Dear Readers, i just wanted to share my experience of Shimla tour which i have recently completed, lets start the story... my one friend having first marriage anniversary therefore they were making plan to visit somewhere, they were primary making plan to visit GOA, for this reason they came to my home ( Gurgaon) on 01-Feb-2020, i had no idea regarding their plan, they started convincing me to join tour with them, but my heart was not allowing me to be part of any kind of tour because i am sufferring critical stage of financial problem this time, they shared GOA plan with me, i politely denied for this, after that they started thinking about the cheap tour where maximum 6-10 thousands rupees would sufficient, but again i was not ready, they were ready to give me money and requested me a lot for the tour, my wife was also convincing me to go, after a very very long discussion i became ready for Shimla tour, then i have shared the same info to my other best friend and i tried to convinced him for the tour but he was not ready for this and he strictly denied for the trip, after that we have booked the bus ticket from Delhi to Shimla. The plan was to travel from Delhi to Shimla via bus and we planned to take train ticket from Chandigarh to Delh first , if we will not get train ticket then we will take Bus ticket, but later we took train ticket from Chandigarh to Delhi in "Himalayan Queen" train. The tour was planned from 06-Feb-2020 (Thursday) and to 09-Feb-2020 (Sunday).
We did small shopping for outfits and sweaters, bought shoes for my wife. I took WFH ( Work from home) on 6th Feb, and left Gurgaon at 2PM to Noida (to friend's room) with my bike, then we have left room at 7 PM evening and reached "Ram Krishna Ashram Marg" metro station to take the bus, the bush was at 09:40 Evening. we enjoyed a lot in bus, i was doing comedy and everyone was laughing, i was saying like "लाइट बुझ गयी, लग जाओ सब अपने काम पर", sometimes i was saying like "अपने संपत्ति की खुद सुरक्षा करें, अपनी अपनी गर्लफ्रेंड अपने पास रखें", everone was laughing on my these sentences, we have enjoyed a lot inside the bus.
We were not able to see the scenes outside the bus due to the darkness, also we were feeling sleepy. Anyways we have reached almost 5:30 AM morning to Shimla, we came out from the bus, it was almost 1 degree temperature, it was sizzling cold, very quickly i opened the luggage bag and weared jacket, i wear my wife's cap to protect ear from cold, i never felt such cool weather before. i was getting the horrible experience of cold, everyone was worried about the days ahead of Shimla. Now the main challange was location, we were unknown about that place, bus was on the uninhabited place of road, there was a texi stand there and everyone was taking taxi from there to go, we understood that the bus owners must have the collusion with texi stand owners or we can say that this indication was sufficient to understand the overall story of Shimla ahead. There was no other way of transportation that time, in the unavailablity of sunlight taxi was only the option, then we took one taxi and moved towards Shimla Mall road, again the same thing started happening with us i.e collusion, driver started fetching information from us and we were sharing because we needed the hotels and one car, the driver took us to the tour and travel owner, they was started convincing us for the package of two days, he said for 15 thousands, after hearing the amount we came from his shop, we sat into the car and told driver to go Mall road so that we can book hotels there from mobile, then driver took us to another tour & travel owner, he shared us a good and afordable amount (for Kufri & Tattapani, 2 days & 2 night hotel stay) but i had still doubt in my mind like what we are doing is correct or not, but people were with me took decision to
take the package, then diver took us to the hotel, the hotel name was "Shantivan", the driver left us on the main road and two man came near us to take our luggage and started walking up to on stairs, the hotel was on very high, we were breathing highly because we did not have the health to survive on hill area and climbing on hill is very very tough task, walking up on stairs at hill area is like dying, we have reached hotel and the first work i did is checking blanket, mattress & bedsheet, i have checked the washroom and demanded for towel & soap, you must have the question like why i did this... answer is...! last year i visited Rishikesh, i took a hotel near "Parmarth Niketan Ashram", the hotel name is "Raj Palace Hotel", i got a good affordable deal there therefore i have finalize the hotel, i did not checked the blanket, bedsheet and mattress there because we were in hurry to take bath in sacred river Ganga, we slept at night there in hotel after finishing all the day activity and Nilkanth Mahadev visit, the blanket was smelling badly but we did not cared of it and used the blanket because it was raining heavily there hence the temperature was very low there, when we woke up in the morning i checked the blanket because i was feeling something hard in the blanket which pinch me, i saw something very disgusting... there were the dried wound yellow pus on the blanket... there were a lorge area of the blanket was affected of this, i have complained to the hotel manager for this and said "Please be aware from the next time, this was your big mistake", they said sorry for this... but sorry never changes the things... therefore warned people always puts the next step after big investigation there is a good hindi proverb on this i.e "दूध का जला छांछ भी फूंक फूंक कर पीता है".
