An absolute homage to every worker in Himachal Pradesh making sure everyone is safe there through and through
There is this innate feeling in every city dweller to be more and more closer in touch with the nature than concrete. Be it the mountains, the woods or the beaches. With all sorts of pollution increasing in the city, we seek for that escape that only nature can provide us with! oh and people who arrange it for us!
I’m talking about the valleys of Himachal, that are mostly untouched and are the utopian examples of a getaway your soul has been screaming for.. the extent of which is still quite unexplored.
We explored the Miyar Valley, leaving the Chenab aside for a while and spent the understanding how houses are constructed and on top of different hills, valleys and plateaus of Himachal. If you have a car/bike of your own, you have incredible freedom to roam around in the nearby villages and click picturesque moments of the sunset like never before.
The third day was received with a huge blow when we realised that the melting glaciers known as Pagal Nallahs have taken over the road towards Tindi, Pangi Valley making us wait for two entire days tackling landslides of all sorts.
We reached one of the most deadliest pagal nallahs which took us around two hours to cross. The government sponsored JCB machines were at work to clear the roads with the help of the expertise of the locals.
The next nallah we reached had the road being gushed out with the heavy force of water and we got stuck in the mountain range of Tindi.
What’s important here is to understand that the authorities responsible, work with the locals living in villages nearby since they are the ones who are better at understanding the weather. We city travellers did as much as we could to help and found nearby abandoned houses to spend the night at covered from the cold. It took exactly four hours for the base of the road to be built which immediately was drowned when the water colour changed to brown, indicating the flow of mud/landslide.
It took an entire evening to do half of the job, which was then continued the morning there after. The night was used by everyone present around to rest and get energised for the next day. In the meanwhile, the bikers in our group went to visit a village nearby , Salgaraon here we had immense discussions with the locals of their livelihood.
This is what off beat travelling comprises of, the most difficult situation also gave us a chance to interact with the locals which made us learn more about Himachal, in a way no tourists would do.
We made it out of these two places without a scratch and given the stories we have heard around the 930 roads blocked in Himachal, we feel extremely lucky.
We made our way to Killer, through Tindi and then visited the second highest civilian post office in the world. Our group had done the First highest one at Hikkim last year, but we also give importance to the one that came second. and it enlightened the face of the post master.
We were set to explore the next part of the valley which was this road named Ishtiyaaari in Jammu which is called the deadliest road on earth. With no two vehicles passing through this road at once, the road is accessible only through the above mentioned route and the entire journey feels like hell just to get a glimpse of heaven
Here are two videos of our expedition that is a visual treat in itself
