we entered in the land of Mini Lhasa, i thought it more religious and parochial for their traditions, norms and customs but we found it very compelling, tolerant and very comfortable place for not only to Indians but also for foreign travellers. Most of the Jewish people from Israel come first there and then head towards other spots.
It's also a good place to alcohol consumers and i saw it as almost the Hauz khas of Delhi. We roamed all over to the late night and in the next morning, we went to see the Buddhist monastery and the the temples of lord Buddha.
One thing i found very exciting and compelling that monks do some odd jobs there to not let their body stopped because they believe if they stopped doing something it will ruin their body. They also provide normal meal as equivalent like lamgars in gurudwara's to the needy. Buddhist monks are really nice, tolerant and peace loving people.

After being religious, our young blood doesn't want to go back without having some adventure. So we rented four Duke Bikes and explored the hidden Macleodganj. The difficult part on riding in Macleodganj is their roads are upright and ain't made for inexperienced rider and fortunately i was sitting behind the well experienced man in our group and i relied upon him completely kyuki aisi kathin paristithi mein ap kuch kr bhi nh skte. 
After leaving Macleodganj, we planned to see the stadium in Dharamshala. We didn't get it as good but after coming back from there our travel mate, Ashish bhai got the chance to show his strength by lifting everyone of us one by one and hum jante hai ashish bhai apne gym kri hai.
After all, our days in Himachal came to the end and we left for our home. On our way back, we went to Chandigarh, Ludhiyana, and the best memorable moment for me in our trip is jab do harami launde apni baatein shuru krte hain mentioning Ashish bhai and Fuzail bhai.
The level of our bakchodi is up to the level that we didn't notice when we cross Punjab and Haryana. 
By travelling the whole night we came to Delhi and dropped our three travel mate and moving on to Noida than to Aligarh at last.
We also faced some difficulties but i believe our enjoyment overcome to our bad vibes. I've never gone to the beautiful place and with such amazing people. This one was my best trip i ever had.
I learnt many things on this trip but one thing i must say that a person should at least travel in their life because earlier i used to find myself happy in my own city, but when i had gone there than i saw the green nature, than i found how much we are blessed to see the world for the salvation of our lives.
We should know that god doesn't only give us the family but also the nature to be live with.
After coming back from this trip i gave my exam and found myself more refreshed and energetic in those exams than to all the former one's.