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Braving the extreme cold weather, we are progressing towards the temple. I can spot a few slabs of snow on our way. As I looked at my mobile to know the current temperature, I was just amazed. It was 12 in the noon, and accuweather app in my mobile showing a temperature of 2 degrees. Not surprising though, when you consider the day we are here, 30 th December. In the past years, people couldn’t even think of coming here as the road would get closed due to snowfall. This year, since it snowed less, we had a better luck. I think, in this point of time you will be eager to know which place I am talking about. It is Bharmour, which is located at an altitude of 7,000 feet above sea level. Yesterday, well past afternoon, we reached Chamba seeing Jot Pass. Located on the banks of River Ravi at an altitude of just around 3,000 feet above sea level, it was the capital of local Rajput ruler Sahil Varma. He shifted his capital from Bharmour to Chamba in 920 AD. The name of the town Ch...

As Madanji parked the Xylo, I was dumbfounded. I was actually not ready to believe what I’m seeing in front of me. A layer of ice ! We risked touring Himachal Pradesh in this extreme winter in order to see this snow only. Finally we are experiencing it. As I stepped down from the car, I was even more awestruck. The snow-covered Himalayan ranges were almost calling me. No, these are not the Dhauladhar, they are the pirpanjal ranges of Kashmir. We finally got to know the surprise which Madanji was talking about. It was totally an ‘out-of-syllabus’ destination for us. Let me first explain the fact that why I called it as ‘out-of-syllabus’ destination? Whenever we go out for a tour, we try to know about those places by reading guide books and also taking notes, if necessary. So when we reach that particular place, we don’t find to be totally an unknown one. We feel as if we have just read about it a while ago. But the place where we are now, the Jot Pass, is t...

An extremely cold weather engulfed as I opened the door of the car. As of now, we are facing the heaviest burst of cold in this tour. The sky is cloudy. To make matters worse, an unbearable cold wind is also blowing. But this was not the case just an hour back. We were sweating like hell then. But the sweating was not abnormal. Be it December or any month of the year, you are bound to be tired if you climb the Kangra Fort. We are currently in Naddi. Not many people know Naddi. For them, I’m giving a brief description. We all know that Macleodganj is located above Dharamshala. Naddi is located above Macleodganj as well. It has an average elevation of 7,000 feet above sea level. As a result it bound to be much colder than the other places. But Kangra Fort is located in Kangra town which is just around 2,000 feet. So we were feeling such warm. When we started our journey from Palampur in the morning, the sky was so cloudy that we became very hopeful of a snowfall. In fact M...