Kafeera to chal diya

by Vishakha Pandey (India)

A leap into the unknown India

In September 2019, I went to spiti valley in the Himalayan region. Firstly reached to Shimla from Delhi, experienced exfoliating climate and did some rides and adventure stuffs zip line, ladder walk and punjing jumping. Then moved to chitkul witness the glory of river deltas and last village of India, then went to visit the monasteries, after than headed towards the kaza beautiful and soothing place to visit and humble people always ready to help . There was no internet connection so it is the best place to disconnect from the everyone and just live in the moment peacefully,I had great company there with the volunteers Woking in the hostel where I stayed and I party hard with them , next morning headed towards spiti valley it was felt like I was going through in a different planet , roads covered by mountain , the view was breathtaking and I finally reached to chandrataal lake there I stayed in the camp , I found the company of bunch of foreigners , we stayed up all night talking, singing , liting the marijuana and witnessing the sky view in the night , it was phenomenal experience I couldn't even express it in words, then in next ,opening around t o clock I went on trekking twords chandrataal lake , the view I witness over there brings tears to my eyes it was so beautiful, calm and soothing, moon's light reflection on the river surrounded by mountain , freezing water oh my ! It was ecclesiastical , I was overwhelmed and thankful that I decided to come here to witness the ethreal beauty. In the afternoon finally I set back to visit Manali reached in the night then went to visit the mail road, had tattooed on my neck and dreadlock , Manali was different , full of people yet beautiful and peaceful to be there , I halt there for just one night and in the next morning went to kasol , had many joints, with starngers , get to talk to them , know there story , went to trek to tosh , it was beautiful experience of my life and I'm never ever gonna forget it and thankful to universe for this opportunity. finally the next morning form kasol took a bus for delhi and reached to my destination. For few days I was transcend in to the places where I visited to . I had very vast experience through this trip , I felt more confident and less scared . I did everything I dreamt of once , like bunging jumping, paragliding , talking to starngers , smoking joints one on one, experiencing trekking and the beautiful views that brings tears to my eyes. It was like the meditation for me, when I went to different monestries I felt so positive and Full of enthusiasm, it was something extraordinary, when you get to talk to new people , you understand their culture and values and it's the most beautiful experience one could ever witness. The most coincidence thing happened in the kasol when I was heading back to Delhi with the bunch of friends I made there whom I told about my birthday ,they gave me surprise sharp at 12 o clock on 22 September and I was so overwhelmed and I started crying , they starting singing happy birthday song so loudly in the bus and they made me embarrassed😂, every individual in the bus wished me. It was really good and funny as well. I knew at that moment that I made friends for life. I'm very bad at biding goodbyes so it was very hard for me to leave my friends behind and heading towards the same routine life . I recently went to Mumbai to meet them it was like again living those moments the laughter , the stupid stuffs we Did, reminiscing every bit of the trip we really had amazing talk . Traveling is becoming my passion and my love as the day are passing by , I really wanna travel across the world and witness every bit of this entire world, this has become the only agenda of my life ,to travel like nomads and live my life with full of possibilities and happiness and I am gonna achieve it someday till my last breathe I will try and try this thing.