Kufri Tour
It was almost 7 AM of the morning and we planned to leave hotel on 9 AM, we went to our room and started being fresh, then we took a short sleep, it was almost 10 AM of the morning, then Pintu Jee came to my room and said to leave for Kufri, driver already came and was on the main road. We took tea and left hotel, came down to the main road and sat in the car, the driver name was "Sanjeev Agniras, below is his visiting card, if you are planning to visit Shimla or you are there in Shimla then please contact him, he is very nice person, once
you meet him you will not look for the other man for Shimla tour, Sanjeev is amicable and very happy person, Sanjeev Jee and his service was only the happy part of our Shimla tour, except this everything was horrible for us. We have noticed his one word which he often use i.e "व्यवस्था", every time he used to say like "व्यवस्था बनाते है", "व्यवस्था बनाना है", "व्यवस्था बना लो". After returning from Shimla it is almost 1 weeks till now but we are still using this word. It was fabulous experience with him.
He took to the starting point of Kufri where someone was asking for Package for the Kufri where he was providing Snow Shoes, Dress, Horses etc... he said to take 5400 rupees for couple, we are new at Shimla therefore we did not had any idea regarding this like what should we do now, we thought like if there will be huge snow the we really needed the snow shoes and dress then it might be a good deal to take these things, the we took 1200 one person which is 2400 couple charge for shoes, dress & horse. Then driver took us to the place where we got the stuff and from there we went to the entrance of Kufri for horse riding, there we got to know that the price of shoe is 200, price of dress is 200, and horse riding charge is 500 rupees only, and we spend 1200 each for the same thing.
Kufri was loaded with snow, there was snow everywhere, it was my life's first snow scene.
First time we sat on the horse, we all were very afraid, there were hundreds of horse there, don't know how those horses were trained all horse was walking on corner of the hill, the ditch was on 90 degree of the corner of hill, we were very afraid on the ride because there was no chance to be alive if horse slips and we fall into the ditch, i told to the horse man many times to pull horse into the middle of road , he did also but horse was again coming into the corner, really... it was horrible experience... the road was not good to walk otherwise i must not ride the horse, see the road below in the video
Why they are not making the good road here, there must be the horse union behind this because the people will walk instead of taking horse ride.
After few meters the path was very slippery, many horses slipped and the rider fallen down on the road, many rider fall on the corner of the hill, luckily we were safe. Then we climbed up to the hill, the scene was very beautiful, people were slipping on the road, climbing to the hill on the icy road is very very difficult, however we went to the top of the hill, everywhere was ice, i saw ice & snow first time in my life, therefore it was the most memorable moment for me, these ice was exciting me to run on it to slip on it. Finally we reached on the high of the mountain, we were on Kufri, there was no empty land , ice was everywhere, i was imaging the life of the people who stay in Kufri, it is really very very difficult to survive on such places where temerature is so low, in such places people's life is full of challanges and struggle, i cannot survive in such conditions, i love to enjoy the all 4 seasons, but in hill area winter kind of season resides whole year.
we enjoyed a lot there, we have captured many videos in slow
motion, captured multiple photos, ate maggie noddles. We spend almost 2 hours there. We wanted to capture all the scene and beautiful moments in our eyes, we din't know when next time we will come again here. Then we started getting the calls from the horse man ( a man who tooks us with horse ride), he was waiting outside for us. The most beautiful part of my kufri visit was to walk on icy road, walking on ice was very very difficult but i was walking easily because i was mentaining body balance there, and i never slipped whereas i was taking care of my wife also.
we enjoyed a lot there, we have captured many videos in slow
motion, captured multiple photos, ate maggie noddles. We spend almost 2 hours there. We wanted to capture all the scene and beautiful moments in our eyes, we din't know when next time we will come again here. Then we started getting the calls from the horse man ( a man who tooks us with horse ride), he was waiting outside for us. The most beautiful part of my kufri visit was to walk on icy road, walking on ice was very very difficult but i was walking easily because i was mentaining body balance there, and i never slipped whereas i was taking care of my wife also.
