Returning to Chandigarh, trip is ending, should we be sad ?

Time to wind down our trip.

 

 

The last day setting sun threw up some lovely images and soon we were mesmerized by the play of light on the mountain faces. Our home stay was located 16 km from Dalhousie, it is a lovely property in location, views are beautiful, no wi- fi though ( in the works ) Vegetarian food is very good, Non Veg not so, coats approx. Rs 4000 for 2 people per day. ( ph no on request)

 

 

 

Evening we sat outside and admired nature and chit chatted among our self.

 

We are done with Dalhousie or so we think following day we start back for Chandigarh,

We start out at 1000 hours, we would only need five hours on the road or so we presumed.

As we stepped out we decided to head out to Panchpulla waterfall before we start back for Chandigarh,

 

We were on our way Google did show us a way which seemed too risqué and we asked the locals, and were redirected to where panchpulla really is located.

 It would be another 10 – 14 km detour and that would be another additional hour or so.

Via Dalhousie town towards Chamba we went and from Gandhi Chowk one takes a right, go downhill  and reach Panchpulls waterfall. ( if one goes uphill here one reaches Kalatop.

  It was a Quant waterfall, small waterfall but with lovely ambiance, loads to shop for the shopaholics,   as we settleled into a hot Americano on the face of the mountainside,

 

the café had quiet a few stones with artists inspirations written on them.

 

 

followed that up with meeting a old man who was selling Ayurvedic herbs, we had a long chat with him, and bought some herbs from him, would be curious to see how it actually effects and helps. It is for diabetics, original Shilajit at Rs 200/ounce and Keshar for Rs1000 for 2 ounce

( test of Purity for Keshar is- it should mix completely with water and it smells strongly

 

 

We made a few images to remember our trip here, we would be starting back towards home here on.

I was meeting my friend Ravi Shankar after 30 years since we passed out from school ( same batch, different schools)  and it did not feel like we had been away at all, and how time has flown, here he is with his daughter who is an dentist already in the years that we had lost touch.

 

 

We were finally on our way by 1200 hours and we expected a ETA of 1800 hours to reach Chandigarh.  The drive was smooth and we made good speed, and we were at our hotel by 1730 hours, One of my biker friend Sanjay Bali who lives in Chandigarh we planned to meet up with and he was on time by 2030 hours, (he is an Ex-Airforce pilot), Good habits die hard I say,   we went out for dinner, this was my first visit to Chandigarh and we decided to see some of the town and explore some sights. It was a fun time we had.

The city is well planned and build in a grid format, very easy to navigate and very able street signs to facilitate navigating around the city.

 

 

Lots of food followed, some had  burger  some one chinese –noodle and chilli chicken and hot and sour soup    and kulfi later we drove to the lake side and spend 10 minutes by the lake side too, Finally we were back to the hotel by 1130 hours after Checking out Sanjay's bike collection and requested him to make his 2300cc, Rocket available for us to try it out.

 

 

 

Riding the Rocket , 2300 cc Motorcycle is story for another day...

 

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