There was never a chance
to meet my best friends of school and college life due our profession work. We
three were put at different states of India. Finally we three moved to Namma
Bengaluru which our hometown. And again, due to our busy work schedule we were
not able to meet up. We were like God!! Why we are in this IT field no time
even to hang out with friends.
We just decided will go
for a holiday for 5 days. Wow, we got 5 days but where to go? While surfing
over internet got so many places to visit from South India to north India. As
we covered most of the places in South India, decided to go to north India and
now comes which place in the month of November. Selecting the Place itself big
deal for everyone. We wanted to cover some good place within budget.
Finally we decide to go to
Manali, but best time to visit Manali is from December during snow fall. That’s
okay man lets visit now for a change and we booked package for 3days through travel agency and also to and
fro flights to Delhi from Bangalore. Since we planned for 5 days trip we
thought of visiting few places in Delhi on first day and last day and we
managed to book flight tickets also based on our plan.
About Bharat Booking:
Bharat Booking is a holiday planner who
provides budget travel packages within India. When we booked there service was
within India, now they are providing International holiday packages too. It was
the best trip arrangement by them in budget price. Service was too good, there
pointers were on time. We had good time in Manali due to them. Thank you Bharat
Booking.
Most
of my friends were like, oh! you people booked everything and you are all set to go.Good, Enjoy. We were like, what? How can we accept we are all set to go for a trip, that too
for Manali without Shopping? People said, don’t but anything here simply you
have to carry everything better to buy everything in Manali. You will get everything
in cheap price. But we didn’t listen to them we purchased jacket, gloves,
monkey cap and other stuff which we are in need. My advice is to carry jacket
before you reach Manali, because on the way in the bus itself we will feel the
cold and it is must to wear jacket once we get down from the bus.
Itinerary
Day 1:
Reached Delhi airport
around 10:30am. Collected our baggage and started towards Delhi city. Since
Delhi has best metro connectivity over the city we decided to travel through
metro. There are many shuttle at airport which takes us to nearby metro
station. We took metro train to New Delhi station.
After reaching New Delhi
station we placed all our bags in clock room and went to explore Delhi. One can
visit all places in Delhi using Metro line maps. We did same thing. We finished
our lunch near to New Delhi Metro station and took metro train to station which
is near to India Gate. Spend enough time at India Gate and went back to NEW
Delhi station through metro to collect our bags and reache RK.Ashram marg at
5PM which was our Delhi-Manali Volvo pick up point.
Day 2:
On the way to Manali we
just experienced cool breeze which took away all stress and tiredness away.Early
morning we reached Manali, Bharat Booking representative welcomed us with warm
smile, oh! Nope with cold smile and transferred us to Adarsh Annexe hotel which
we selected in our package option.
After fresh up, proceeded
to visit Hadimba Devi Temple, Vashisht Hot springs Tibetans
Monastery. We spent enough time in all these places and we were set free
to explore Mall road in Manali which is good place for shopping. Then we went
back to room which is just back side of the mall road.
About Adarsh Annexe hotel:
It is situated in the
middle of the city, situated back street of Mall road. Well furnished Rooms which
were clean and hygienic. Service provided was too good. Yummy and tasty food
provided(Breakfast and Dinner). We are
not aware of tariff as we went in package.
Day 3:
Day 3:
Since
we went in off season, we were said like there will be no snow in the Rohtang
Pass . Even though there will not be snow its worth to visit the place. We were
bit unhappy due to no snow but when we reached Rotand Pass we were surprised to
see snow. When we asked how come there is snow with the shop keepers they said just
yesterday night snow fall happened you people are lucky they added. We felt yes
yes we are lucky to experience snow in off season. We played in snow, did small
trek to nearby mountain and visited frozen lake. Enjoyed well and started back
to room.
Information
collected: National Green Tribunal allows only limited vehicle to Rohtang pass
per day. Rohtang pass will be on subject to availability of permit or weather
conditions. Rohtang is closed on every Tuesday.
After
few min we started to explore manali ourselves. We went to Van Vihar which is
situated in mall road. Later we went for shopping and also ate momos , hot
Jamun,ice cream , chats, bread pakoda , pani poori etc which were different
from what we get in other places. One must taste very tasty and yummy hot jamun
and momos(sold by old lady) at mall road.
Day
4:
After
breakfast, we started towards Kullu and our first point was at Beas river to
enjoy thrilling River Rafting. Later visited some of the places in the Kullu
and returned back to room and again we started to explore places in Manali as
we had enough time.
Day
5:
It’s
a check out day and our return bus was at 5Pm we thought to explore few more
places near to manali so we hired same cab which was arranged by Bharat Booking
for Rs.2100 to visit Hampta and Solang Valley. Morning around 9PM we vacated
our room and went to Hampta which we felt was best experience. It’s an awesome and
best place for trekkers. We spent enough time in the place and started to
solang valley. Since it was off season there was no snow in the solang valley which
spoiled the beauty of the valley. We just spend half an hour in the valley and
returned to Volvo point to catch our return bus.
Day 6:
Early
morning around 5am we reached Delhi near to RK Ashram Marg. We took hotel in
same area as our return flight was at 11pm. We had full day to visit few more
places in Delhi. After fresh up, again we started our journey through Metro. We
visited Akshardham, Qutub Minar, Red Fort and Chandni Chowk and returned to
room. After check out and finished our dinner started towards Delhi airport via
Metro to board return flight to Bengaluru.
