Hi friends i had a great vaishno devi tour on 22nd and 23rd february,2008.i went with my four friends
santanu, gaurav suri, lokesh and chandru
cool things about vaishno devi tour:-
spontaneous plan- we made the plan on 21st feb( but actually we have waited for this trip right from the first year).
- got the hemkund express at the right time and right general dubba(we got five seats).
- ticket 102 Rs. (kkr to jammu) and 45 (jammu to katra).
- took hotel for some rest = 100 Rs.- had breakfast gobhi tanduri parantha and aalu parantha. dahi mast tha.
- we started our chadhai at 9.30 a.m. (23rd feb) from katra and eventually returned from all temples at 11 p.m.(23rd feb).
- first we took autorickshaw from katra to Baan Ganga.- entry gate was very attractive. all made of makrana marbles.
- one more thing lokesh brought his olympus camera 7.0 megapixel and this is not the point, main thing he was really keen to take our photos, so he is in very few photographs. Thanks for his interest in photography that we had very cool pictures.
- from baan ganga our next stop was a shop from where we had lemon soda (banta).
- then we reached to adhkawari and then we learned that we are next in the queue, so we prepared for this and submit all our belongings like bags, wallet, belt, shoes, phones etc.
- our no. came after two hours, during that period we enjoyed with lokesh in the queue, we took fun of him. and ya one more point we shouted very loudly ""JAI MATA DI"".
- the experience in the cave was very wonderful. actually mein i don't have any prblm(from god's grace), but my friends were little bit afraid, anyway they also enjoyed very much.
- from Adhkawari vaishno devi shrine board made a tunnel for linking Adhkwari to new route to bhawan. this tunnel saved precious time and efforts because we can skip Sanjhi Chatt and HATHI MATHA. so we took that tunnel and reached to that new route.
- we reached to bhawan at 4.30. one more thing that we got to know that we can have darshan from the paani waali cave or i can say old cave for pindi darshan before 6 o colck, se we were getting ready for darshan very fast. water was very cold at bhawan and we took a very very cool bath.
- we reached to Gate no.1 entry point to darbaar for general public.
- now comes the interesting part of our trip that we can not forget. we entered into the gate no.1 at 5:05, and as soon we went in, i and suri start running santanu, lokesh and chandru were also running behind us. then we reached to first checkpoint. There two rows merged into one. one comes from military gate(we also tried for getting in from there as chandru father is in AIR Force, but we didnt get any permission, for that you've to register at katra only) and one is from gate no.1, as there was no security personnel so we entered into that queue and after checking we ran and ran and ran, people were asking why you people are going in this way. we all were saying only these types of lines while we were running "Oye ID Card hai na, we are from defence, ID card bahar nikal kar rakh, and few more.". and in this way we reached to the Darbar at 5.15 now this is what we can not forget.
- we had darshan and came out from the darbaar and we all were ready by the 6 o clock. so we took 1.5 hours at bhawan.
- now we have to go to Bhairav Mandir, as this is necessary if you want ur wishes to be fulfill. this route is not so easy, as you become very tired upto this time and route is also very steep.
- so we started, and decided that we'll go from the stairs, as route is not so wide and you will be cautious all the time of PONIES.- we reached bhairav mandir at 7.30 and got to know that mandir will open at 8 o clock. so we took some rest there.
- there we heard the story of Maa VAISHNO DEVI and BHAIRAV. It is very intersting to know about the place that you're visiting. All history and fundas and trivias...(Interesting)
- Again queue was not so long. we took around one and a half hour there. Water was as usual very chilled.
-After having Darshan we started back journey from Bhairav to Katra.
- it was 9.20 at that time then we again ran ran and ran, took all downstairs and plain road and finally we reached to Baan Ganga at 11.40. During that time we had Maggi,Cappucino at Nescafe.(Maggi was not so good but cappucino was good).
- we reached to katra by auto from there first we took a bus for Jammu as there was no direct bus from Katra to Delhi.
- Then after some time we saw a bus which was from Haryana Roadways and then we asked the conductor where the bus is going and we got to know it is going to Ambala. So we left that Jammu bus. Then the Drama started..All Jammu Roadways Bus staff came there and shouted on our driver that you took five passengers from this bus and if you go with them then we'll block your way and this drama remained for half an hour and then our bus finally started from there at 12.45.
- We reached to Ambala at 10.30 a.m.(24th feb). We had a great pain at that time. Legs, Arms, Neck and Headache.
- Somehow we reached to our Hostel. Then i took a Hot bath and a lunch, then went for the sleep as next day i've to go for Jaipur.
This is my first post Hope soon i'll come with my next post...
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