My trip to Auli
First time I am trying to blog about my vacation.
Though I have the habit of writing the dairy when I go on a vacation, I
never converted them digitally.
This is my first attempt to narrate my trip experience. As I said in my
previous blog, I am going to Uttaranchal for skiing.
My whole trip experience will be covered in my several blogs ( I will
write as n when I get time )
I will also upload my photos and provide the link.
Day 25th Jan 2006, Time 8 pm IST
It is real. I am going to Auli for skiing. No last minute
changes/obstacle in my plan.
I am checking my packing list again and again to make sure that I
haven't missed any item to pack in my Rucksack. My training in packing
the Rucksack in my NIM helped me fitting all the items required in my
50 litres backpack. It included
High Altitute Sleeping bag
My SLR camera (Nikon N80 with tamaron 28-200 lens)
Thermals
Binoculars, Music player, Novel, clothes, medicines etc
I met Saurabh Mishra, Pramod Batni, Prakash Jalan at Yeshwanthpur
Railway station.
We boarded 11.30 pm train to Delhi (Sampark Kranthi express). As usual
as soon as the reservation chart was put up, I quickly scanned to see
whos who in our train. (No points in guessing that I was looking at F18
- F25 :-) ) But I didn't have too much luck this time.
It is 38 hours journey from Bangalore to Delhi in Sampark Kranthi
express. We spent most of the travel time in playing Uno, listening to
music and reading. We reached Delhi (H Nizamuddin Railway station) on
27th jan at around 2 pm.
Delhi
We were in Delhi for about 6 hours. This is not the first time I have
visited Delhi. Somehow I am jealous of this place and people working in
Delhi. It is so close so many mountains. People working in Delhi can do
a overnite journey to reach a lot of these mountains. I really wish all
these mountains were near to Bangalore.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Delhi is Chole
Bathure. This place is famous for Chole Bathure. Even before we reached
Delhi, I had made up my mind that I will have Chole bathure for my
lunch. :-) As soon as we got out of railway station, we searched for a
good,decent place to eat chole bathure. But I couldn't find any. So we
skipped our lunch.
We took an auto to Saurabh's sisters place. I must appreciate Saurabh's
bargaining skills. He bargained with auto driver to take all 4 of
us in 1 auto with all those luggage. Saurabh's sisters place was quite
near to railway station. After a quick refresh, we (except saurabh)
went out to have a walk and do some last minute shopping in New
Friend's colony shopping complex.
First thing we were looking in shopping complex was a good place to
eat. All of us were damn hungry.
We found a place which was serving Hot Chole bathure. Now it was time
for our lunch break.
Then we went around the complex did buy few warm clothes. I bought a
sweater.We came back to house by 7 pm.
Before leaving Saurabh's sis place we met with one of my ex-colleague
Dheeraj who now works from a Delhi based company Solidcore.
We left saurabh's place by 8 pm. We took a bus to Kashmiri gate ISBT
(Inter State Bus Terminal).
We had our dinner in dhaba within ISBT and took a bus to Rishikesh.
Rishikesh is about 6 hours journey
The plan is to reach Rishikesh by 3 in the morning and take a bus first
bus (which is at 3.30 am ) to Joshimat
I will write about my journey to Joshimat and Auli in my next blog.
Posted at
10:38PM Feb 06, 2006
by madhu in travel |