Hellllllllllo!!!!!!!!Hola!!! Bonjour!!! Nay ho!! Mingalaba!!!Meharba!!!I know m a lazy blogger,please pardon me for that plssssss!!! hehe!!! I hope i can try and evince one of the best 80 hrs of my lyf which wre full of exaltation,frolic etc etc etc in my vacations which i feel are always ebullient to me.
23rd May 2009 Anno Dommini..........................................................
12:00 P.M
"Shanu its nt the tym to take a nap,WAkE up,its only 12 in the afternoon,do something productive,don't sleep for no reason" my mom passes this one liner everyday in a voice which is audible enough to wake me up from a nap which i find the most boring thing in my daily schedule,but the irony being its my favourite pastym in my vacations :)!!......m a different person,cant help lolzz,probably following existentialism..nyways moving on still being half awake,the Dilwale Dulahania mandolin tune was enough to wake me up and engorge my eyes so that i could see the name of "Ansh Pat" flashing on my phone................"Shanu,the hotel is done,pack your bags" he said,i was lyk i WHAT,was just waiting for this single call.....i was up like as if a shuttle was ready to be launched into space.Somethings are concomitant like aditya's call whenver i wake up and without giving him a chance to utter anything,in a euphoric voice i told him to pack his bagaage...last but not the least i surprised jammy about the same and asked him to enquire for the tickets for the late night bus,but we found out that the bus was booked till the 26th of May and to our knowledge that was a single A\C way of transport near to our destination,but we wanted to go anyhow..we dint wanted to miss the chance and before this excitement would have become evanescent,again the mandolin tune starts vibrating my phone and jammy(aashish) says "there's an A/C bus at 4 p.m i.s.t and i have asked aditya to get four tickets...quickly pack your bags..."i looked at the clock it was already 1:45 P.M and my bags were not ready...It was tym to speed up if i had to take the bus and somehow i managed to do that,i had my bags ready within tym and we ol decided to meet at aditya's place to move on to the bus terminal....whoaaaaa!!!! i was winking my eyes to everyone of dem and the quadcore wre grinning together because we follow the policy of exactitude... :) hehe!! We wre finally on our way to a town which is a duvet of peace,pleasure and happiness............"Mussoorie".......and the bon voyage began with the wondeful bus journey in the ambience of "Incredible India"
24th May 2009 A.D
12:10 A.M
Delhi kashmiri gate I.S.BT...."Siphon the py****" wre the lines flashing in my mind from "The Three mistakes of my lyf" nd the coachman said that the stop will be for 10 minutes only,so we quickly went to the restrooms and took some eatbles from the terminal to assauge and boarded the once coach again..nd as d delhi welcome metro station passed away,the word called sleep had started taking the control of my mind and my eyelids had to shut to complement that :).....
1:45 A.M
I woke up and looked at my watch,the time was 1:45 A.M ,i peeped through the glass of the window seat and i could see the town of Muzzafarnagar,the midway was only at a distance of half and hour or so,meanwhile aditya was also awake and we started talking about everything that was engorging our brain nerves to think on and as time went on through the idyllic nature,we finally reached Dehradun!!!!.....
Mussoorie being only 30kms from dehradun,we decided to travel without taking a break so that we could be well within time up the hill to avoid the sunday traffic in the later hours of the day,so we booked a taxi nd wre off to the beautiful landscapes and the amazing eternal visage of nature had taken control our heart,minds and soul.....We reached Mussorie and checked into the hotel,i glanced at my watch nd phewwww it had been 14hrs since we had left Jaipur,we were tired and hungry as well so without wasting much time we got ready and went fr breakfast on the mall road.The food of the the Great Indian Plains as it is known had to be delicious and after having a king size breakfast we went back to our room and.........khrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! :) :)
After two hrs of sleep we wre refreshed and dis ws the tym to start wid another beautiful chapter of an amazing book called LIFE and to experience things which were to come our way.We were al set to travel the city on foot so that we could explore more and more and feel the ebullient ambience of this wondeful town so we went on to visit company park.... With the packets of wai wai's in our bag and the duvet of clouds above our heads,we were feeling one of the best hours of her life and to add to our excitement it started raining and the temperature dropped off suddenly to an extent that we started to shiver like anything and we had to make a stopover at every small tea shop after 5 minutes or so in order to warm ourselves up and by the time we returned back on the mall road the rain had stopped and the cool blue breeze was kissing Mussoorie all over...taking some eatbles we went back to the hotel but then i dint want to miss the so called 'Suhana Mausam' out dre and me and aditya went off to a beautiful spot which was the most amazing point we found in mussoorie on the camel back road,it was a peaceful and a quiet place from where we could see the beautiful Himalyan Ranges and we named it as "Maggie Point" beacause we use to eat maggi dre evrytym we went .The cool blue breeze was kissing Mussorie all over and with hands folded and feeling the lively breeze,lines of John Keats were flashing in mind "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"...was feeling as if it is a phantasm,but then i was missing someone a lot in this ambience,i looked at my phone again...................Only Airtel was there :) :)................
