Delhi-Sarahan

It was a cold cold winter morning.. Getting up at 2am wasn't easy. Quickly i loaded the stuff in the car and after taking my parent's blessings, left for Manik's house. After stuffing the car further, we left at 4 am. Since we had a car we dint try to optimize the things we were carrying. In between 2 people we had more than 6bags, 2 sleeping bags, 2 quilts, a laptop and the obviously 2 camera bags..

As soon as we got out of Delhi mother nature presented us with our first obstacle.. We were greeted by dense fog with visibility not more than few 100 meters. I was driving.. And believe me it was not easy.. Cars and trucks popped out of no where in front of you.. Suddenly you realized that the road had turned and you were driving straight towards the divider.. Road was almost empty.. So speed was almost constant at 60.. Progress was painstakingly slow (although the good things was that the car was giving a very good average) .. Driving was boring.. Nothing interesting was playing on the radio and on top of that Manik covered himself with a shawl and went to sleep..

First stop was after Ambala where we refueled the car. From there on Manik started driving. My bad luck or his good luck, the fog cleared after few kms. Kya yaar.. I had been driving at 60 and Manik gets a clear highway and now fog.. Soon we hit the hills and reached Parwanoo by 9.30. Here we stopped for breakfast ..


in the hills the sky was now clear and it was pretty sunny..


we had a heavy breakfast of paranthas..



Then we started again with me at the wheel and Manik at the camera..


Road was ok till Shimla. Jazz is a very comfortable car so few potholes here and there dint trouble us.



After Shimla till Narkanda the road was pathetic. A few kms after crossing Kufri we saw a lot of people standing on the side of the road and clicking pics. We also stopped to see the "view". from that place you can see the whole valley which was covered with thick forests. people were getting excited seeing that.. i am not particularly found of such crowds and Manik captured that look perfectly..


After Narkanda road lovely.. As the dusk got nearer, it got colder. one place we saw something shining on the slope. we stopped to check it out.. this was our first sighting of the snow..



then we continued on, stoppped at Rampur for the usual photo..

as we went on it soon got dark and cold. but dint matter much in the car and finally we reached Sarahan. there we checked in to a guest house on the bus stop..

Total distance traveled: 551kms

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