Holiday tour in a hilly region

 

                                   2-3 days on holiday tour in a hilly region

I work as a private tutor and have busy schedule maximum of time because my job is very responsible for providing training to new candidates who are going to start their career life after the completion of their education. It does not permit any chance to irresponsibility to disturb the precious time of mine and my students. I have less time to serve my recreation and entertainment because I always keep myself busy to search out new training techniques and updated programs needed for new coming professionals. It is very hard to find some spare time for own personal aviation flow. Life is busy and spending some time with family or friends at some holiday spot is just a dream.

It was the month of April, 2023, when I got two days holidays as all the students were on holiday for home preparation because I completed my syllabus and training. My family and I prepared a tour of a little distance of about 200 kms for two days stay to a hilly region called Mussoorie. It is a little hilly town which is well equipped with all modern life facilities and is a famous touring place at Uttarakhand. I was free for Friday and Saturday and next day was Sunday. So I had 3 days to spend free enjoying time with my family.  All were happy and delighted because after a long time we were having a tour for fun and entertainment. We packed our luggage a day before and the next morning on Friday we all started our journey early morning near about 7 O’clock. It was around 8 hours tour by road and we all enjoyed while travelling in the car. My family members sang songs along with the car music system. After two and a half hours, we found a good little restaurant where the travellers rush was not much. We actually planned for breakfast at a restaurant. The restaurant looked nice from outside and inside and the breakfast taste was beyond our expectation. We had a nice breakfast time and we relaxed also for half an hour along with breakfast. The journey left was for around 7 hours and we wanted to reach without stop as soon as possible. We had already booked a family room at a lodge. We were all excited and happy to visit our destination because that was our first ever hilly holiday tour. Mussoorie is a beautiful place and it attracts many tourists because it is not so far and is easy to reach. We travelled through the highway at a constant balanced speed enjoying travelling and dreaming our holiday stay. In between our way, we discussed our program for visiting sights and food items while staying at the holiday spot. We drove a large distance and finally reached the place at around 3:30.

The mountain scenery all around looked amazing and beautiful. The spot was full of little rush because it was a week end and a nearest tourist place for visitors. Now, it was time for our tea and we all were wishing for a little rest and relaxation. We found a nice tea shop where some tourists families were having tea and chatting with each other. It seemed they visited there by bus because it was a big group. After all, we found an empty sitting place and we ordered for tea. Soon, we all had tea  and some snacks as we didn’t have lunch on the way. Now, it was a new job for us to find a suitable and affordable hotel room for us all.  I contacted the tea stall owner and asked him about some nice hotel. He advised us to drive little more into the market street and after market we would find good hotels. We caught his advice and moved slowly towards the destination. Yes, the place he described was really wonderful. There were hotels all around and many visitors were walking and roaming while enjoying their stay. Holiday place is a place where we forget all daily life stress and worries. The holiday spot scene seems worry free and a life living place. After contacting two hotels, I found a room in a hotel whose balcony opened towards the valley and mountains far away. Although,  mountains were all around and we were in mountains.  It was amazing to see the view and miraculous nature. My family loved to see the view from balcony and along with chatting, we all laid in bed for some time. It grew around 9 O’clock and we wished to refresh and have some meal. We thought to have dinner out of hotel at a restaurant. We wanted to walk around the hotel. We went out and walked towards market. We found people every where at every restaurant. All dinner spots were full.

 We waited for some time and walked into the street. After half an hour, we returned to a restaurant and found 2 vacant tables. We occupied one table and ordered our menu. Dinner was awesome. It was delicious and we all family members liked its taste. We hoped to have such restaurant in our city. We admired for food and its service at the restaurant cash counter where we paid the bill, the person thanked us with a nice smile.  Walking slowly and chatting something about the place, we all wished to stay out of hotel for some time. We were not sleepy and we wished to enjoy the beauty and freshness of mountains  in the night. The hotel lights and street lights were making the environment glowing and shining.  It seemed that we were really living a beautiful natural life. We spent around one hour there and inhaled fresh hilly oxygen, feeling amazingly refreshed and self absorbed. Such internal refreshment can only be found at such place.