We came down from the hill, sat on the horse, again the same thrill we were feeling as earlier when we went up. Riding horse first time is most fearful ride, but when we rides second time then we do not have that much fear.
We came back to the warehouse of the snow outfits ans shoes.
Then we were very tired and wanted to come back to hotel, my friend and his wife was making plan to see the mall road but it was 5 PM therefore the plan became changed, today was their marriage anniversary ( 08-Feb-2020). we came to hotel and without wasting any time we slept.
After few hours someone was knocking our door, i opened the door and saw that Pintu ( friend who came with us) was there, it was 8:30 PM night, but for us it was like we just slept ans woke up, how 3 hours passed away we didn't know.
He had fight with hotel staff, he said them for dinner and cake, but they denied and said like you need to tell atlease 4 hours before so that we can arrange the things, it was frustrating to us, then Pintu jee called to the called to the owner and told him everything like how you cheated us, i really don't like such facility of hotels, it was not happy stay there. Then somehow manager took us to Mall road where we bought dinner and cakes, then came back to the hotel , it was 10:30 PM. The hotel owner said when we were taking package, he said "Hotel is near the Mall road, there is walking distance from there", he was true... there is walking distance but walking distance is almost 3 kilometers, we need to climb the hill also for this. However we bring all necessary things from the market, now Pintu jee and his wife ( Bittu) was in my room and we were doing the discussion, it was really a awesome moment where we all 4 mambers assembled in a small place. We cut the cake and enjoyed their annieversary, then we took dinner.
We had a plan to visit "Tattapani" tomorrow, therefore we planned to have good sleep today, we bought "Old Monk rum", While coming from Mall road "Pintu" jee said "we need to take this in hot water", i was surperised, i said "you are liying, because i never took rum in my life before, it was my first time, then hotel manager said the same thing, hotel manager said "He is true, you need to take this in hot water", i was excited to take test of it that time. So almost 11 PM we started taking RUM, almost 2 packs we took it was a great fun, rum was not looks like wine or anything else, it was good in teste.
We came down from hotel and sat inside the car, we were started complaining to the driver all the issues that we have faced yesterday, the hotel owner promised us to change hotel at 6 O-Clock morning today but they even not picked our phone, actually we said him to change hotel near Mall road where a small resturant should be present, owner promised us to move a hotel present in "Kali Bari" near Mall road, we din't know where is "Kali Bari" but everyone was saying that it is near the Mall road.
I was not feeling good inside the car, don't know what happend to us... i never had car sickness but i was feeling like vomiting, i stopped the car many times for vomiting but it was not happening, finally i decided to vomit forcefully, i stopped the car and came outside i used my fingers on my mouth for vomitting, then i was feeling good and thinking like no issue ahead, but it was not happened, after few minutes i again feeling like the same. We stopped into the way and did some photo shooting, below are few pics
After few hours someone was knocking our door, i opened the door and saw that Pintu ( friend who came with us) was there, it was 8:30 PM night, but for us it was like we just slept ans woke up, how 3 hours passed away we didn't know.
He had fight with hotel staff, he said them for dinner and cake, but they denied and said like you need to tell atlease 4 hours before so that we can arrange the things, it was frustrating to us, then Pintu jee called to the called to the owner and told him everything like how you cheated us, i really don't like such facility of hotels, it was not happy stay there. Then somehow manager took us to Mall road where we bought dinner and cakes, then came back to the hotel , it was 10:30 PM. The hotel owner said when we were taking package, he said "Hotel is near the Mall road, there is walking distance from there", he was true... there is walking distance but walking distance is almost 3 kilometers, we need to climb the hill also for this. However we bring all necessary things from the market, now Pintu jee and his wife ( Bittu) was in my room and we were doing the discussion, it was really a awesome moment where we all 4 mambers assembled in a small place. We cut the cake and enjoyed their annieversary, then we took dinner.
We had a plan to visit "Tattapani" tomorrow, therefore we planned to have good sleep today, we bought "Old Monk rum", While coming from Mall road "Pintu" jee said "we need to take this in hot water", i was surperised, i said "you are liying, because i never took rum in my life before, it was my first time, then hotel manager said the same thing, hotel manager said "He is true, you need to take this in hot water", i was excited to take test of it that time. So almost 11 PM we started taking RUM, almost 2 packs we took it was a great fun, rum was not looks like wine or anything else, it was good in teste.
