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travel in beautiful mountain of manali

It all started with jiji my friend planning to take vacation from his hectic job in marketing.He knowing my nature ,invited me to  join.I was not the one to turn down the opportunity.It took whole month for jijimon and khan to plan our travelling trip to manali......i could have done that in one day. (hehehe just pack the bag and go)

     Two tickets were ready for me and my wife ,we were going in volvo.The stage was set to leave delhi.The morning we had to leave for manali ,meenu became excited to travel with us and all three of us were ready to salute manali mountains.We had to take bus from chandralok building in CP, we were all on time.Jjimon had come with his sister,khan with vinod,dilip with his wife and anoop with his family....in all we were a group of eleven ready to travel the Manali hills.The bus was late and it was getting dark there.Simultaneously three buses came there and it was a scene of chaos.Nobody knew which bus to get into,as no staff person was there to guide the passengers.

snow capped mountains

       Everybody was worried what to do except me becoz i had  no ticket.....it was like you don't worry about exam if you have not read.My ticket had been hijacked by my twinkle eyed sis...boo...boo.Both of them got the seat but i was standing alone in the bus.The conductor asked me to pay for the ticket which i joyfully did but when asked about my seat ...he pointed towards the seat along side the driver.My ordeal had started.....help me god.

view of mountains at Manali

       My whole journey to Manali was jeopardised by the fact that i could not sleep as the driver had ordered me not to,because he too would feel sleepy.The fact that this single seat had to be lifted each time someone went out of bus didn't help either.I could not sleep the whole night as the driver kept staring me ,as if he would eat me if i did.

At our hotel conifer

skiing at mountain top by experts

       At last we reached Manali at around 12 pm and Manali welcomed us with a drizzle.We went out to search for a hotel that was best for us.Khan and Jiji went out to search but didn't come back for a long time.They had gone too far to search for hotel.It was purely our luck that we were alive till they came back as their search was  seemed, unending.It was very cold up inthe mountains and we were travelling on foot to search hotel.

skiing at it's best....world champions

Fun loving group of travellers

       Finally we did get to enter our hotel conifer and we got a fairly reasonable deal.It was at a nice place as balcony view was breath taking.

rappling for fun at manali treks
           

Next morning we were up again to head towards snow capped mountains. It was very exciting to get ready for skiing at mountains. As the taxi travelled towards the mountain top we were told to rent a costume for cold weather. We hired the attire at the local shop there. It made me look like a bear. It was making my appearance puffier enhancing my already inflated belly.

We reached the hill top and scores of taxies were parked there. Driver halted his taxi and told us to hire horses for our journey ahead. We jumped onto our horses and our fun filled journey marched ahead. Horses were going haywire and stumbling upon the boulders present on the track.

Jiji’s horse was taking his own path and Biji horse was slipping too much. We laughed a lot at that time and proceeded towards the snow filled mountains.

After we reached the snow covered hills we were ready to ski.

The skiing path was not very long but it served our purpose. We skied for two hours falling, laughing and entire episode ended with all of us throwing snow balls on each other.

We were tired and hungry so we sat down to have maggi (that was the only thing available at that point).We had to wait for quite some time for our turn to come for our maggi. We came back to our hotel after a great session of skiing.

Next day was our last day and all our, which we started by going to river bank. We posed for some photos there and then someone came with rappelling gear. We were ready for rappelling over the river.

The sports club at Manali river bank where we had our lunch and tried our hand at lawn tennis. The tennis ball was never found after that.

We completed our travel by going to local shopping complex. Jiji was busy shopping but we had no time to waste as our buses would leave for Delhi in the evening. We forced him out of the shops to reach bus stop on time.

We boarded the bus towards Delhi but I was still standing in the bus without ticket.

Watch video of Manali  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oScJ3qVUlBI&feature=fvsr

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