The Perfect Road Trip - What an idea sir ji?

The Perfect Road Trip

 

Srinagar- My dreamy destination 

    A  road trip is a journey taken on a road. What matter is the journey, route and the ultimate destination.

What makes it a more joyful experience?
'Trip Companions and the Vehicle'
 The ultimate supporters to the trip.

   Right now, I am dreaming of visiting 'Gulmarg' as a destination of my road trip. It is situated in the lap of Srinagar (India). I have visited the place earlier too with my husband but my other family members are very much eager and excited to visit the same. They are
                                                                                          impatient to be our companion.

                                                                                         

I wonder :- Will the dream come true?

My dream planning is disclosing below :-

Destination :-        @ Gulmarg , Srinagar
Route:-                 Delhi >  Haryana > Punjab > Srinagar (Gulmarg)
Distance :-            446 x 2 = 892 kms
Companions :-      Father & Mother * Sister & Brother * Hubby & Biwi (me)

Car :-                   Renault duster ( Metallic woodland brown color)

A super duper & mind blowing car

Best time :-           March (Just to recall my first trip)

Situation :-
Six of us are eager to visit our Dream Destination Gulmarg via Road.

Experience Holders :-
Me and my husband has one visit experience to the destination and also great knowledge regarding the place. So, others can take risk. ;) We have taken some warm clothes, boots and medicines for the road trip. At last, all packing is de dana dan 'done.

About the Destination :-  
     Gulmarg is located in baramulla district of Jammu & kashmir. It is situated at an attitude of 2730 m above sea level. The best thing about this place is that it is surrounded by snow capped mountains & forested hills. This place is full of beautiful scenery which made this place popular as a shooting location for most of the Bollywood movies.

Gulmarg view

Journey , Route, Vehicle and The Companions : -

The route is full of enjoyment because of the companions. We all are feeling so excited and are playing antakshari for full enjoyment of the journey . My father is a bit shy so he is trying to escape from playing but all of the others are good singers of their own taste. We are also taking note of the outside view.

Renault duster at Delhi

    It is Delhi right now full of traffic and pollution. Weather is just ok not too good nor too bad. We are keeping the A/c on to avoid getting hot. And the antakshari is still on . My brother is trying to sing the latest songs and is really singing well . He wants to become a singer. Keep it up bro!
 Now, we are on our way to GT road. Really a long one but nice one. At last Renault is getting some chances to do wonders by it's speed. Traffic is not much but heavy trucks of transport are accompanying us through out the road. Tired of antakshari now, just giving some rest to our throat. The travel time is approximately 16 hrs. So we must keep some energy for later. It's been five hours and drowsiness has started  capturing my eyes now and suddenly due to a sudden break I am trying to open my eyelids to see what's happening? Looking outside the window with just half eyelids open, I am just able to see a lot of trees and greenery.

Greenery of Punjab 

 I guess, this is Punjab. Don't think I am a lazy girl . Just haven't slept the night before due to over excitement . Weather conditions are better over here. May be due to greenery. We decided to have some rest over here. Oh! I Have started having meal with my dear family. It is so nice to eat with family, sharing whatever we have ordered at the dhaba . It is 'tinku da dhaba' and we have ordered aloo parantha , kadhai paneer , mix veg , curd and Lassi. There is a different taste in the lassi of Punjab, of course it is quiet amazing.

Jammu & kashmir

Now, we are heading towards our next destination. Energy is refilled now and the recent destination is sleeping adda, 'ghagwal' in Jammu & kashmir . So nice to feel relaxed, after a day's journey. Weather is very nice over here. It is next morning now. Cool breeze coming inside through the window is making us stick to the blanket for some more time. I am Feeling so fresh now and enjoying sparrow's chirping in our room. Everybody is getting ready to attack on bathroom . Let's see who is going to take bath first. Ha ha ha! I know it is going to be my mom who else can dare to get up so early. Now everybody is ready to leave. We are again getting opportunity to sit in Renault duster having good mileage and style.We put on our warm clothes to cheat the cool breeze outside. Again our singing talents have started getting shown to the older members and we are so much happy receiving the applauds.So much fun it is!
 But our antakshari soon stops because sight seeing is what we are finding more important than singing. We are looking at the snow capped mountains far behind at turns, people wearing a different kind of clothes and houses built so differently than that of ours. We are just amazed.

Kashmiri People

Now we are on to outer gulmarg link and yeah! we are reaching our beautiful destination. As a destination it is like.. Dhara par swarg kahin hai toh yahin hai... yahin hai... yahin hai...
It is a once in a life time experience . Approx. two hours driving from Srinagar, it is really a great experience. Beautiful view of nature and snow clad mountains are giving heavenly feeling. Climbing up on the hills through round about roadways. It is so exciting and now we can't take further our new Renault duster. Hey Renault! Just stay safe now! we will share our experiences with you later on. We put on our boots and snow goggles to avoid blinding our eyes and started climbing the hilly area giggling, laughing and playing like kids at this hilly destination . So much fun walking in the snow. Unique experience, I just love this place. We are taking a lot of picture shots using our brand new Nikon camera. I need it at every destination to capture everything beautiful.

Gondola-Starting point

Throwing snow balls is the biggest fantasy over here . We have purchased our ticket to the first level of gondola and here we goes.. So much fun it is, riding in a box over snowy mountains. People are skiing and riding sledge. We have decided to do it later. We are now heading towards the next level of gondola ride. Photos are being taken along the ride.

Gondola- The real view 

 We reached the top level. Crisp cool mountain air, with a small bit of fog , clouds wandering here and there . All this is really enchanting our hearts. We clicked some more photos in different poses and are enjoying in every possible way. It is really a great experience just feeling on the top of the world. Now we are going back on first level to enjoy skiing. We again started riding on gondola but this time we are going downwards.

Going downwards

We can see other people enjoying the ride too. We are also enjoying the beauty of  tiny narrow lines drawn by the skiing champions. We are on first level now and also hired a pair for each one of us to enjoy skiing. Guide is guiding us how to do it and also about do's and don'ts. We all are now enjoying skiing on the top. It is really amazing. Some of us are falling in between due to lack of expertise. But still carrying on. It's been two hours and we all are tired enough to go back. And the time for gondola ride is also getting over. So we are back to the ground level and now seated inside our great journey supporter 'Renault', my lovely car.  It's been so nice trip and we are now taking some rest inside our car till we reach our hotel.

Memorable moments

After taking a night's rest at the hotel we are now going back to where we have started from, with a loads of memories flourishing inside our heart making it more memorable moment by moment.

zzz....z..... zz....zzz....z..... khrr.... khr...
Now snoring off...

 Oops! It is morning now.
Was really, a nice dreamy idea of  'the perfect road trip'. What an idea sir ji?