Lansdowne Trip

Last weekend, I was in Lansdowne [Uttranchal]. This trip was organized by team AI and it was truly a great and appreciable effort. We started for Old Delhi Rlwy Station on Friday at 8:30 PM from the office. Our seats were reserved in coach B-2 in Mussorie express, which started at its right time 10:30 PM. Our destination was Kotdwar. The whole night was fun, and we all did full masti. In fact, all the team members were so happy and pulling legs of each other.

We reached Kotdwar early in the morning by 6:00 AM. We started for Lansdowne by buses [already booked]. We reached resort "Blue Pine Resort" at almost 8:30. After having breakfast at around 10:30, we started for local sight-seeing. We went to Tip-n-top, which is the top most place of the hill on which our resort was located. We can see Himalayas [white snow mountains] from this place, but these mountains are quite far so don’t expect a very close view of the mountains. Now we headed towards Bhulla Lake, which is a man-made lake. This lake has been made for the army people basically. Here few of my teammates chose for boating. Then we went to the Church, I forgot the exact name of it. But in this church, we watched movie about "The Gharwal Rifles" and it was really good.

Lansdowne – The Natural Beauty                                                Friends on a great trip

After these many visits, we decided to go back to the resort. After having lunch, I slept for almost 2 hours. In the evening time, we had tea and snacks. Now few of us started for the Lansdowne market, and there we found nothing to buy. We came back to the resort and it was time for the camp fire. We all started playing "Dumb-shiraj". Then we all rocked the dance floor. I am still having memories of Mohan anna’s superb South Indian dance steps and Karan and Anish’s Punjabi Bhangara steps and my jumping dance steps. Shariq, Manish, Shashwat – everyone was dancing like anything, and why not, we all were having a great weekend, far from Noida and in the very beautiful natural location.

Blue Pine Resort- We stayed here                             Karan, Anish, me and Shariq [on dance floor]

Next morning we all started for Taadakeshwar Mahadev. We all were divided in two buses. One bus went to the Taadakeshwar, but the bus in which we were didn’t go. So actually what happened? The place mentioned is at the bottom of the hill and quite far from resort. When we started coming down, slowly slowly people started feeling vomiting. 1-2-3 and 4, 4 people from my bus were in real bad condition. A call was taken, whether we should continue for this place or return. The decision was to return. Hence we all returned back to the resort.

Camp Fire                                                             Mohan, Anish, Shariq and Me [Roaming in market]

After coming back to the resort, I and Mohan played TT for long time. Even Ravi and Yogesh Sharma joined us. Then we had lunch and started playing Cricket. We played Cricket for quite long time. We all started for Kotdwar after evening tea. When we started for Kotdwar, we tried to utilize the time and DB [Dinkar Bhatia] sung songs for all of us – "Tu maike mat jaaiyo" and "Neela Aasmaan Kho gaya". I liked his songs a lot and admired too. Great going DB, keep it up. In fact, his Neela Assmaan song was so right at the time, because when we were in Lansdowne, the sky was so blue and bright [see the photograph], that I was really astonished. We people living in cities can’t see the same sky because of pollution. Overall we had a great time but our trip was at its end.

Finally we were back in office on Monday morning with the same usual life, but after enjoying a happy and refreshing weekend.