7:00 P.M
Walking down the lanes of this beautiful city we were back on the mall road and were strolling in the market and witnessing the shopping places there,stopping by on the railings on the other side of the road we could see the enticing city of Dehradun and we reached Kulri where we took our dinner with the company of the Indian Premier League final.."Aaj toh Royal Challengers hi jeetenge"...was tryin to rodomontade as if i knew the results well before ... ;).....walking talking and with the exercise of shimmying ;)..we wre back to our hotel at around 10:30 P.M.........
The hotels on the hillstation are architectured magnificently and gave a statuesque look on the mountain....we wre into our bermudas and sitting on the swings one the terrace we were chit chatting about everything we felt like from ur school times till now grinning on funny things,glancing on the girls sitting next to us on the other swing.....everything was fun.....!! we were back to our rooms late night....whoaa!!! ...Alas!! deccan chargers won...i was proved wrong but that had to be a part of this excitement as well..lolz...
25th May 2009.........
When i opened my eyes aditya was back from the maggie point...it ws already 7 in the morning and anshuman and aashish were still asleep,we had to be out of the hotel by 9 as we had one full day and night to feel this city as much as we could...Maggie at the Maggie point was our companion with the mountains till we waited for aashish and anshuman as they were still in the hotel and as soon as they came we decided to trek off to the Gunhill on foot.We took our breakfast over dere and after spending some time at that resplendent spot..we took a cable ride back to kulri from where we had to move to on to Lal Tibba and Lantour....the highest points in Mussoorie at 8500 feet above sea level....walking down the streets and valleys in mussorie and crossing the mall road and kulri market...we reached Mr Ruskin Bond's house after two hours on foot but unfortnately we could not find him there at that position of the hands of the clock .....Lal Tibba and Lantour was another half and hour from there so after trying our hands and foots on trekking in the way...we reached Lantour Cantt one of the oldest army cantt of British India and with a splendid language school where i could find many foreign nationals learning Hindi and Urdu and achieving fluency at it..one such person was Shane whom i met was an american national though ,but was learning hindi cus he wanted to spend the rest of his life in India...amazing isnt it!!!
......LAL TIBBA.............we were there finally after hours of walk and it was truly amazing to be 8500 feet..we could se our maggi point from the binoculars and realized we really came a long way from the place we started dis morning!!Viewing the Himalyan Peaks and coniferous forest belt was alluring...!!!!..we now were on our way back to the mall road shopping in the way some attires and sharing the amazing experiences of our journey.......
8:00 A.M
We were extremely tired after a full action of exalting throughout the day!!!Wowww!!! amazing experience...we now went to take our dinner and enjoy and mesmerize the last night in this town......one of the best dinner's i had ever had....we at like anything....with orange slushes and trying on different ice creams in 8 degrees made our evening really enjoyable...the chit chat sessions again started and we were back to the swings of our hotel to start with a never ending confabultion again....but time and tide waits for none.it was already 12 in the nite and we had to be back to our rooms .......Playing Cards wre on again bt since i have this habit of falling asleep without knowing wen sleeps comes to me....someone knows this very well... :) :)...
26th May
i opened my eye lids in the morning and we quickly got ready as we had to catch the 4 P.M bus from dehradun back to our home that day.......we reached dehradun at around 12 and after collecting our tickets we decided to spend some time in the Buddha Temple which looked as if we were in Tibet......we really had a good tym in Dehardun as welll....
The time had come when we were to bid goodbye to this city and boarded our bus with a promise to visit here sometym again in life...........
27th May
0800 Hrs
Handshaking and hugs began as we finally reached our Pink City.......One of the best hours of my life with three great people whom am lucky to have with me......!!!!!!!!!
With a promise of writing better and soon....this is Shantanu Consul ....Signing off.......!!! :) :)
