My trip to Roopkund
The adventurers … Anant, Chaitanya, Imran, Navin, Raman, Rajukumar, Srinivas (Vasu), Tushar and Virag
We were in all 9 people … Two of them were gonna come from Bangalore and they were destined to join us at Hazrat Nizammudin station at Delhi … and they indeed reached well before we did. 7 of us boarded the train from Pune a day earlier than our Bangalore crew.
The race to catch the train .. and the journey begins ..
We had a booking from Pune to Delhi in Karnataka Sampark Kranti Express. The train was scheduled to depart from pune station at 3:10 pm. But we all were in Magarpatta city till 2:30 and my, anant’s and navin’s luggage was at our home, which is on the way to station. So we all were in a panic mode. We somehow managed to reach the station on time and catch the train.
On the way out of Pune, we saw the BHEL project, Magarpatta city, town of Loni and so on. There were a lot of sugarcane farms on the way and we had some fun discussions on these farms . Then we did our usual timepass by playing cards and singing random songs. Our train was designated to stop at a few stations on the way – Bhusawal, Bhopal, Jhansi. However, it did stop at a lot of stations due to signal clearance problems. On the first day, we all slept somewhere after Manmad. Next morning, Vatsalya’s dad was gonna come at Bhopal and collect the parcel that we were carrying to be dropped at Bhopal. In return, we were expecting a lot of grub. And we were overwhelmed by the delicious sweets and namkeens that vatsalya’s father had given us. After doing usual timepass on the way we reached Jhansi, where Navin’s mom was gonna come. But for some reason we weren’t able to meet her. Navin’s health was bad and he was likely to drop the plans and go home. But he did survive that temptation for good. Then the train did not stop at Agra and it did not stop at Mathura, so we were deprived of famous pedas and pethas. Finally we reached Hazrat Nizammudin station at around 5:15 pm. We joined forces with Raman and Vasu from Bangalore. This was the first time I met Vasu and I thought that he was a very silent kind of guy … and even worse than Raman with respect to communicating in Hindi ;). We lingered in the waiting room with our very heavy luggage for sometime thinking what to do next. We were supposed to catch a train to Haldwani at 11:00pm, so we had roughly around 5 hours to grasp as much of Delhi as we can.
To be continued later .........
We were in all 9 people … Two of them were gonna come from Bangalore and they were destined to join us at Hazrat Nizammudin station at Delhi … and they indeed reached well before we did. 7 of us boarded the train from Pune a day earlier than our Bangalore crew.
The race to catch the train .. and the journey begins ..
We had a booking from Pune to Delhi in Karnataka Sampark Kranti Express. The train was scheduled to depart from pune station at 3:10 pm. But we all were in Magarpatta city till 2:30 and my, anant’s and navin’s luggage was at our home, which is on the way to station. So we all were in a panic mode. We somehow managed to reach the station on time and catch the train.
On the way out of Pune, we saw the BHEL project, Magarpatta city, town of Loni and so on. There were a lot of sugarcane farms on the way and we had some fun discussions on these farms . Then we did our usual timepass by playing cards and singing random songs. Our train was designated to stop at a few stations on the way – Bhusawal, Bhopal, Jhansi. However, it did stop at a lot of stations due to signal clearance problems. On the first day, we all slept somewhere after Manmad. Next morning, Vatsalya’s dad was gonna come at Bhopal and collect the parcel that we were carrying to be dropped at Bhopal. In return, we were expecting a lot of grub. And we were overwhelmed by the delicious sweets and namkeens that vatsalya’s father had given us. After doing usual timepass on the way we reached Jhansi, where Navin’s mom was gonna come. But for some reason we weren’t able to meet her. Navin’s health was bad and he was likely to drop the plans and go home. But he did survive that temptation for good. Then the train did not stop at Agra and it did not stop at Mathura, so we were deprived of famous pedas and pethas. Finally we reached Hazrat Nizammudin station at around 5:15 pm. We joined forces with Raman and Vasu from Bangalore. This was the first time I met Vasu and I thought that he was a very silent kind of guy … and even worse than Raman with respect to communicating in Hindi ;). We lingered in the waiting room with our very heavy luggage for sometime thinking what to do next. We were supposed to catch a train to Haldwani at 11:00pm, so we had roughly around 5 hours to grasp as much of Delhi as we can.
To be continued later .........
posted by Virag at 2:55 AM
2 Comments:
Abey ... remaining part of the story kab likega ? ... jaldi lik
could you please mention the date
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