Weekend Trip to Shimla

Gaurab Majumdar

Photographs: Author
Category: Featured Travel
Date of Publication: Mar 24 , 2012Vol-01 Issue-01

I couldn't define it as organized trip merely. It just happened due to appearing in a Govt. job examination. Apart from this I was eager to watch the enigmatic views of Himalayas. This wasn't the first time in Himalayas, because Eastern Himalayas in Sikkim is very well known to mine from my childhood. I'm fortunate enough to unveil the beauties of nature in different places of Himalayas, which makes distinct differences by itself. Certainly these differences could be visible to everyone's eye within tiny grasses, flowers, trees, cloud's and daylight. Apple trees in road side garden made me expression less and nothing more. One could relate itself by comparing the scenic beauties from old Hindi film of Swammi Kappor. So, it's a perfect destiny for mind to inhale the free green energy form nature. It's just heaven where you could be romantic as well as spiritual if you think. Within a short time frame I visited a list of good places around Shimla.

From Delhi it takes 9hr by bus to reach Shimla through Kalka. Although that wasn't my first preference, because I targeted to capture every moments profoundly within my small film camera. I traveled by train from Delhi to Kalka for whole night and reached at 4:30 am. Due to shortage of money I arrived in a general compartment of Kalka-Shimla Shivalik Express. To be funny it's just a Toy Train, taking a weigh of all most fifty passengers in between that tiny compartment. However I have struggled to manage a sit near window. Don't expect any good behavior around yourself. As a gang of four Punjabi guys made everyone's journey hectic. They are four but forcefully acquire ten general sits and one laid there already, weather most of the passenger's stand upon their feet!! By the way I prepared my camera and did the mindset cool to capture snaps of natural landscape. As the train was passing tunnels, bridges and making dashing curves on the adjacent mountain, we all forgot about that hectic moment. In each and every moment Himalayas surprised us, with reviling unimaginable natural secrets. There were a lot's of tunnels, out of them one was 1.5 Km long and took ten minutes to passing through. Yet I tried my best to capture some of these enigmatic views. It took 6hr to reach at Shimla hill station.............. :)