Chail Trip :-) .. "A walk in the clouds"

Long long time since I updated here! I've been concentrating a lot on my new blogs @ "ishi's daily dose" and "Between Friends" and also been caught up at home। My usual ramblings can be read in the "daily dose" blog and I will not repeat all that's been going on with me here all over again :)

What I got here to write about is the trip I made to Chail this past weekend. It was R's annual office trip. I blogged about the last trip here >> "Heaven is a place on Earth :-) ... The Khajjiar Trip!"

Sunset view from the resort

We left Delhi by Kalka Mail on thursday night. The train was running late but we made it to Chandigarh at around 4:15 am and then took a bus ride to the resort which was around a 4 hour drive. The resort "Tarika Jungal Resort" was some 5-6 kms away from main Chail on a hillside with a grand view of Shimla and Solan on one side and snow peaks on the other.

View from our balcony

We were a group of 50 odd people. Most of us travelled together on the train and bus (two 35 seaters) while some others travelled in their own cars. We had much of the resort to ourselves and the children were delighted with the play area for kids :)...there were swings/slides and other games to keep the kids occupied. The resort was spread over a rather vast area and had different living arrangements...cottages, rooms, suites, etc. What was interesting was the glass dome like buildings of the reception area, gym/suana/spa and the honeymoon suite which gave a nice view of the sky and hills around....hmmmm :)

Suchi had joined us in this trip and we got two adjoining rooms with balconies that had a lovely view of the peaks. Lucky for us the rooms had a connecting door which made it easy for us to be together. Vedant decided that one room was for the boys (that's him and Rajiv) and the other was for the girls (that's Suchi and I) :)

The walk from our rooms to the dining area was very scenic indeed. We took a nice path that cut across the resort area and gave us a spectacular view of Shimla and Solan towns in the far distance. At night watching the twinkling lights of the two towns reminded us of jewels glittering in the dark :)... loved that!

There were a lot of activities too. One could make use of the gym or take walks/short treks to a temple nearby/ get a kerela body massage (i heard that was very relaxing!). There were games like basket ball or cricket and a pool table. We had our own games for the kids and the adults too. Of which Rajiv won the "fire in the mountain" game :P and later at night we partied a lot. Rajiv was lucky through the trip winning the seconf prize in the fancy dress nite. He went as a bashed up guy with a broken head/legs/bruises all over/black eye etc and a placard that read "I kissed my neighbhor's wife!" LOL! :D I went as a gypsy woman and V was a fireman! :) The first prize went to one of R's colleague's .. a guy who dressed up as a glamourous woman :P ... truly outrageous but a helluva lot of fun! The best win was when R and I won the couples paper dance :) ... don't even ask what a task that was... he he!

There was also a trip to the famous Chail cricket ground (said to be the highest in the world) and to a famous temple nearby.

We were there till sunday morning and left soon after breakfast. Took a bus ride to Kalka town and stopped midway for lunch. We got the Shatabdi (train) to Delhi in the evening. The train ride was fun too. In fact I guess you'd agree that anytime you're in any group outing everything ends up as fun. All the talks, games, gossip sessions, singing, dancing...everything adds to the fun and hulla bullla! :P

Personally, I would like to go back to this resort with just the family and spend a good holiday there. It was nice, secluded and I liked the whole idea of just lazing around and being away from the hurried pace of city life.

I'd recommend it as a place to visist to people living in and around delhi and more so if they're keen on driving up and making it there in their own car. A stop over for the night at Chandigarh would help one get refreshed and start the drive uphill early morning! :)

Enough for now. Changing the music in the sidebar to a song which shows off the hills of North India :) from the movie "Taal" ... the song playing is "Taal se taal mila" (one of the few songs of aishwarya I love)