Fastest Trip to Nainital

Last weekend out of boredom me and my sardar room mate decided to go to Nainital, Ranikhet and Almorah. I though was dead against going to a Hill Station during the season for the fear of not getting any accomodation. But still started by 5:00 AM in the Saturday morning none of us knew the route but still vaguely i remembered the Morodabad, Haldwani and Kathogodagam as i had been to nainital with my friends already. We took two greatest risks one is that we didnt book any accomodation prior and second my car had an punctured stepni.

Quite astonishingly the road was good though single lane, so we reached Haldwani by 10 AM which is some 250 KM away. From there the mountain route starts. There is a by pass now which doesnt even go via Kathgodam. From Kathgodam it is 35 KM to Nainital. There were only 2 or 3 U bends at maximum not so steep like Ooty. After reaching Nainital by 11:30 AM we found to our horror that there were no rooms available, those available were highly priced(a Rs. 200 room costed Rs. 3000).

So parked the car in the car parking and we both decided to sleep inside the car for the night....and we wasted an entire day searching around the Naini lake for accomodation. Since we both were tired we had a comfortable sleep inside the car(actually more than comfortable staying in the room which were stinky), took a bath in the Gurudwara near the parking lot. So on Sunday only were free to roam around.. This time the sky was very clear so decided to see the Nanda Devi by going on the rope rail(we couldnt view it last time)...oh man it was wonder full. Returning back we took a boat ride for an hour....at that time we recieved a call from our third room mate that he didnt visit the home at all on the friday night and has gone to his native place. We hadnt locked our house as we thought that this guy was sleeping inside. Now nobody could have driven so faster than me in that mountains inspite of seeing an Alto car in the front falling into the slopes in one of the curves. We started by 3:30 in the evening and with fully traffic we reached home by 8:00 thats the kinda speed we were doing.

Fortunately our servant maid had locked the house with her own lock and given the keys to the security as she had come to clean the house and found that there was no one inside. Oh man this was the most riskiest and adventurous trip(no accomodation, no Spare Tyre the entire trip, and finally house is not locked) we had though with total mis management.

Still managed to pose for some pics .....