An Adventure

While I was in Delhi, I and my friend had four days to get back to our boring jobs. We decided to make use of the time in the best way possible. We thought of different places and we had myriad places to see, but we wanted something more. After a series of arguments, we decided to go to Manali. Generally, before visiting a place, we prepare a lot. We go berserk, stuffing every useful thing Into our bags in the very last minute. We decided to start our journey without any preparation.We did not book any tickets, didn’t buy any eatables, boy! absolutely nothing(except
some clothes).We just knew that we had to catch a bus from Kashmiri gate(place in delhi). The bus stand was the Worst one I have ever seen. It stunk like hell. Nevertheless, we booked our tickets to Manali. We went around the place and bought some books.(If I remember correctly, It was twilight by Stephanie Meyer, the book sucks though) and then I sat in the bus with my dear friend and kick started our journey. It was some twelve hours journey and we stepped on the forbidden land( not forbidden actually ,I used it just for the sake of it ;-) like our dear old d'Artagnan without remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, we went to bed and slept the sleep of the brave. After resting for a while in a small dingy hotel, we went to a market called the mall and saw people selling woolen clothes and things like that, which people wear in winter. I particularly liked this cow boy hat or something, but the vendor tried a ridiculous price, so dropped the plan. Then, we walked a bit and to my surprise the place was surrounded by mountains, which were like giants ,nah! Like skyscrapers with hundreds of floors .The mountains were covered with lush greenery. Boy, what a beauty! I am not gonna say everyone should see it before dying or something, but it is definitely a good place to be around. If you are a nature lover, Manali is the place you want to go. After having some paranthas (manali special), we
hired a auto rickshaw to see some places around. He took us to some temples nearby, which included Hadimba temple( she is a wife of Bheema ;-) and some Tibetan temples. This Hadimba Temple was bit weird with dried skins of some wild animals around. The Tibetan Temple was a bit different with all the wood work on the walls of the temple and a big Buddha’s statue inside the temple. While coming out of the temple, I had to touch and rotate all the cylindrical
bell sort of things around the temple ( brings you good luck! ). After that, we went to Solang valley and boy, it was like heaven! My friend tried to paraglide there, but lost his balance and fell down while landing. It was fun watching him fall down ;-) . while going back, we stopped by the river bank(Beas) . The view was fantastic there and I remembered this paticular scene from “ the lord of the rings”, where all the water in the river turns into horses and engulfs all the dark riders. it’s view was seriously quite similar to the one in the movie.Then, we went back to our old dingy hotel and rested there for the night. Right from the starting of the journey, we wanted to find a place to trek.
Someone suggested rohtang pass. It is usually covered with snow, but when we went, it was damn ready for a trek. Someone suggested us to take more water bottles, as there will be lesser oxygen as we go up. So, we filled our backpacks with water bottles and thousands of chocolates(tension relievers, you know). We were fairly fit guys then, the other guy is a football player. As we started, one phony women tried to discourage us, but we went on. We did not go much further and we started panting. Boy, we had to rest every ten minutes( it was damn cold up there too), it was like a thousand mile trek. Imagine, how difficult it would be to climb the Mount Everest. Somehow, we reached our destination and we saw some phony guys taking pictures all around(to upload in facebook :-)). We were smug with our efforts and reached home happier with a different experience :-)