Tattapani
We woke up at 8 AM morning, then me and Nidhi started being fresh, we wanted to take a walk before Pintu's waking up, till 8:30 we have been completed our all the activities and we came out from hotel for a walk, i thought to take tea or light breakfast on the road but there was nothing on the road in front of the hotel, i was remembering the mussoorie trip, in mussoorie we just coming out from the hotel market was on walking distance, but in Shimla we did mistake to take hotel, we should see the hotel before confirming anything... i learned lesson here and i suggest you also to see the hotel always befoe taking. Then we came to hotel and went inside Pintu's room , they were being ready, then we ordered tea in hotel, driver was waiting outside on the main road, for man being ready for going anywhere is 5 minutes task but for ladies...! no body can answer... it is the task of hours...! hahaha....We came down from hotel and sat inside the car, we were started complaining to the driver all the issues that we have faced yesterday, the hotel owner promised us to change hotel at 6 O-Clock morning today but they even not picked our phone, actually we said him to change hotel near Mall road where a small resturant should be present, owner promised us to move a hotel present in "Kali Bari" near Mall road, we din't know where is "Kali Bari" but everyone was saying that it is near the Mall road.
I was not feeling good inside the car, don't know what happend to us... i never had car sickness but i was feeling like vomiting, i stopped the car many times for vomiting but it was not happening, finally i decided to vomit forcefully, i stopped the car and came outside i used my fingers on my mouth for vomitting, then i was feeling good and thinking like no issue ahead, but it was not happened, after few minutes i again feeling like the same. We stopped into the way and did some photo shooting, below are few pics
Finally we reached "Tattapani", driver stopped car near those peoples who actually arranges water rafting, driver came out from the car and those rafting man came inside the car and sat on driver's seat and started explaining the package, we strictly denied for rafting, then he said like there is nothing except rafting in Tattapani, it is really worse... in most most of the tourist places almost all the drivers are like this, they have contact to everyone's... it is really frustrating man. We denied for rafting, even i was in the condition for rafting... i got to know that i have hill sickness. Then driver took us to a resturant... again this was the contact of driver... we do not have to eat anything but driver took us and left there before the resturant, we thought like we reached Tattapani, we came out from car and went bank of the canal, we saw there was nothing there, even nobody was there and it was not looking like tourist place anymore, then we asked the same thing from one aunty, she said that this is not the Tattapani, it is almost 5-6 kilometers ahead from here, the driver made us fool here and he wasted our time, then we went to the car and told driver to visit Tattapani place... there we did water boardings, we enjoyed a lot there, just enjoy few pics
Tattapani is really a nice place to visit , i am requesting to all the tour lovers to visit at least once in their life.
We came back to Shimla from there, this time i did vomit, hill sickness is very frustrating sickness, we cannot enjoy...
We did lots of shopping there, one interesting thing happend with us, we went a shop which was about to close, Nidhi and Bittu was taking out the covere products, the sales man were putting the the display product for closing the shop but she tooks out to see, everyone was surperised... both girl were very excited to buy the bags... the carry bags were of very good quality, we bought many bags there... we were laughing after coming from the shop... i said "Shopkeeper must think that these people needs only carry bags, from where they came, there must carry bags are not available", don't know he was thinking like this or not but we were laughing a lot on this, really... we were taking out those products which was moved from the display place of the shop to close the shop...
