Kikar Lodge - A good break from city
Office arranged picnics are usually not very exciting for they tend to keep things which make sense to a large no of people and that sort of sometime take the spunk out. This happens when you grow large and you need to remain sensitive towards a varied pool of inspirations. Interestingly our group at Adobe India is still not very large and we get to choose where we want to go, at least at a group level and we chose ‘Kikar Lodge‘ - a welcome heritage property. After fixing thing through an old friend Manav (of Getaway Jungle Camp fame), we were all set to go. Some of us chose Train and I guess that came out to be a better decision.
Day 1 - Nov 11 2006
We started early morning, took Delhi-Kalka Shatabdi Express which starts at 7ish in the morning and drops you at Chd in about 4+ hours. These hours were well spent courtesy good seats, regular supply of snacks and aided by a large contingent of kids of a convent school who were going to Chandigarh for some sight-seeing excursion.
From Chandigarh, we took taxis (private Scorpio, Qualis) to head towards Ropar and then to this place called Kikar Lodge. Its about 100 KMs from Chandigarh and takes about 2 hours. This property is essentially a luxury resort (more…)
