The pahadi guy,jain sahab and chowdhury ji started their journey on Friday night 31 jul by private super A.C Coach Bus(description of bus written in travel agent's shop).Chowdhury ji and jain sahab reached Krishan Travels by correct time but the pahadi guy got late because of his project issues (stop watch in mobile .. :P).But finally pahadi guy also reached and all three boarded the bus by 9:00 PM.Chowdhury ji has bought lots of cake,lays and namkeen, and all three started munching the junks as soon as the bus started. After some time the phadai guy and jain sahab were lost in dreams and only chowdhury ji was awake and playing games in his mobile,messaging and listening music.After 12.00 PM chowdhury ji was also lost in dreams... :P.The bus was very comfortable and all three got a sound sleep.But Chowdhury ji woke up at 4:00 am when rain water started flowing over him from the edge of windows due to heavy rainfall.Chowdhury ji got sacred... :P but rainfall stopped as soon as the bus reached at Lakhnapur stop.They reached Jammu by 5:00 am, both jain sahab and chowdhury ji were up by that time but the pahadi guy was still lost in his dreams.The weather was awesome after Jammu, bus conductor also switched off the AC and opened the windows to let the fresh cool air come in... :) Jain sahab and chowdury ji enjoyed the awesome weather but the pahadi guy did not realized it.Finally he sensed the morning just before they are about to reach Katra. They book a hotel in Katra for 400 bucks and after taking a little rest they came out for breakfast. Jain Sahab and the pahadi guy ordered 2 alloo and 2 ghobi ke paranthe, they were expecting some good punjabi style paranthe, chowdhury ji was bit confused but after looking at jain sahab's and pahadi guy's confidence chowhdury ji also ordered 1 ghobi ka parnatha. he he .. but guess wat... Parantha's were pathetic half cooked in tandoor, it was very difficult to figure out what to call that thing parantha ,or roti or something else like "pahadi parantha"... lol :D. After breakfast chowdhury ji brought yatra ka ticket, there was no rush at all chowdhury ji was alone in the queue of tickets.All three started their first trip to vaishno devi (Jai Mata Di). But as soon as they started.. the ghoda wala's started jumping over them.... "ghoda kar lo sahab hoda kar lo sahab.. ".The whole road was covered with shit of horses , after covering few meters they realized there are more horses than man on the way and lots of shops on both sides of road. They thought the journey's is going to be very boring if the whole road will be like this only, they had something else in their mind they thought it will be nice track with lots of natural beauties to see..They were disappointed... :( But after moving few km's more, the shops started reducing and weather also got changed.The beautiful mountain top, covered with clouds was clearly visible now, they clicked lots of photos.They were more excited now to reach at the top and in to the clouds... :).The pahadi guy was very excited about the stairs his pahadi blood was forcing him towards the stairs but chowdhury ji and jain sahab were not ready to go by stairs so pahadi guy has to follow them...he he. The ghoda wala's on the way annoyed them a lot but then they reached a point where the road was divided in two directions one was not allowed for horses so they took that one.A very good decision made by them .. their were no horses and no horse shit at all on that road.All three clicked lots and loads of times on that way with jain sahab's brand new digital camera.... (10 mp optical zoom) ,pahadi guy also tried to climb over the pahad to get clicked,, :P lol and after few more kilometers they were into the clouds. They were super excited and tired also but the awesome weather did not let them realize it. Finally they reached Bahwan, there was no rush but still they were not even allowed to stop for a second in the gufa(cave).Chowdhury ji was just trying to figure out where to look, which is the actual pindi and the security wala pushed him to exit, same happened with the pahadi guy and jain sahab.They even didn't get proper time to pray or make their wish. It was raining heavily when they came outside.So they decided to have lunch and went to 'arveez resturaant ' near bhawan, jain sahab and the pahadi guy ordered rajam chawal and chowdhury ji opted for tali... the food was good.After food jain sahab wanted to have some sweet so the pahadi guy brought 2 plate kacche (half cooked) gulab jamun and 1 plate (pathetic) jalebi's. The pahadi guy tasted only the brown portion of the gulab jamun's.... :P
After vaishno devi the next stop was bhairon ghati 1.5 km from vaishno devi.But it was like 15 km, the pahadi guy,jain sahab ,chowdhury ji somehow managed to reach bhairon ghati.Finally at bharon ghati jain sahab and the pahadi guy got stove made tea.They don't like nestea and all that dip wali tea.. :).Chowdhury ji never tasted tea in his life... he he :)
From bharo ghati they started thier return journey, they thought it will not take much time to get down but it took 3 hrs...!!. On the way a monkey snatched the bag of prasad from jain sahab's hand...:P jain sahab tried to hold it but monkey won and got his prize (the prasad)... :P.
All three were down by 10:30 pm. For dinner they preferred Sagar Ratna after bad experience of parantha's at local restaurants in morning.. :). The pahadi guy wanted to have ice cream somewhere outside after dinner but chowdhury ji was not ready to walk anymore. Their legs were paining like hell and now they just want to go back to hotel and sleep sleep and sleep....
Next morning they did the same mistake again, they went to a local restaurant and ordered a parantha.. :P. After breakfast they started from Katra and reached Jammu by 11:00. Their train was at 2 :00 pm so they decided to visit the famous Ragunath temple.The temple was good but no camera's allowed so the pahadi guy and chowdhury ji were bit disappointed.They came back to station but the fans on the platform's were not working and weather was horrible in Jammu.It was very difficult for them to wait on the platform for 2 hours, the pahadi guy was sweating badly but then chowdhury ji suggested them to buy a newspaper and sit on it at the end of platform.. :P, that place was quite airy.The train arrived on time and Jammu was the starting point,but still the train started 1 hr late... gawd ..Indian railways.Jain sahab took the upper berth and slept as soon as the train started, pahadi guy was busy smsing his rommie about his captured Almira in his absence.. :P. Though train started late but still reached Ambala by time and the pahadi guy,jain sahab and chowdhury ji were at their rooms by 11:00.. :).
P.S - he he he ... the story of three friends (the pahadi guy,jain sahab,chowdhury ji)
