Himalayas Archive
Manali- A hill-station that I have carefully avoided all my life, even when almost the entire of Delhi treats it like its weekend-getaway. (Or maybe, because it is so). Until it was totally unavoidable; Old Manali was …
Read Day 5 here. The good thing was, that the next morning we all had boarded the bus at 5:50am. We wanted to reach Manali at a decent time. On your way to and from …
Read Day 4 here. Next morning I was up at 7:40am and the dear roommate was almost ready for the day and was packing her luggage. We were to leave at 9:00 am. I quickly …
Read Day 3 here. The day plan had a Demul to Komik trek in agenda. Next day was the day for Safari from Demul to Komik. We were to assemble at the village’s meeting point …
Read Day 2 here. (The plan was to start from Tabo and visti Pin valley and stay at Demul village.) We all got up by 6:45am and I wished I could be served with the tea …
Read Day 1 here. We explored Dhankar and Tabo on this day. Next morning, we got up at 6:00am. It was bright, sunny and clear as compared to what we are used to in Delhi …
Our Spiti trip was planned to take place shortly (five days later, to be precise) after the Uttarkashi natural disaster in June 2013. Spiti lies in Himachal Pradesh, which too was hit, but majorly up …
Read Day 1 here. At around 5:45am, I woke up with start, thinking that I had slept past my morning-alarm. It was a silent, misty and cool morning, one of numerous Jibhi must be used …
It was still early June and Delhi was beginning to feel like a perpetual blast-furnace. Even by the meteorological department’s predictions (which are rarely true, at least here in India) monsoons were a good three …
