Rohtang Pass........

Day 3  Calamity and Adversity


We woke up at 3.00 AM. Driver picked up us at 4:00 AM and we started our journey to Rohtang Pass from Naggar. On the way, we collected the warm and trekking cloth. It felt that we will be too early to reach there. 
Here we go...We found that the way was jammed with travellers, explorers and "Huge Traffic" than any metro city. Vehicles were moving slowly. It looked like calamity on mountain.
I got off the car and strode to Gulaba, soaked myself in green natural beauty of eastern Pir Panjal range and drenched in small natural water sources.

 It took around 4 hours to reach Gulaba, the check post for Rohtang.  Through snaky curves, we were reaching Rohtang and we can see glaciers through passing clouds. We can imagine "White" glaciers but here we were looking at "Grey" glaciers. Our excitement to reach there got decelerated . We reached around 9AM at Rohtang. We have polluted the one we love.
In search of peace and to run away from Metro life to Mountains, we have polluted and overcrowded the mountains like metro cities, specially on weekends.



Grey Glaciers


We spent our leisure time in overcrowded Rohtang pass, which shrinks to small glacier due to global warming. One can see it in real sense.

Rohtang Pass

We left around 11:00 AM to reach Manali on time to catch our return bus. On the way we have seen the origin of Vyas River, a small temple and Kund.




Vyas Temple- Origin of Vyas River



We had taken a halt to serve our voracious stomach with food. The place was awesome with cold breeze of mountain and flying Baudhhik Prayer's Flags.
 

Home in Solitude

 

Descending was terrible experience than ascending. Vehicles got stuck for 5hours in congested traffic of Himalaya.

Pic Courtesy: Google

We finally reached Manali at 5:00 PM to catch the return bus to Delhi at 5:30 PM. We were just on time. We enjoyed speciality of Manali at Bus stop, Cherry, Apple and Maggie :)


       


We are always mesmerized with Himalayan beauty.

But our journey is memorable when surroundings are nice and keeping surroundings in order is a "Journey of Life". It will not only make us happy but generations too.