Then we decided to take food there, we ate chicken items... the food items were very costly there but we did not cared and ate lots of chicken items. Then we started walking towards the hotel, instead of going via streight road we thought to go via shourtcut because yesterday only we came via that way to Mall road, we needed to come down right side of the main road towards the hotel. But i was worried about the wrong way if we take...! the same thing happend... we took a wrong right cut, we came little down to the hill... now everything was strange, we were trying to match the yesterday's scene from our head, i was trying to memorise, i came to the conclusion that we must into the wrong place, now we did not have the sufficient information about our hotel to explain someone, our hotel name is "Shantivan" but this was unknown kind of hotel, then Pintu jee called to the hotel manager, the manager explained the way to us but we were still unknown, then we saw a person there , we gave the phone to him and manager explained the way, then that man told us that your hotel is near "Port Mor" school, now we had a landmark. Now we again came up to the main road and started walking to the road, we were worried about the road and what happen if we again forget the road and manager stop picking our phone, there were no people sorroundings, this was completely deserted way, the strange very loud sounds of animal's or bird's was clearly audible, we were very very afraid, we were worried about the sound also... Bittu said that "Shimla is famous in horror TV Shows, all famous supernatural activities are almost comes from Shimla, when she said this we were in fear of life. Pintu Jee was continuously talking with Manager, and manager was explaining the way to him, we were passing through each landmark and finally we reached to a board of "Kamla Hospital", as manager said that we need to come down from the main road where we will find the "Kamla Hospital" board, now we came down... after moving few miters we saw that there were two road, left and right... now again we had confusion, where the fuck we need to go man, first time is was laughing on my memory, yesterday only we walked on this path and today forgot... this time manager was also unable to explain the path to us, i said everyone to stay there and i am coming to guess the road, then i went few meters ahead of the road alone to observe guess and remember the road, i saw road in deep darkness this was the same as yesterday which i was noticed, then i came back and said everyone to come with me, Bittu was not physically fit, she was admitted in hostpital last month due to backbone pain, therefore we were more worried about the wrong roads because she was not comfortable to walk. After few meters we was a school i.e "Port More" secondary school... from there we were able to see the hotel, now we were OK and we felt gurantee to be alive for future. This walk was like second birth for us, because we were listeining the horrible very loud sounds. Finally we reached hotel, we said hotel staff to bring hot water, then we made two peg of RUM. We were very tired therefore slept soon.
I and Nidhi packed all the luggages and came to Pintu's room, they were still being ready there. Pintu called to the driver to leave us ISBT where we can get the BUS to Chandigarh, driver said 350 rupees for this, we said OK to him. we checkout the hotel, cleared all the dues and came down to the main road where driver was already waiting for us.
'500 rupees is the ticket for volvo bus each ' Driver said...
"How much you will take to leave us to Chandigarh" I said to him.
He said "2500 rupees , i will leave you chandigarh".
i was ok with the amount, and i said Pintu to be okay for this amount. Then instead of going ISBT we said Driver to take us Chandigarh directly. Pintu and Bittu had plan to visit few places in Chandigarh and i was not aware regarding this plan.i was again the victim of hill sickness, we were coming down to the plane surface from the hill and i was not able to hear anything because i was feeling like my ear is covered with something.
We stopped in one of the Punjabi restaurant for lunch there, i did not wanted to eat anything but everyone was hungry, we took lunch.
Now we reached to the "Rock Garden" Chandigarh, now the problem was to keep luggage, we gave money to driver, driver gave us his visiting card, we shake hands, shared mobile number to each other.
Now we took our luggage to the ticket counter, now we were planning that one of from us need to stay outside to care of the luggage. But everyone was saying to stay there outside and no body was ready to go inside, then i said to stay there and i am looking some place to keep the luggage safe, then i went to the main entrance gate of the garden and asked from the gate man, he said me to go the two wheeler parking there we can keep our luggage, i went and asked the parking man, he said me to come with luggage, then i came to everyone and took luggage to the parking area, till that time Nidhi & Bittu purchased the ticket it was 30 rupees per person. Then we entered inside the garden, it was a great scene, i never saw the garden like this before, garden was built using rocks, somebody said "This garden is made with garbage, no fresh material is been used for making anything in this garden", but if you will see the scene and the quality of materials you will never believe on these words. This garden is built by "Nek Chand", there are two artificial waterfall in this garden, 2 are doll gardens inside this, all the beautiful dolls are made with rocks, there are many designs of animals, birds and dolls are present and most common this is all are made with pieces of rocks.
We were running with the sort of time, therefore we decided to complete our journey and move into the another place which is a little far from here i.e "Sukhna Lake".
We took the auto rickshaw again and went railway station, then we took the train (Train name : Himalayan Queen) and came to Delhi, Sarai Rohilla railway station, we have booked the ola cab and came to Noida to Pintu's room, we stay there and left Noida early morning because i needed to go office today.
I have loaded all the luggage on the bike and tied it with bungee cord. We reached Gurgaon ( Ashok Vihar Phase 2, Gurgaon) till 8 AM morning, then i have been fresh, i was tired therefore thought to sleep, then 10 AM morning i thought to take leave today because i does not wanted to go office today. Then i took leave and spent whole day in home only.
