Dehradoon/Mussoorie

Am in love with mountains and is proved by how much I have traveled in the snowy valleys. But that’s beyond the point. Mussoorie was our New Year destination. Few friends got together and decided every new year’ eve we shall all go out to some place and celebrate. That way we get to cut down our traveling costs and also meet up regularly. Dehradoon/Mussoorie was our first destination and reason being my friend has a house there, hotel cost eliminated! His aunt would cook for us, food cost down and he had a vehicle so commuting cost down!

We were supposed to board a fast train from Delhi but missed by a minute so we took a cab from Delhi to Dehradoon which took us around Rs. 1200. The drive was comfortable. We left Delhi around 12 in the noon and reached Dehradoon at midnight. It took us long because we stopped by at almost every eatery. My friend had reached before us and had prepared super hot food us and we had dinner and slept. Next morning was a pleasant surprise. The town was exactly like they show in the movies, like a hill station should be! Their house had a huge lawn n the front and mist had settled down on the grass. It was a lazy morning as obviously it was winter. We could sense the lousiness in the air to get rid of it we walked around the town to get a hang of it. We relaxed totally for a day in Dehradoon and saw nothing!

Next day we left for Mussoorie by local state transport bus. It was the ride of my life more thrilling than a roller coaster. We were unfortunately on the last seat of the bus and we jumped sky high everytime the bus hit a bump on the road. Everything we ate that morning was getting mixed in our stomach and boy what a ride it was. We had changed 5 seats automatically and when the bus stopped for a loo break we were all piled on top of each other. The valley is very-very steep and roads were curvy enough to put any curvious thing to shame. We were all relieved when the bus finally reached Mussoorie. It looks like it’s based on the tip of a hill because everything outside of it is Hills and when you look down you can see Dehradoon. It had also snowed a bit in here and we could see scanty snow dumps here and there. Was a lot to excite my friend who saw snow for the first time and I could remember how foolish I must have looked in Manali. We took up room in a hotel for Rs. 1200 and four of us shared the room. There are plenty of cheaper options but its better to spend a bit more and live comfortably. All we did for 2 days was roam around the Mall road, observe people, shop eat and drink. The second day we went to this peak in a cable car which is approximately 7000 ft above sea level and it wasn’t amusing because you could naturally see all of the valley. But then Mussoorie was definitely more scenic than I thought and much more romantic than Nainital. Mussoorie would surely rate 4 out of 5 on my list.