Kanyakumari-Kashmir Round trip - Day 21 - Chandigarh

Day 21 - Chandigarh (stay in Chandigarh)

Kilometers covered - 60 KMs

Walking - 6000+ steps

After 2 days of continuous driving, we decided to rest in Chandigarh with a bit of local site-seeing. Got up late - around 7.30 AM and washed the clothes - the terrace was super spacious and had lot of clothelines :) Had complimentary breakfast - aloo paratha, bread toast & tea. Spent more time on youtube music (thanks to the smart TV in Hotel Yolo)

We gave the puliyogare and asked him to prepare rice and vegetable fry for lunch. We asked them to cook for all the hotel staff (a cook, a helper and the manager) All of us had puliyogare, curd rice and vegetables for lunch :) It was a bit spicy for them, however they enjoyed the food. 

We started around 3 PM after arranging the clothes back into the bag. Fuelled the car at Deepak Mittal IOCL filling station, Chandigarh. 

Manasa Mata Mandir is one of the famous temple in Chandigarh and we had a peaceful darshan - followed by lemon soda




Rock Garden was the next spot and police caught us near the garden, fined us for using tinted glass - which is debated with no clear-cut rule on what's the permissible opacity. You need lot of patience and stamina to commute within the garden. It's very vast and has lot of sections within it. I really loved the Jhula (swing) section where everyone including adults were waiting in queue to experience a swing ride - :)












We stopped our vehicle in rock garden parking lot and took a tuk-tuk ride to Sukhna lake. It was too crowded, we were about to have some chaat - it started raining heavily and the entire crowd got settled in and around the shops in the campus. Hence, orders started pouring-in for the chaat counter. We ordered bhel puri, tikki chaat & papdi chaat. We then had mosambi juice & mango juice (fresh juice counter)





Another tuk-tuk dropped us in parking lot - we reached Hotel Yolo by around 7.30 PM. I walked and bought few fruits for dinner (apple, mango, grapes) - a very simple and local day :)

How come a movie buff spend 23 days without watching a movie? Smart TV - used the amazon login and watched "Custody"movie - Naga Chaitanya starrer directed by Venkat Prabhu. A bad watch indeed - pure logicless tollywood masala :( I have a bad habit of complete watching of a move irrespective good, bad or ugly. Hence, didn't change the movie or didn't switch off the TV. Watched it fully wth guts and style - lolz... Good night

Luv,

Krishna & Mahadevan

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