We were all relaxed, no liability for tomorrow, staying with full relaxation being free of all life jobs. The watch showed 11 O’ clock but we were not willing to enter our hotel because we visited the place to relax and enjoy the place. Many tourists were walking and mostly sitting here and there just enjoying the spot. The night view was very beautiful and attractive. We wished to stay there for some more time. Mostly, all the tourists were out of hotels and some were hanging in the balconies. Little fresh air was soothing us and not letting us to move from there. We sat there for long night. Tourists started to move to their hotels and we too moved as feeling sleepy and tired. We all reached our room and laid in bed and slept while chatting little bit. We opened the windows and balcony door as fresh air was making the room cool and pleasant.

In the morning we woke up at 7 O’clock, we were all comfortable, relaxed and had plan for the whole day in our mind. One by one, we went through daily morning routine and got ready for our day plan. I walked to the balcony from where the sun shine on mountains was creating a kind of beauty we used to look on TV screen. Actually, we planned to stay at Mussoorie only and live a day life of freeness and enjoyment. The view everywhere at the place amazed us so much that we wished to have a home at such place. We also wished to have a hotel of our own for business purpose, we would imagine anything, our mind is full of wishes and dreams. So, we got ready with relaxing dresses, walked out of our room for some little light breakfast. The restaurants looked ready to welcome their customers because they know people there are used to visit restaurants for food, as it is their daily job to serve breakfast and other meals to tourists. We also saw a group of couples who were using some cooking instruments for preparing their breakfast at some far place. We visited at a small restaurant where we found few people having breakfast. We gathered at a vacant table and ordered our favourite items for breakfast. Breakfast is an essential food in the morning which is a most important part of day food. We, although feeling hungry for a light breakfast, sat at a restaurant. The main business of people living there looked tourism only. Their earing module of life is tourism. People at most part of the tourist places at high altitudes depend on tourism business. We had breakfast soon and moved out for some planning for a picnic spot. It was a nice breakfast.

We went at the hotel room and conversated for some whole day work out. We searched some sightseeing places on net and selected one to visit and have lunch there. We sat in the room, spent some time, felt pleasing and again changed our dresses for further movement. Our program was to move into market and look for some local hilly products which we thought to use at our home place. There were shops of dress apparels, decorative articles, books shop, hilly region common daily usable home materials like kitchen items. We walked in the whole market, searched some unique items, had some local snacks, and later purchased some local dresses of hilly region. Dresses were colourful and attractive. That was Saturday and we wanted to spend the whole day out of hotel. We were just enjoying our free days out of station and it was one of the famous hill stations all around. We had plan for lunch at some place away from city crowd covered with trees all around. We were all excited and delighted for the forest like lunch. After roaming in market for some time, we returned to hotel room, laid for some time, watched some news, had some cold drink and light snacks we brought from market and relaxed. At around 12 noon, we all got ready for some interesting  open lunch place. We walked pleasantly out of hotel, picked our new car which we bought one week back, drove to the lunch spot. We got some of our favourite food dishes packed from a restaurant and slowly moved to our meal destination. All time spent was around one hour. Our car took us to the spot crossing the market, valley, forest road. That was not a secluded place, it was also not safe to be at a lonely spot. We found some tourists sitting far here and there spending peaceful charming time with friends and family. We looked for a separate place, spread bed sheet on the grassy ground. The area was full of trees and it was just a forest. Some people already were there and we came to know that we were not only the people fond of natural lunch spot. We sat on the sheet, enjoying the natural pure, clean, fresh air, compared the city and hilly life. After some 20 minutes, we all felt to have lunch and we opened the packed food. The opened food spread its delicious fragrance and we all mesmerized into it.

We were little hungry and the environment, although sunny, was pleasant and purely breathable, encouraging us to have food at that place. We started our meal while chatting in between about our daily routine and that day life. There were some squirrels wandering around, we offered little rice and chapatti to them, they expectedly accepted the offer. It seemed they were habitual of humans visit because they looked easy going with the human’s food offers. We had food interestingly, spent time there for about one and a half hour more. We didn’t have mood to leave that place. Other tourists also seemed with same mood. That place was inspiring us to build a nice beautiful home there. Tall trees all around, grassy ground, no pollution, clean environment in the afternoon, loving nature, birds chirping sound, all were so mesmerizing. After all, we had to leave for hotel room and we left that place with memories of that lovely place views and reached hotel at around 5pm.