Overall the Shimla experience was awesome, there is only one thing we need to keep in mind for all the trip i.e never depend on the Guide and Driver, they always try to get our money in all the forms, don't take any kind of package, book everything from yourself, tour yourself and do research on everything. If you will do research and dig the things then only you can enjoy the trip, therefore do not try to make easy your trip by buying package from any tour or travels, but in some cases we cannot tour by our self such as foreign tours or places of strangers, unknown languages etc... there we need to take the package to enjoy a reliable and comfortable tour.
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Tattapani is really a nice place to visit , i am requesting to all the tour lovers to visit at least once in their life.
We came back to Shimla from there, this time i did vomit, hill sickness is very frustrating sickness, we cannot enjoy...
Mall Road
Driver left us near the Mall road and shared some information to walk, i really wanted to go hotel to sleep because i was not feeling good, but everyone forced me to go and said "if you will walk you will feel good", i came out from car and started walking, once we reached to the peak of the hill, it was really a nice view, i really loved the scene and market of Shimla's mall road
We did lots of shopping there, one interesting thing happend with us, we went a shop which was about to close, Nidhi and Bittu was taking out the covere products, the sales man were putting the the display product for closing the shop but she tooks out to see, everyone was surperised... both girl were very excited to buy the bags... the carry bags were of very good quality, we bought many bags there... we were laughing after coming from the shop... i said "Shopkeeper must think that these people needs only carry bags, from where they came, there must carry bags are not available", don't know he was thinking like this or not but we were laughing a lot on this, really... we were taking out those products which was moved from the display place of the shop to close the shop...
Then we decided to take food there, we ate chicken items... the food items were very costly there but we did not cared and ate lots of chicken items. Then we started walking towards the hotel, instead of going via streight road we thought to go via shourtcut because yesterday only we came via that way to Mall road, we needed to come down right side of the main road towards the hotel. But i was worried about the wrong way if we take...! the same thing happend... we took a wrong right cut, we came little down to the hill... now everything was strange, we were trying to match the yesterday's scene from our head, i was trying to memorise, i came to the conclusion that we must into the wrong place, now we did not have the sufficient information about our hotel to explain someone, our hotel name is "Shantivan" but this was unknown kind of hotel, then Pintu jee called to the hotel manager, the manager explained the way to us but we were still unknown, then we saw a person there , we gave the phone to him and manager explained the way, then that man told us that your hotel is near "Port Mor" school, now we had a landmark. Now we again came up to the main road and started walking to the road, we were worried about the road and what happen if we again forget the road and manager stop picking our phone, there were no people sorroundings, this was completely deserted way, the strange very loud sounds of animal's or bird's was clearly audible, we were very very afraid, we were worried about the sound also... Bittu said that "Shimla is famous in horror TV Shows, all famous supernatural activities are almost comes from Shimla, when she said this we were in fear of life. Pintu Jee was continuously talking with Manager, and manager was explaining the way to him, we were passing through each landmark and finally we reached to a board of "Kamla Hospital", as manager said that we need to come down from the main road where we will find the "Kamla Hospital" board, now we came down... after moving few miters we saw that there were two road, left and right... now again we had confusion, where the fuck we need to go man, first time is was laughing on my memory, yesterday only we walked on this path and today forgot... this time manager was also unable to explain the path to us, i said everyone to stay there and i am coming to guess the road, then i went few meters ahead of the road alone to observe guess and remember the road, i saw road in deep darkness this was the same as yesterday which i was noticed, then i came back and said everyone to come with me, Bittu was not physically fit, she was admitted in hostpital last month due to backbone pain, therefore we were more worried about the wrong roads because she was not comfortable to walk. After few meters we was a school i.e "Port More" secondary school... from there we were able to see the hotel, now we were OK and we felt gurantee to be alive for future. This walk was like second birth for us, because we were listeining the horrible very loud sounds. Finally we reached hotel, we said hotel staff to bring hot water, then we made two peg of RUM. We were very tired therefore slept soon.
Chandigarh(Rock Garden)
We woke up almost 9 AM morning, we have been freshed up quickly, we had plan to hotel checkout and leave from Shimla to Chandigarh, and we had train from Chandigarh to Delhi today.I and Nidhi packed all the luggages and came to Pintu's room, they were still being ready there. Pintu called to the driver to leave us ISBT where we can get the BUS to Chandigarh, driver said 350 rupees for this, we said OK to him. we checkout the hotel, cleared all the dues and came down to the main road where driver was already waiting for us.
