We see it live!

Day 3 was one of revelations! We were scheduled to return to delhi by the 3.30 bus. We woke up to a light drizzle seen through the large hotel room window. AB and CV had aggravated their "snow glare", Poor AB could only cry and not see. As we still wondered what to do with our plan of revisiting Kothi, our guide Kaku suggested that there was a great possibility of seeing falling snow on the heights. Who on earth would want to miss the opportunity!! Me , AS and NR set out as the rain lashed on our winterwear. As we climbed up the hill, it got increasingly clear that the mountains on the other side of the Beas had rounds of fresh snow, we waited with fingers crossed. Kaku reaffirmed that we were lucky to see a snowfall in the onset of summer. As we drove up, the cold water droplets gradually transformed themselves into snow flakes. Hands stretched out, eyes wide apart, dressed in fur overalls, it was almost a dream come true.

A magnificent Greentop house right up there in Kothi!

It was carnival time up the hill as tourists flocked to see the phenomena. "That's as much of it as you can have" propounded the wise Kaku. Reason, one might get lost in the beauty of falling snow on the heights only to soon realize that he has lost contact with the ground. This happens when the snow quickly covers the track rendering vehicular movement impossible. So , a 15 minute time window at Kothi was all that we had to enjoy the mother nature at its altruist best. The snaps would be part of this blog soon,

Here they are! as I promised!



but you have to be there to feel the magic. It is not convertible to speech! As we descended, we could see the towering hills all partially covered with clouds. and at times, could see the clouds from inside the clouds! That was some fun at 7000 Ft.

we decided to walk some distance on the return as we could not have enough of the paradise that we were in the for the 3 days. It was about 12 in the noon then, we quickly rushed to check out of the hotel. How dearly did AB and CV miss the fall, how lucky were we!!

on lunch we discovered and establish that Chandratal was the best restaurant in town. The future visitors to Manali may please record this in their permanent memories! We still had another 2 hours to observe the sceneries. This time we set out on the opposite side of Kothi, towards Nagar. The road that went all the way to Kullu was decked up on either side by Resorts. We saw the mustard plantations in the valley to the right! Many of the Yash Chopra romantic flicks could have been filmed here, I thought. After half and hour of joyride, we returned back to the Mall from where we went up to the bus stand to catch the bus.

The return to Delhi was one terror ride as the driver was hell bent on shaving a clean 2.5 hrs of the onward travel time. We kept having nightmares in full consciousness all throughout the descent from the hills. But thankfully, there was nothing untoward that could spoil the shear joy that we had for the 2.5 days. We woke up from the "DREAM" at ISBT at 5.05 am sharp.