Auli: The wonderland winterwonderland

I have listen from many people that Auli is so beautiful...and blah..blah..blah so.

Therefore, I decided to go to Auli. So I left for Rishikesh, took the bus from Kashmiri gate (Bus was pre-booked). I reached Rishikesh at 06:30 AM, then I picked an auto rickshaw and arrived at the bus stand. After having some refreshments, I took the bus for Joshimath which was leaving at 7:00 AM. There are very less buses on this route. All the buses leave early. After 3-4 hours, driver stopped the bus on a small dhaba where they were serving aalu stuffed paratha. The paratha was so yummy. After a beautiful and a tiring journey in the beautiful valley of Himalayas, I reached the Joshimath at night at 9:00 PM approx.

Photo of Auli: The wonderland #winterwonderland 2/6 by Shivam Mittal — Auli-Joshimath Ropeway

Only few of the restaurants were open there, everything was closed. So I started searching Hotels their. There were few people at the bus stop, they are asking for hotel rooms. So I went with one of them, the room was too small. So I decided to search the hotel by self. I found a good hotel few meters ahead from the bus stop. The hotel was in front of the mount elephant. I booked a decent room only at 600 Rs per night. I was so excited to wake up early and see the view outside my window.

Photo of Auli: The wonderland #winterwonderland 3/6 by Shivam Mittal — View from my room

After a long journey, finally I found a comfy bed. I wake up around 7:00 AM, and prepared myself for Auli. When I came outside my Hotel room, I was so amazed after seeing the beauty. I reached the ropeway ticket counter from there, I get to know the rope way was closed for 3 days because of maintenance work, that was my bad luck.

Photo of Auli: The wonderland #winterwonderland 4/6 by Shivam Mittal — Auli lake covered with snow

There were some taxi drivers who were going towards Auli. After some struggle, I found a group of 3 boys and joined them. The road was fully covered with the snow. We were going in a gypsy which is usually used by police. We reached Auli in about an hour.

Auli is really a winter wonderland. I can't define the beauty of the view, you should go to Auli atleast once in your lifetime. I took the cable car to reach the top. It was snowing and everything was covered in snow, and it felt like I am standing in the Heaven.

I had tried Skiing for the first time in my life. It's not an easy task at all but I enjoyed it a lot. After enjoying a great deal of time in the wonderland, we finally came back to the dropping location of our gypsy around 4 pm.

Photo of Auli: The wonderland #winterwonderland 5/6 by Shivam Mittal

Taxi driver left us at bus stand. After saying goodbye to everyone and bringing some amazing stories and memories back, I came back from wonderland. But I will never forget that beauty.