After a long and tiring hours surfing the net for finding a perfect destination for our next summer vacation, constant pressure from my son (Papa summer vacation par kahan jayenge…) and my better half, I finally decided to visit Aruba. Probably never heard off…but it’s presence can be felt in a famous Beach Boys song “Kokomo” starting line. Basically its a tiny island with native population of around 100K, on the north coast of Venezuela. Its administered by Holland and is a Dutch colony. It can simply be described as one of the most different and amazing islands of Caribbean’s (West Indies). Trademark Divi Trees.
Giving to her sound for sound! -William Wordsworth
“Kukru” an obscure corner of Satpuda at the border of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra is true reflection of the above words of William Wordsworth. Seventy five Kms from district head quarter of Betul in MP small forest bungalow stands at a cliff 3500 Ft above sea level, overlooking rampart after rampart of Satpuda mountains, welcomes you in eternal tranquility and peace.
Krishna said in Bhagavat-Gita: “Amongst rivers I am Ganges” and all over the world you will hardly find a river more worshiped and more sacred than Ganges.
In the Morning we checked out from Hotel Shivalik – Dharali & left for Gangotri at 6.00 AM.
I have visited Dehradun a lot of times and mostly by train only. As the road condition (Ghaziabad, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Roorkee) is not very good and traffic is very high, the road travel is always very exhausting.
This time, me and 1 of my friends, Nishant planned to go for a 1 night trip to Dehradun, travelling by own vehicle. But we decided not to travel via Meerut, Muzaffarnagar etc. Instead we decided to go via Baraut, Shamli, Sahranpur.
13.05.2010, Delhi to Dehradun , Driver: Nishant (Solo), Accompanying: Myself
We started our trip at 6.30 am from my Home in Bhajanpura, which is very close to Loni More. Soon, we were out of Delhi, heading towards Baghpat. Road was OK and traffic was very minimal. After Baghpat, the traffic started increasing. This was a single road only and a lot of villages are there on both side of Road, so we were carefull in driving. Around 7.45 we reached Baraut. Normally at baraut, there is lot of traffic jam and you need some 15 minutes to cross this very small stretch of some half a KM. But we were fortunate enough that road was clear and crossed Baraut in 2 minutes.
After Baraut, the journey became very pleasant, as day was not very hot. On both sides of Road, lot of mango trees, full of Mangoes were there. Traffic was very minimal and we were running on a speed of 90 km/hr easily.
Around 9 we reached Shamli and around 10 we reached Saharanpur. After crossing Saharanpur, we took a halt at a Dhaba and had our breakfast. Read the rest of this entry →
