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he headed out and started to
speak to some travel agents
to get Royal Enfield bikes but
for our fate the Weather was
not good and the company
policy was that they would
not give the bikes if the
weather was bad, But we got
a car booked to go directly
from Chandigarh to Tosh.
We started our journey
from Chandigarh and headed
towards Himachal
Pradesh, The road is
really nice and the people
are really friendly. Our
driver Bedi Ji was a quite chill
and friendly person playing
Punjabi songs on the road.
Once you reach the border
of Himachal and Punjab it is
like going to another country
where Punjab is full of
plains, Agricultural fields
whereas Himachal is full of
mountains and hills from the
border itself. As soon as you
enter Himachal, you start
to get the breeze, the view is
like never-ending mountains.
The total travel time from
Chandigarh to Tosh is 13
hrs so it was a long journey.
We stopped few times just to
enjoy the view .it was almost
evening we stopped for lunch
and had hot cup of tea with
it, it was starting to get cold
we again started, after driving
for some time we started to
get many rivers on the way,
I tell u I haven’t seen rivers
so clear and blue ever you
can just see the rocks below,
as it was evening we entered
a tunnel it was almost 2km
long, when we got out of the
tunnel we felt like we entered
a refrigerator, the temperature
suddenly dropped,
we were going higher and
higher, after sometime we
stopped for dinner somewhere
150kms before tosh.
Now it was our final stretch
to tosh, as it was almost 8:30
we could see stars which were
really clear, but the stars were
matching up with the lights
on the mountains, the view
was like endless mountains
on the sky. We reached hunter
or Kullu airport it’s almost
60km from here, there are
two diversions from here
the left one will take you to
Manali and right goes towards
the hippie villages. It
was almost 1:30 in the night
when we reached tosh, I tell
you I have never
felt this cold in
my life, when we
reached tosh we
passed many famous
places like
kasol and manikaran
but the road
to tosh is until
some extent only
you have to trek
1.5km to reach
tosh, we asked our
driver whether
we will get stay at
this time he told to
go to pinky didis
you’ll get everything,
when we
got down each of
us were wearing
more than 3 layers
of clothes, I had
forgotten to wear
shoes at that point,
when I stepped out
of the car it was
an electric shock
for my feet, you
could see snow
packs around you,
we went to tosh
and asked about pinky didis
they told it is the last place
on the village, we went and
got rooms for ourselves and
quickly got under the warm
blankets, the next day when
I woke up it was 4 degrees
and damn cold I just couldn’t
keep my feet on the ground I
wore 2 socks and slipper then
I was able to keep my feet
down, when coming out
of the room it was my
life’s best morning till date
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