Mountain Trip

At the drop of the hat..I need vacation & I don’t leave any opportunity to plan one. Due to long weekend vacation coming our way owing to diwali an impromptu vacation to Kasauli was planned. A research from my traveler savvy friend & good old google prepared my itinerary. I booked Kalka shatabdi from Delhi which reaches Chandigarh in 3/12- 4hrs time. From there we hired a cab & went to our first destination i.e Pinjore garden in Parwanoo. The mughal garden was quite a dekko but night time is the best time to visit it. My kid had a good time climbing the tree & I too joined in the fun. We had our lunch inside Pinjore garden’s restaurant & headed to Timber trail. Timber Trail gives you a delightful experience of riding a cable car from Timber Trail resort at 3000ft above to Timber Trail height which is at 5000 ft above. The view was mesmerizing. Once we reached to Timber Trail heights we had a fun at amusement park there. Also a round of badminton refreshed us. Something you miss doing when you get caught in 9-12 job . From herein we drove to Kasauli & reached our hotel well before dark. Ros Common is hptdc hotel which is quite decent & gave you scenic view from small porch of your room. We had planned to relax on that evening & take it easy. We did required to put on our room heater as it gets chilled in the evening. Morning we had a breakfast in the garden table basking in the glorious sun rays & enjoying the mountain view from there. Also we happened to pick few pomegranate fruit from the tree in the garden. Theirs not much to see in Kasauli. It’s a laid back vacation destination where you bond with yourself & your family. Also you do things that you don’t get to do everyday in this marathon of life & that’s to RELAX. Before signing off from Kasauli we trekked our way to famous monkey point & paid our respect to hanuman mandir perched on the top of the mountain where you get the entire view of kasauli as well as Chandigarh. You need to be aware of monkey‘s though out there. We encountered a funny incident at Monkey point. While climbing down one of the big monkey came and grabbed our bag which had few food item as well as our return train ticket. My husband refused to leave the bag & kept convincing the monkey to let it go as if it’s a small baby he’s talking to. Thanks to the lady who owned a cafeteria around there, she made a noise to scare the monkey off. We had a hearty laugh at the end of it! The whole experience was enjoyable & the travel in shatabdi was altogether new experience which made the whole trip pleasurable.