Saturday 23 December 2017

Himachal Pradesh - Abode of snow - Day1 n 2

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Another year, another trip and another trip report. This year we decided to visit Himachal Pradesh. We had to play in snow and witness snowfall (the latter one didn’t came true). As this was our very first visit to high altitude region and that too during snowfall season, I have decided to visit only Shimla and Manali and that too without any rush. I had read on Indiamike that during and after snowfall, it is difficult to travel in this part of India. So, I have kept additional day at Shimla as well as at Manali. Dates were finalized – Saturday, January 09, 2016 to Thursday, January 21, 2016. I booked train tickets from Mumbai to Kalka and Chandigarh to Mumbai. We also wanted to travel in toy train so booked Kalka-Shimla train tickets.








Himachal Pradesh - Abode of snow - Day1

We started from Bandra Terminus in Paschim Express at 1.35 pm.

Himachal Pradesh - Abode of snow - Day2


We reached Kalka at 4.00 pm and immediately felt that temperature is much lower compared to where we have come from. We walked towards our stay Hotel The Lotus which is around 500 mtr away from Kalka railway station. I have booked this hotel on goibibo website for Rs. 800 and will recommend for your stay in Kalka.

Freshened up, rested for an hour or so and went out of the hotel. We strolled in the local market and bought muffler and hand gloves and then were looking out for a place for dinner. I will recommend eating butter chicken with butter rotis in Punjabi Dhaba (Pic below). It is shabby looking local restaurant but we went ahead and ate yummy butter chicken. We then went back to our hotel.

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