We had called up a
vehicle to drive us till Ukhimath from where we hoped to get a bus till
Rudraprayag. The driver was a local and was driving quite tactfully in those
conditions. We reached Ukhimath safe and sound. From Ukhimath we were supposed
to go till Rudraprayag. But the jeep we sat in dropped us short and we had to
change another bus before we reached Rudraprayag. We had tea in Rudraprayag and
caught a bus till Haridwar. It went on quite smoothly till Nandprayag where he
asked us to switch to another bus.
But this was not the end
to the misery of returning. On catching a bus to Delhi from Haridwar, it
started making strange noises and went dead half an hour after it had started.
Passengers were stranded on the roads at around 8 pm and the driver and the bus
conductor were making all efforts to call another bus from the nearest depot
and tackling the ire of the passengers simultaneously. Luckily within another
15 minutes another bus had come and everyone was making mayhem to grab the
seats. We also grabbed suitable seats and left for Delhi. We reached at around
2 am on 27 Dec, Sunday to Kashmere gate from where we took an auto and reached
back to the home sweet home.
The journey was as much a
reunion of the best of the friends as much as another getaway from the
commotion of our daily lives. With a lot of planning and successful execution
with ad-hoc management in between, we managed to make the trip a successful
one. With many learning and more plans in mind for future, it's time to start
saving trinkets to accomplish more of such expeditions.
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