with extra zeal on 17Dec night. and moved on 18th Friday Night.
We had our train from New Delhi at 8:50pm. Quickly completed our work and moved from office at 4:30pm sharp, all reached at my place. Had some morsel, have taken out some cash from nearby ATM and finally stepped out for railway station at 7:15pm.
One of our friend was really feeling shy being in a girls group. :P :P
at last we collected our tickets from him and boarded the train, the malodorous compartment :( :( we expeditiously settled down on seats next to our reserved ones and kept all our bags on our seats. Indians Mentality!!! and started killing time by exclusive photo shoot.
We had 4 groups in a same package- 2 families and 1 group like ours. But we didnt know where they are and we weren't even interested in knowing that either LOL
PRAAN NATH- was again one of the tour coordinator who will guide us to reach hotel in Katra.
After dinner we went for sleep & I preferred the top most berth.
We reached to Jammu Station at 7:00am Sat and started searching for ours only "PRAN NATH". Since you enter in Jammu as far as Cell Phone Network is concerned. You are dead about communications as no network operator seems to be caring about his prepaid customers in roaming.
We met Pran Nath outside Annapurna Dhabba. Where we met other group members as well.
- One Sardar Family- Aunt & Uncle.
- Another one was a family of 5 members.
- 3 Boys Group.
- Our Group
and reached there at 10:20am via cab. Took the keys for our Room No. 107 and quickly went in to fresh n up..
All groups got ready for the ultimate climbing except for Boys group, I always heard that girls occupy time to get ready but got to know that some boys also do that :) :) . Later we got to know that they ordered brunch that ate most of our precious time.
We reached to our Destination (Bhawan) by 7:30, I guess, that too because we were desperate for not resting much due to our tight schedule & reciting hymes Zor se bolo- Jai Mata Di, Saare Bolo- Jai Mata Di.
We went for bath to Snan Ghar and i cant define that in my words the expressions of mine when i stepped out of my shoes. The ground was cold like snow and the water was like ice.
After that we moved to cloak Room for depositing our belongings, However there was a long queue and we decided to keep our belongings with pithu. Without even thinking of getting it lost or stolen. We just kept it with Pithu who has been hired by one of the Family Group.
Literal 5 hours long queue, which at times seems to be not moving due to irritating crowd, which constantly trying to sneak into the queue. The queue almost broke all the bones after such a tough walk from Katra and standing bare foot in almost minus temperature makes you feel you dont have feet left any more with you.
All the groups got separated in the mid of the journey and all got connected again in the queue. One was in the cage, one went with a VIP pass, we were shivering in the never ending queue and 4th were passing by us, and it was there luck actually we called them and ask them to stand along with us otherwise they have to start from the end of the queue. And that was the time we got introduced with each other.
All the pains, hurdles were gone for a while as we got the open Darshan and i didnt want to move from there but had to as others also had to get chance.
Now we were 5 in a group continuing the journey for Bhairo Baba Temple which is another 5-7 kms away from there, People believe that your darshan wont get complete till the time you wont go there.
Shweta completely denied to move further, i tried hard to convience her and at last got success. We both girls were moving literally slow as we were quite tired in comparison to boys. But thanks to their never ending support we managed to complete the journey with joy. And also got to know them better than before.
While coming down we tried to learn some photography tricks. :) :)
And there was a time when mine and Shweta's legs denied to step ahead. But again thanks to a medicine :P :P "Nimolid" with the help of which Shweta learnt to run LOL.
At last we reached hotel at 7:30am and went for sleep till 1:00am. We woke up, had tea, went for bath and got ready to go for sumptuous lunch together around 2:30pm.
Some even got time to click there own pics :P :P :P
We Checked out from hotel
yes not to forget those hot hot Gulab jamun. :P :P
We finally reached to jammu station at 8:15pm and then 2 of the group members went to purchase dinner for us and that was quite sweet gesture from them as their legs were also going from the same pain. Thanks Ravi!! Thanks Vineet!! for the unfathomable gesture :) :)
We all finally boarded the train and met with all the lovely group members had dinner, played dumshrads, and went for sleep.
But apart from this we certainly enjoyed every part of the itinerary and would love to visit the place again. I wish Mata will call me again for Darshan :) :) Jai Mata Di!!!