Allegories of my life

Before leaving from Kuppa I had a well culture learning session with a woman whose better half was posted in HP in JP Hydro Power Project. She told me about how the Panchali System is still practiced in the village of Kinnaur just like it used to be at the time of Mahabharata. I was firmly convinced and got pleasure from old tales of our previous ancient times. The not so smooth road to Kinnaur, the mountains cut out to make way Today's goal was to arrive at Nako but not before a swift halt at Reckong peo. We left at 7 AM and found that the road not very hazardous as the road to Sangla and Chitkul was. Our key intend to visit Rekongpeo was to do a bit of shopping and as Peo is the chief town of the district and one can get bountiful selections in local handcrafted shawls with utmost quality. The market was spread at a long stretch and had copious shops for everything. One can buy dry fruits mainly chilgoza/neoza, almond, dry apricot, and Kinnauri kidney bean which are c...

We on the 8 th June woke up at 6:35 AM and got ready for the super long day jaunt but the cab driver got shoddily late so after a wee bit of waiting we left at around 9:00 AM bid my uncle good bye. So we happened to cross Jeori again and made sure to fuel up the car's tank full as the drive was going to be staggeringly stretched. The weather was not cool enough as we thought it to be. As we went through further more there started some humongous mountains all parched and looked all a stone’s throw away. Also some snow clad mountains at the back of these gigantic mountains. We crossed Bhabha, Nathpa, Wangtu, Tapari and halted at Karcham where we came to know that the road was confoundedly under grave repairs , we were asked to detour the road from NH22 through some uphill village named Urni  as the construction would take forever (I heard, it’s not going to get over till a year). OK. So there started some serious adventure of detouring thus I felt like a lost ball in the high we...

A long awaited Kinnaur-Spiti trip was due for a long time ever since I bought Outlook Traveler’s guide for Himachal Pradesh. When I first bought it without more ado I had a bizarre aspiration to travel entire Himachal before resting in peace. I keep bragging this to all the people who would come up and ask me as why did I acquire that hardback. Thus I had this superb opportunity of tripping to hills this month with my mother, was time to explore some new places of which I’ve heard from few associates and comprehended about on web, travel magazines and videos, etc. I got myself into the scheduling and execution of the trip as I had to persuade that I could take my mother all by myself, some of my cousins were keen to join too but backed off before the beginning of the adventure because of their inevitable obligations. So I did a painstaking study about the place, lodging and routes. The itinerary was organized a week back and I kept a check on it regularly as I didn’t want to let ...