'500 rupees is the ticket for volvo bus each ' Driver said...
"How much you will take to leave us to Chandigarh" I said to him.
He said "2500 rupees , i will leave you chandigarh".
i was ok with the amount, and i said Pintu to be okay for this amount. Then instead of going ISBT we said Driver to take us Chandigarh directly. Pintu and Bittu had plan to visit few places in Chandigarh and i was not aware regarding this plan.i was again the victim of hill sickness, we were coming down to the plane surface from the hill and i was not able to hear anything because i was feeling like my ear is covered with something.
We stopped in one of the Punjabi restaurant for lunch there, i did not wanted to eat anything but everyone was hungry, we took lunch.
Now we reached to the "Rock Garden" Chandigarh, now the problem was to keep luggage, we gave money to driver, driver gave us his visiting card, we shake hands, shared mobile number to each other.
Now we took our luggage to the ticket counter, now we were planning that one of from us need to stay outside to care of the luggage. But everyone was saying to stay there outside and no body was ready to go inside, then i said to stay there and i am looking some place to keep the luggage safe, then i went to the main entrance gate of the garden and asked from the gate man, he said me to go the two wheeler parking there we can keep our luggage, i went and asked the parking man, he said me to come with luggage, then i came to everyone and took luggage to the parking area, till that time Nidhi & Bittu purchased the ticket it was 30 rupees per person. Then we entered inside the garden, it was a great scene, i never saw the garden like this before, garden was built using rocks, somebody said "This garden is made with garbage, no fresh material is been used for making anything in this garden", but if you will see the scene and the quality of materials you will never believe on these words. This garden is built by "Nek Chand", there are two artificial waterfall in this garden, 2 are doll gardens inside this, all the beautiful dolls are made with rocks, there are many designs of animals, birds and dolls are present and most common this is all are made with pieces of rocks.
We were running with the sort of time, therefore we decided to complete our journey and move into the another place which is a little far from here i.e "Sukhna Lake".
Chandigarh(Sukhna Lake)
We took auto rickshaw from Rock garden main road to Sukhna lake, i came here first time, my previous experience of lake was with "Damdama Lake" Gurgaon, which was very bad experience, now i was finding the answer of a big question i.e what kind of lake would it be, all lakes are almost same type and we have the same limited activities there, if it is like Damdama Lake then it is only the wasting of time there. During this question and answer session we finally reached the lake, we gave money to auto rickshaw driver, put down all the stuffs and started walking towards the lake, we saw the entrance of the lake was well maintained and cleaned, then we saw a big empty space before us, it was a great feeling to that environment, there is a proverb i.e "Better to see the place with your open eyes then listening thousands time from others", what do you think ? I had first time such experience of the great place to spend quality time with your love one or family. Sukna lake is really a good and big place among great weekend places. We spend almost 1 hour there, but this was a great quality one hour of my life. We were getting late to reach railway station, we had the train on 6:55 from Chandigarh railway station and it was almost 5 PM now, therefore we thought to move from there, we have captured multiple pictures there for the memories.We took the auto rickshaw again and went railway station, then we took the train (Train name : Himalayan Queen) and came to Delhi, Sarai Rohilla railway station, we have booked the ola cab and came to Noida to Pintu's room, we stay there and left Noida early morning because i needed to go office today.
I have loaded all the luggage on the bike and tied it with bungee cord. We reached Gurgaon ( Ashok Vihar Phase 2, Gurgaon) till 8 AM morning, then i have been fresh, i was tired therefore thought to sleep, then 10 AM morning i thought to take leave today because i does not wanted to go office today. Then i took leave and spent whole day in home only.
Overall the Shimla experience was awesome, there is only one thing we need to keep in mind for all the trip i.e never depend on the Guide and Driver, they always try to get our money in all the forms, don't take any kind of package, book everything from yourself, tour yourself and do research on everything. If you will do research and dig the things then only you can enjoy the trip, therefore do not try to make easy your trip by buying package from any tour or travels, but in some cases we cannot tour by our self such as foreign tours or places of strangers, unknown languages etc... there we need to take the package to enjoy a reliable and comfortable tour.
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