If You Are a Nature Lover, You Should Once Experience the Colours of Autumn in the Himalayas.

It was late September, I went to visit Kashmir. While hopping the Mughal Gardens in Srinagar, I spot a Chinar tree in Nishat Bag whose foliage started getting some golden yellow colour. Although it looked lovely but I didn’t much get into it.

On the same trip, I was on my way from Sonmarg to Gulmarg. The cab was speedily down the winding road of Gulmarg while I was enjoying the outside views through the cab window. Suddenly my eyes caught a roadside beauty standing alone in the middle of greenery. The entire tree got the vibrant color of reddish golden yellow and it looked awesome. I got a click from the moving car. That was my first glimpse of fall foliage.

A few years after, it was the third last day of October while I was traveling to Rohtang Pass from Manali. Himachal Pradesh. The day was cloudy and chill. We got to know that it was snowing at the Rohtang top. So, we all were excited and in a hurry to experience the snowfall. The cab was moving fast as the road was almost empty. Little did I know what awaited us on the road! A couple of hours into the journey, we found that the trees on either side of the road bursting with flaming shades of red, yellow and golden brown. The beauty of this narrow stretch couldn't be described in words. It seemed we were going through a fairyland. It was sheer luck, I sat next to the driver, that’s why I could able to capture a few snaps from the fast-moving cab.

I undertook Har-ki-Doon trek, Uttarakhand in late October. The Base Camp of this trek is Sankri, a tiny village around 200 km from Dehradun. The trek starts from Taluka, a 12 km away from the Base Camp. On the first day of the trek, while we were having our lunch by a stream, I found some foliage around started changing colour. The combination of green and yellow looked beautiful. I had expected to witness some more fall foliage on our way back from the valley as it would be the first week of November. And I experienced much more that I had expected. On our way back, we spotted the trees, creepers, ferns everything took the magnificent autumn hue throughout from Seema to Taluka. The entire stretch became a treat to the eyes. It seemed we were going through the wonderland. The view was phenomenal.

I have been in Shillong, Meghalaya in the middle of November. We were staying in a hotel at Police Bazar. In the afternoon, I ventured out nearby ward's Lake. While boating I noticed some of the trees on the bank of the lake got the golden yellow color and dazzling on the rays of setting sun.

I went to Sikkim in the the middle of October. We were going down the precipitous road towards Old Baba Mandir at an altitude of 13000 feet. Suddenly I saw at a distance some roadside shrubs took the crimson brown colour and I clicked this pic.