Manali Trip: Day 2

In the morning we started towards Manali all over again, this time in the right direction though[:)].. It was a beautiful morning, the cool fresh air pumping into our lungs, we felt a bit energised.. Within a few hours, we were in the hilly region.. It was a great sight.. The rising sun in the mountains!! It felt like the start of a good trip now..

(As we opened our eyes and pulled the curtains, that's the scene we saw!!)

(The beautiful river looked so green and beautiful)

(The road, that covered the mountains like snakes, looked so fine)

(River Beas, that travelled alongside us..)

As the beautiful locations were taking our breath away, a few of us were thinking about the other bus.. Well, I was also thinking about my luggage, but after the first stop and that mouthwash without a proper brush later, I wasn't bothered about the wherabouts of the other bus which has already covered this beautiful place while its passengers were all sleeping.. We secretly were loving being lost and thanking our stars for letting us see the beauty as the sun was rising..

(The early morning brush on the road)

After seeing the beautiful landscape from my window and bored of playing all the games, I went on inside the crew cabin of the bus to see the most amazing and splendorous scenes.. As each and every turn in the mountains opened new avenues, I enjoyed looking ahead to what beauty would unfold before my eyes after each turn..

There was this double lane tunnel on the Ambala-Manali National Highway Number 21.. It was 2.8 to 3 km long (as told by my friends).. I later googled it to find this bit of information - On August 5 2006, Mr Virbhadra Singh, the then Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, inaugurated the 2,809 metre-long double lane tunnel near Aut on the Ambala-Manali National Highway 21..

(The Allain Duhangan Hydroelectric Project (ADHP) built on Allain and Duhangan tributaries of Beas river near Kullu and Manali )

(The Bridge where our bus was fined for lack of some papers and we stepped down to touch the river.. It was chilling cold water and a few did slip from the rock we were standing into the freezing cold water..)

(We getting in the river to touch the water as it was getting late for a dip in it..[:)])

By the time we made our way up, we were already getting late and were still quite away from our hotel.. As we set again, we were all tired and irritated.. All of us just wanted to just keep ourselves warm in our rooms and take a hot water shower!!