Rishikesh through my eyes

Day 1- Jaipur to Rishikesh

Troubling each other whole night, talking about absolute rubbish things overnight in a bus we finally reached Rishikesh after 11 hours. We had run away from the noise of a busy city and we found a place place far away from signal, Wifi and traffic and the most picturesque place to chill and eat maggi in. Now if I look back i wouldn't mind getting quarantined here for a few days. I'd love to get up to a beautiful sunrise and listen to the voice of river flowing. Camping has always been my favourite and Camp Wildex made my trip 100 times better.

Right behind this very peaceful place there is a river flowing which adds so much more to the place.

We are a bunch of energetic souls do you think we went off to rest after this? Definetly not. One of the guy on the campsite offered us to take us to a small hike to a waterfall. A walk in the woods between the nature, away from pollution why not?

Do you love dogs? I certainly do and i think they are the best buddies one can have!!

Day 2- River Rafting

Can any Rishikesh trip actually start without river rafting? Absolutely not. The morning of day 2 to started with my friends barging into the tent with gulaal in their hands and shouting holi hai!!! After making each other dirty with all the colours it was time for the most awaited adventure of the day for us and trust me after hours of rafting we didn't want to get out of the water.

So you might know how much sleepy one feels after getting out of the water and hungry too. So our day at the camp had come to an end and we finally got into the middle of the city and checked into a hostel: Gostops. It was one of the most picturesque hostel in the area and the hospitality, the ambiance just made our next 2 days very comfortable and after resting up we definetly needed some good food in our tummy to get back the energy so we decided to explore places and night life of Rishikesh on foot.

I always try finding the less touristy places of the city so that I can actually get to know the city. Rishikesh has its own charm when explored on foot and we decided to walk till The Beatles Ashram.

The Beatles' decision to study Transcendental Meditation in India brought international renown to the ashram and to Rishikesh. They stayed in the ashram for a brief period of time and it turned out to be the most productive time of their life and came up with really hit albums.

The day ended with hitchhiking back into the city and sitting on the ghats of the river Ganga, dipping our feet and witnessing a beautiful sunset.

Day 4: Can a trip end without any messed up adventure?

On the last day we had a good lunch in the Beatles cafe. Its a must visit place, the food there was one of the best i have ever had. We had no pre bookings for the bus back to Jaipur and guess what we didn't even get any at the moment. We college kids had to get back to our classes the next day and we were stuck there with no bus going back to Jaipur. We decided to take a local bus to Haridwar and after reaching there we only got a local non ac seater bus going to Jaipur via Mathura and trust me by the time I reached Jaipur my back dead :(

After all how can a trip be complete so smoothly? Thode mess ups toh chalte hai to remember the trip and laugh about it later.

Also, did I introduce to the fools who i have talked about in this whole blog?

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