My first trip that made me a Travel addict

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I’m born and brought up in a small city Jalpaiguri of North Bengal. So I felt myself always close to the mountains.

After getting a govt. job, my girls’ gang planned a short trip to Rishyap… which is a famous tourist spot of North Bengal. We booked hotel Sonar Bangla for 12th May, 2017. We took almost a week to book the hotel and arrange a car for our whole trip.

On that day we started from Jalpaiguri at 9.45 a.m. and had some breakfast at Lataguri.

Fagu Monastery, also known as Dipamkara Stupa, is one of the most attractive spots of Gorubathan.

There is a pavement that leads towards the top of the area, where a ‘Machan’ is made to enjoy the 360 degree view of the place. This view point is famous for sunset, sunrise and wide range of Kanchanjangha.

But we were not so lucky to get the view of Sleeping Buddha that day due to cloudy sky. Here we took our lunch and started for Lava.

From the monastery beautiful dwellings can be observed on the slopes of the hills.

This area is higher even than Darjeeling, so it is covered with fog most of the time in a day. But when the clouds disperse, one can see the mesmerizing range of the Kanchanjungha.

There is a long balcony at the backside of the hotel, from where one can enjoy the hide-and-seek of figs and clouds all the day.

After having some snacks we went for a walk to see the nearby scenic beauty. This is the highest point of the area. On one side of the narrow hilly road lays dwellings and a cliff on the other. As the slope of the road is downward, it’s easy to go down but hard to come back.

It started drizzling soon after we went for the walk, though there was no need of umbrella. There was a gentle tranquility everywhere in the surrounding area. Birds’ chirping was coming from the far.

After getting back to our room,we took a nap. We were served fresh chicken curry, roti, sabji and rice in dinner. In hill areas 10 p.m. is considered as late night. As our target was to enjoy the sunrise, we went to bed early.

Next morning, when the first ray of the sun was seen peeping from the clouds, we hurriedly came to the lawn to enjoy the sunrise.

This was an unforgettable experience… an amazing feeling… a different kind of adventure. Though we didn’t get the full view due to cloudy sky, it was still much precious what we got.

After visualising an amazing (to us) sunrise, we were waiting to see the Sleeping Buddha. It was almost more than an hour we waited to see Kanchanjungha. But here too, the clouds played the role of the villain. Whatever we got to see, we captured it by zooming in our mobile cameras. Though we didn’t get an amazing view of the Kanchanjungha, but it was still enough.

After all these, we got back to our room, had our breakfast and then took a nap.

At 09:45 a.m. we checked out from our hotel and started for Dealo.

before entering the park, there is an arrangement of paragliding and inside the park one can enjoy horse riding.

Over 1,500 species of cactus can be found here, which made this the biggest cactus archive of Asia. There are various species of cactus under some green house sheds.

This was the last destination of our trip. After visiting this, we had our lunch in a nearby local hotel and then started for home.