25th May 2019 Day 9
We woke up in Dalhousie today and the weather was pretty cold. We had late breakfast and then got out for sight seeing.
The traffic in Dalhousie is very dense and given that the city is situated in the mountains driving is very difficult. There is nothing to see in Dalhousie. It's mostly about the awesome weather in the town because of the altitude it is at. There happens to be a church which we couldn't go to as there was no parking nearby. We then went to Saptdhara which is nothing again ..however there was a small waterfall next to it with activities like zip-line and river crossing happening. We sat on the fall and had a tea while Reyansh dip his legs in the cold water and had some fun.
We walked back to car park. The number of sales people bothering tourists with offer to buy Kesar, Shilajit and herbs to grow hair is very high and its irritating to keep saying no to them. These vendors just won't give up and catch you near everywhere.
We were also offered with 5 items for 10000 Rs. Sale. This is the same sale which we had ended up buying a carpet, chingu and a few more items, 11 years ago in Shimla. Nothing has changed in 11 years :). We anyways declined to buy and started driving towards Khajjiar.
Khajjiar is a small town almost an hour's drive from Dalhousie. The drive is pretty tricky as it has narrow road in the mountains and the traffic makes it almost impossible to enjoy the route. We reached Khajjiar and it is called Mini Switzerland for a reason. There is a large meadow and a lake in the middle of huge trees and it looks and feels great. The lunch was at a non descript restaurant facing the lake and the service was very poor.
Reyansh wanted to ride a horse so Richa took him for a ride on a white horse named Shera. I sat near the lake where they had many 'adventure activities' going on. Zorbing slope gradient was pretty low as compared to what I have seen in Bangalore. The most funny thing was a paragliding kind of ride. A team of almost 10 people will run with a parachute and make the kid airborne for approximately 10-15 seconds. How far up the kid goes depends on the height and weight of the kid. While the kid comes down a couple of people will focus on catching her to ensure that she doesn't fall on the ground too badly. Some kids weren't even sitting properly on the seat and it was mockery of a gliding. It was very unsafe and not sure why parents were risking something like this with their kids.
After spending a good 3.5 hours near the lake we decided to drive towards Nurpur where we are staying for the night.
I write this from Nurpur which is our last night halt in Himachal. tomorrow we will drive to Amritsar and it's a pretty flat drive. We are back to planes now and the drive should become simpler. We have driven almost a 1000 kms in Himachal Pradesh and thank god for no major incident in the drive :)
Signing Off Day 9.
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