We reached hotel in about 45 minutes. We stayed in hotel, laid in bed silently, reminding the beauty of the lunch spot and no one was talking anything. The moments we spent at the spot were appearing in front of our eyes. We kept laying in bed for some time. Then, we ordered for tea and waited for its delivery. It was 4 O’clock when we ordered tea and 4:45 when we finished it. We talked on some family matters and watched news. We spend 45 minutes while talking and planned for dinner out of hotel again. Although, there were food serving services available in hotel rooms but wanted to have food in market. We had to get fresh and we were planning also to leave for our home town for the next morning.  At nearby 8, we wished to have tea again, but could not go out, so ordered tea at the reception once more. In few minutes, tea was delivered and we all had tea. Just sitting and two of our members standing in the balcony, spending time in just thinking for daily routine jobs which were going to be started from monday. We discussed for dinner and wished to have light food. We got up, freshed our mood and walked out of hotel for some nice dinner again in some restaurant. We searched for some other restaurant, not a big one, a small and new for us. We walked around the street and found a small nice looking hotel having huts shaped tops over the tables. It was so interesting to see that lovely restaurant. Such food places we find on highways mostly. So, we waited for some minutes for a table for us to get vacant, and we hadn’t to wait for long. We occupied a table which got vacant just after we thought. Menu was delicious and we ordered few famous dishes of that place. It is wonderful to spend some time on holidays at some far distant place away from work place, as it soothes mind and soul. We had dinner with great interest because it was really a delicious food. After dinner and paying the payment, we slowly walked in the street and moved to our hotel. There was a big wide space in front of all hotels. Little far, there was valley and mountains after valley. We walked, sat in that part of area for enough time until we felt to go to bed. It was 12:30 am and we had plan to leave for our home town at about 7 am. We slowly moved to our hotel room, sat, laid and went to deep sleep.

It was morning 5:30 when we all woke up because we had to get ready and travel a long distance for our home. After getting free of all morning jobs, we all got ready and packed our luggage. It took little time and we all got ready to move at around 8:30. It was time to leave hotel. We paid the bill, said thanks at the reception, moved out of hotel, picked our car, and drove slowly out of Mussoorie. We enjoyed lot at the place and would return the next time as possible. Although,   there are many tourist places at hilly areas which are also very glamorous and beautiful. It is actually near and not at high altitude. It is very easy to reach here and it is very famous too. Now, we drove out of the hilly region, driving in the mountain road, reached at Dehradun after one and half an hour. We thought of having breakfast at some place on the way, but it was the time when we were feeling for having some snacks. It was around 11 O’clock when we were crossing Dehradun city. We purchased some snacks and cold drinks for the travel time because we planned to have lunch early at some restaurant on the highway. So, travelling in the car, having snacks and cold drinks, we crossed the hills of Dehradun and reached the land area. We were running on national highway in a limited speed and missing the holiday spot. The car was moving at its pace and we wanted to reach home on time. It would take around 8-9 hours to reach our home town. The road was wide and constructed good, no bumpy all the whole way. While travelled for about 2 hours regularly, we felt to have lunch at some small place. There were many little hotels on the way and we saw a nice looking hotel where people rush was also not so much. We decided to make a stop there and parked the car at the proper place. We sat for some 5 minutes, walked little bit in the near park, and ordered for lunch menu. Lunch dishes were delivered to us within 15-20 minutes as we expected. By then, we relaxed and chatted for tomorrows daily working schedule. We had lunch, made payment, moved to our car, started our journey again. Returning home was also a kind of some excitement and relaxation. We drove back to our home destination and felt lazy after lunch as it is instinctive for everyone after lunch.

Daily hectic schedule, stress, responsibilities leave impact on body and mind. Such holiday tours are very favourable for entertainment, refreshment and re-energy. If possible, one should make touring programs according to capacity and re-energise life and body for regular busy working schedule. We drove continuously for 3 hours and stopped the car in front of a tea and snacks shop. We were lazy, tired and wishing for tea. We ordered tea and waited for the delivery. We had the nice made tea, again started the car to drive towards our home. After driving for one hour, we saw the name board of our home town. We were delighted to see the board and our tiredness just extinguished. Now, just some time left to reach our home. We sat actively and looked at the market all around. Moving, we reached our street and then in front of our home. It’s a God blessing to have a home of own. The car stopped and we, one by one, came out and opened the house gate. We entered inside home, felt too much relaxed being at home. It is a natural satisfaction to be at home which can not be marked any where. We laid on sofa, bed and relaxed for some time. I prepared tea for all and talked about the tour. We were all happy and refreshed. Yes, remembering the beautiful and unforgettable scenes and views at the holiday spot, slowly, we moved to our home jobs and after dinner went to bed.