Wednesday, November 18, 2015

A trip to Manali Himanchal Pradesh in May!!

See I told you!... I was a big relief as we were rejoicing upon reaching Manali. All hardship has finally paid off. The weather was perfect for a summer vacation. The vacation to Kullu, Manali and Shimla in month of May was planned with the idea get away from the heat of Mumbai. We did all the research but were doubtful and were hoping for the best.


Everything worked as planned. We took an evening flight from Mumbai to Delhi so that we could travel through night from Delhi to Manali by taxi. We thought we would reach Manali sometime in the morning. But sadly, our calculations went wrong. We started at 12 midnight from Delhi and could touch Manali only by 3 pm!!  

We crossed Chandigarh in the morning, were we had a halt. It was extremely hot and after Mandi, as we started to ascend, the driver switched off the AC (though we hired an AC Car). We were told that it is a norm and we had to suffer. It was a difficult journey also because my six year old daughter has severe motion sickness, Till Kullu, the climate was very hot and we stated believing that it was a wrong decision to come to this place.


Surprisingly, when we reached near Manali the weather changed and to our delight, it became very pleasant and then chilly, exactly what we had wished for. When we reached “Manali Resorts”, beautiful place 5 kms before Manali town we were exultant. It was clouded and the air was cold. We quickly slipped into warm cloths.


Manali Resorts proved to be another terrific decision. The place had wonderful view of snow clad mountains of Dhauladhar Range (We did the booking in Mumbai) and wonderful cosy room with the view of Beas River seems to welcome us with its ripples.

Lovely Himanchali cherries and strawberries greeted us and we were all set to explore the Himanchal galore!!

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