Chail Trip

         Chail, Himachal Pradesh 

             (13 -18 June 2024)

I really follow a quote "Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.” life is too short , make sure you enjoy its every moment.Travelling has special importance in my life, After marriage, I started travelling with my husband. He loved travelling and I also started enjoying it. We used to plan one or two trip in every summer vacations and winter vacations. We have visited many places till now. 

This is my first vlog on traveling, we were in Chail, Himachal Pradesh this year. It was a wonderful trip I swear. I love to spend some time in the lap of nature and Chail was the perfect destination for 'Sukoon' . 

So there were two ways of reaching there from Agra, One from Via Chandigarh and second via Kalka. We got confirmed tickets of Chandigarh so we decided to go via Chandigarh route. We started our journey at 7.00pm from Agra and reached Chandigarh early in the morning around 4.00 am.

After getting down at the station we first had tea and sandwiches, got rid of the laziness and went out of the station. Many taxi drivers started coming to us and offered to take us to our destination.Finally we booked a taxi for Rs. 4000 to drop to the Chail.

The taxi had dropped us at Sadhupul a little before Chail in about 3 hours. 

We were 6 adults and 2 children in this trip .We had booked camping at Sadhupul, so we had to stayed for a day on the river side. It was an awesome experience of camping, the surrounding was mind blowing and peaceful.We booked two luxurious cottages because of children.After reaching the room, we freshened up, ate and drank and first of all we took some rest.In the afternoon everyone had taken lunch, took some photographs of the surroundings and set out for trekking towards a waterfall.

The roads were very beautiful and we enjoyed a lot. After descending there was a small river flowing, which we had to cross to reach the waterfall. The roads were as beautiful as they were dangerous  and our first wicket was down when the first person from our group slipped while crossing the river.Although the river was not deep but it was full of big stones due to which there was a great risk of getting hurt. However, no one got hurt much and we all gathered ourselves and started moving forward.As we moved a little further, the second wicket also fell down. My sister slipped very hard and fell in the water.This time we were scared because she had a lot of trouble in getting up, but fortunately in some time she felt okay and we started moving ahead. Unfortunately the first person slipped again and now all of us started feeling really scared. We all thought a lot about whether we should go ahead or go back. There we saw some local people and we asked them how far the waterfall was. They said it was about 2 km further .It was getting dark and we all were scared too so finally I decided to return back to the Hotel and spend sometime near our riverside Hotel.Now we came back to hotel and also drank local apple juice on the way.After 15 minutes, we reached the river flowing near the hotel and sat there on the rocks in the water and enjoyed the cool breeze and calm waves.Sitting there it felt like all the tiredness vanished. Enjoyed Maggie, tea, and cold drinks at the riverside restaurant. We stayed there till 8 pm and then came to room and had dinner.

Second day we checked out our room and decided to go to Chial by bus.It was approximately 12 kilometers away and it took us 40 minutes to reach Chail.After reaching Chail first we booked a Hotel near the bus stand it was beautiful Hotel and location was very convenient as it was near the bus stand, Taxi stand and Chail Palace.There are too many Hotels near the bus stand so anyone can get a room very easily.As it was a noon first we had taken lunch in a restaurant,And after eating, we booked a taxi from the taxi stand because there were 8 people among us, so we had to take a bigger car which cost Rs. 1500 for two points at the rock temple and Kali Tibba temple.Both the places were on very height and the route to reach there is very beautiful and dangerous too specially of stone temple.Both temples were awesome and artful.

              Stone temple 

                 Kali Tibba   

After visiting both the places, we returned to the taxi stand and after trekking about 2 kms, we reached a beautiful Gurudwara in the evening.It was so beautiful and peaceful you will not feel like coming back from there. We spend around 1.30 hour at Gurudwara and returned to our Hotel.On the way to the hotel, some Himachali boys were playing cricket. We requested them to make us play with them, Himachalis are so good that they would happily let us offered batting first.This 25 minute game made our trip extra special. It was 15 June which was the birthday date of my son so we celebrated it in the Hotel's restaurant. 

Next morning we We went to Chail Palace on foot because it was near our hotel, the way to reach the palace was very beautiful and the palace was also very beautiful. Entry fee is 200 rupees per person,3 idiots movie was shot in this palace. Palace also have arrangements of staying, many cottages and rooms are available but the charges are a bit higher.we spend 3 hours there and returned back and checked out Hotel. We reached Kalka and  caught a train to Agra.

Overall it was a wonderful trip with my family if someone want a peaceful time especially at place of peace amidst nature, it is the best place near Delhi.