Advantages: Best place for first Himalayan winter snow, Excellent Snow Sports, Brilliant Scenic Beauty, Affordable Hotels, Well Connected Disadvantages: Lack of enough tourist information, Exhorbitantly priced in Summers at least for Indians
...that we would zoom towards Manali - The Valley of Gods. Manali is 400 kms from Chandigarh 650 kms from Delhi - the Capital City of India. We did this entire way and back over three nights at a resort in a petite car called Santro, from Hyundai stable. The hotel, Whispering Rocks, was kind enough to throw in the fourth night for free but for a call from the Office. The thought that "one needs to earn for future such getaways", got us back, but not ... ...My previous visit to Manali was around 6 years back and it was predominantly to test the waters for a possible entry in the Himalayan Motocross. The event is now called Raid De Himalayas and I am still an aspirant. :-) Maybe this year. But yes what did satisfy me on this trip was that I beat my own record of driving down to Delhi from Manali by almost two hours. Well, I did gained curses from wife who was back broken by the time we got home, but ...
sumitmalhotra 04.02.2004
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Advantages: Beautiful, friendly locals, excellent scenary. Disadvantages: winding roads which may cause travel sickness.
...to upload the photos of Manali here but unfortunately can't paste them. India is a beautiful country. Last year we’d been to Manali, which is a hill station nestled amongst the Himalayas. It lies in the state of Himachal Pradesh, a top tourist destination. We went to the capital of India, Delhi by train since we live in Mumbai. Delhi also has an international airport from where Manali is very accessible. So if you are not from India you could book ... ...The ride to Manali is a pleasure unless you get sick in a car while going uphill. We set off from the railway station at around 9.00 at night and within a few hours we were skirting beautiful cities like Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh. Towards dawn we were going round the mountain and it was beautiful to watch the sun rise softly against the mountains of snow and greenery. After we located our hotel which was on mall road and freshened up we went ...
urooj0691 16.05.2009 (16.06.2009)
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