Nainital offers many places to
visit like Naini Lake, Naina Devi Temple, Bhimtal , Sattal, Cave garden, Lovers
point etc. And it also offers activity to do such as boating, cable car riding,
Paragliding, horse riding etc. So it is not easy to explore Nainital in a
single day. You need at least two to three days to explore.
In our visit to Nainital, we had
two days in our hand and we planned accordingly. So, we decided to explore
nearby place on the first day and faraway places on the next day. So this was the plan.
So let’s explore….
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| Naina Devi Temple |
First day in Nainital. It was around 9 o’clock in the morning, me
and my friends had our breakfast and we out to explore the beauty of Nainital. As
we came out of our stay, first thing we had done was clicking pictures (as we
all do) and we clicked pictures in different pose and in different angle but
the images came out were not so good as we were not professional, so I am not
going to share all those images. After that we went to Naina devi temple which
is situated on the bank of Naini lake. View of Naini Lake from the Temple area
was beautiful. We spent some time in the peaceful environment of temple. After
spending some time over there we went to have our breakfast and than to Cave Garden which was about 2km distance
from the Naina Devi temple.
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| Cave |
After reaching Cave garden we
took entry tickets and moved inside. There are number of small caves inside
cave garden. So we entered almost all the caves and literally some of them were
very dangerous but adventures. Caves were not for the kids and old persons but
they can roam around the cave garden.
After having cave experience we tried zip
line (shorter) and also there was a mechanical bull which was unfortunately
closed on that day so we couldn’t try it. There is a view point where we clicked some pictures. Over all it was a good experience at Cave Garden.
After cave garden we headed
towards Lovers point which was further 2 km away from cave Garden. There I did nothing as there was only activity to do was horse riding and I was not
interested to ride horse, So none of us tried it and we came back to Nainital town.
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| View from Cable car |
Then we decided to take cable car
ride and its boarding point was at few distance away from the Mall road (Nainital town). We
reached at the boarding point, took our tickets and waited for like half an
hour for our chance to come. Finally our chance came and we boarded in the
cable car. It took us at the top of the hill and we just mesmerized by the view
which we got to see from the hill top i.e. the view of Nainital city and the
Naini Lake in the centre. There we ate noodles and spent good time. Then we
came back to mall road through the ropeway only. And this time we were very
hungry.
We four hungry people were on the
hunt of restaurant. There were lots of eateries in mall road and we got one and
had a healthy lunch. We became very energetic after having lunch, and thought
of doing boating, so we went for boating at Naini Lake. We had done boating
around half an hour and spent the evening by seating in the bank of Naini Lake
to watch beautiful sunset. As sun went down, we back to our hotel and we took
rest for around 2 hrs.
Woke up around 8 o’clock in the
evening and we headed for dinner and it was damn cold outside. Done nothing much,
had our dinner and just walked through the tranquil and empty road beside the
Naini lake having cup of coffee in our hand. And it was a beautiful feeling.
Naini lake was looking spectacular in the night as the lights were reflecting
on the surface of the water. It was like portrait, black background with
colourful dots. So after that we back to our room and so to bed.
2nd and last day in Nainital. We had decided
to wake up early in the morning to witness the sun rise but we couldn’t make it,
because of our laziness. Unfortunately we woke up after sun rise and we missed
the sunrise. So after that we finished our morning work. Had cup of tea and now
we all set to explore faraway places as we had decided earlier. Our first
destination was Himalaya Mountains view point which is approx 9km away from
Nainital. There were nothing much to do but the scenic view was amazing. We
went there and spent some time and got ready for next destination.
While we were heading towards our
2nd destination, we got to see lots of beautiful places, roads were
full of greenery and surrounded by mountains. And we were heading very slowly
as we wanted to enjoy every moments of the journey. So we were stopping where
we wanted to stop. We stopped at a place and had our breakfast. In breakfast we ordered Chapati
(Aloo ke Paratha with achaar (yumeeeee)),
pickle and tea. There we done heavy breakfast and we moved on. Now we were about
to reach Sattal, our 2nd destination and it is around 22 km away
from Nainital.
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| Sattal |
So we reached Sattal, parked our
car and went inside. First thing I saw, there were lots of eateries and as we walked further I saw a beautiful lake. We didn’t do anything much; we just walked
around, witness the beautiful view and spent some quality time over there.
We came out of Sattal and headed
towards Bhimtal, it took around 1 hour to reach Bhimtal. Bhimtal Lake is quite
big and it was crowded. There was some parking issue so we didn’t stop for much
time, we just clicked some pictures and moved on. Now it was the time to leave
for Noida.
After spending good time in
Nainital, it was the time for us to leave for Noida. So we headed towards Noida
with lots of memories in our heart. We went through Kathgodam (Nearest Railway
station to Nainital) route. Roads were beautiful as we got to see lots of greenery
in both side of the road and lots of good thoughts were going on my mind about
Nainital, so it was fun. And after a long journey we finally reached Noida in the evening.
And that’s how my journey completed.
That’s it for the post; meet you in the next one.
THANK YOU
