Feb 03, 2010 04:07 PM
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This year it was our Ivory marriage anniversary on 24th of Jan, I made plan to visit there us. I booked inventory with club mahindra. That is snow peak resort village Prini Manali for three nights, initially I got booking only for two nights because of non availability, but at last moment, third night was also confirmed. Other wise there was off season at Manali. You can get 50 to 60% discount in all hotels & resorts during this time.
I like self driving; I started my journey around 3 pm on 22 Jan. I took route as follow- Delhi (my home is on border of Delhi on NH; Narela) Panipat –Karnal-Ambala-Banur-Kharar-Roper – Kiratpur Sahib- Swarghat-Bilaspur-Sunder Nagar-Mandi-Pandoh-Aut-Bhunter-Kullu Bypass-Nagar –Pirni (it is 3 km before Manali, my resort is in this village) it is 532 km from my place.
There are few key points in my route-
I did not go Chandigarh to avoid mess of it. After Ambala there is two route one goes to Chandigarh, other continue with NH 1 to Jalander, I proceed on NH1, after 12 km from Ambala there is toll bridge, just 50 mts before that (you can see toll bridge from here) there is right turn it will carry you to banur after taking 18 km, here is crossing one road goes to Rajpura, other toward Chandigarh third one toward Kharar (that is straight).I took this road at Kharar I hits on NH 21 which took me to Roper.
After kullu there are two routes first one is Main manali road for that you have to cross over bridge, Main manali road is wider, straighter but it contain slightly more traffic, Other road is Nagar road, for it you should go straight don’t climb on over bridge this road is also good, no traffic but it is slightly zigzag. but by this route you can visit Nagar here is scenic beauty, three more places to visit here one is Rorick art gallery it is worth to visit it, second on is Castle it is favorite in bollywood for shooting you can enjoy a sips of coffee in balcony of it & watch the scenic beauty of Nagar, third one is 13 km from Nagar that is Jaana water fall this road is very scenic, although narrow but you can drive quite easily. At fall you park your car then there is trekking of 10 mts on hill to watch triple water fall. Here you can enjoy local himachali food it contain red rice, rajma, kadi, poodina chatni, & makki ki roti it is nice food. From nagar to manali is around 18 km, that is straight road I took this route because CM resort is on this road.
Whole road from Delhi to Manali is very good, winding roads are for just 100 km from swarghat to sunder nagger. Still winding are not so acute.
I had read about this club mahindra resort that is smaller one &it does not have kitchenette, but it is changed now , although resort is smaller , but comfortable, location is good, good kitchenette was there, here no studio apartments only 1 BR & 2 BR is available. At resort staff is good, they greeted us nicely & provided us nice room which had nice view. It was one BR accommodation, having one bed room & one common room. Common room was furnished with small kitchenette having microwave, toaster, fridge, a small snack bar (chargeable), tea kettle with teabag whitener etc; sofa cum double bed, dining table; TV with cable connection.
Whole resort was centrally heated, very comfortable, a fun zone having TT table, carom, music system & few chargeable games. These things are common in all resorts of club mahindra; my personal opinion is that few more amenities should be added in fun zone for complementary basis. There was small gym, one massage centre & a small park for kids containing swings.
Here was only one restaurant named orchid. It has buffet system; it is little costly further food was tasteless. We used it for one day only.
at manaliyou should visit- Manali mall, Hidimba temple &Club house mannu temple& dont forget to visit old manali. Solang Valley, snow point, Dundi, rotang pass . At manali market, opposite bus stand there are two eateries chopstick & Mountain View. Both are very good, we took chicken sizzler & crispy chicken honey at Mountain View both are mouth watering preparations, you should try it. Other good eateries are Johnson café near mall & Apple blossom at Old Manali. We had few adventure sports like rock climbing, rappelling, & river crossing just near resort, for this trainer was called by in-charge of fun zone club mahindra, these was chargeable 250/- per sport per person. After that we went to Nagger & Janna water fall.
It was nice holiday-good destination, comfortable resort and nice food at mall.
My advices:
You can visit few more scenic places in the way like Rawalser Lake, Paraser Lake. But for that you require planning for that. – Rawalser lake is 18 km from Nerchouk; this is just after Sunder Nagar. A hotel of tourism is also here. Paraser lake is very beautiful place to visit .there is diversion from Mandi for it .from paraser lake you go directly to Bajora which is near to Kullu. So route is like this Mandi-Paraser Lake- Kundi- Bajora – Bhunter.
You can plan it for two ways
(A) .you start journey little early like 2pm from Delhi & do night stay at sunder nagar /rawalser lake/or Mandi. Next day you can visit first paraser lake then through Bajora go to Bhunter
(B) You start journey around 5 am from Manali during back & divert your route from Bajora to Paraser Lake. And come back via mandi.
