I am Ravi Santhalia and i love to travel in india because I have learned to appreciate the simple things in life.The beauty of India lies in the spontaneous, un-manicured experiences you get while travelling.

1. Ravi Santhalia Dalhousie & Khajjiar Tour
My name is Ravi Santhalia and I began travelling almost ten years ago. I started writing
blogs simply to share my travel experiences with the hope to inspire people to start
travelling too. As a traveler I love travel in India because…I have learned to appreciate
the simple things in life and it is a land of a billion smiles. Only in India.
We started our Journey in the afternoon so we plan for night stay at Chandigarh. we
reached Chandigarh at 7.00 P.M in the evening so we were having enough time to visit
the famous Mansa devi temple. its an awesome place with such a peace. On the next
day we started early in the morning for our journey towards Dalhousie. it took almost 7hr
to reach to Dalhousie from Chandigarh. The road is pretty good if you follow the
Hoshiarpur-Pathankot-Dalhousie route.
We reached Dalhousie at 3.00 PM & straight went to our guest house to have some
rest. The location of the guest house was awesome & it was surrounded by thick trees
& was on the tip of the mountain. The weather was soothing with cool healthy air which
you will never experience in Surat.
Our guest house was near to Subash Chowk & we decided to visit the St. Francis
Church at Subhash Chowk that evening. One will love the architectural beauty of the
church. It’s a very old church built by the English men early 19th century.
Then we decided to walk till Gandhi chowk which was around 2 Km. we loved each & every
moment of the walk which was full of ecstatic natural beauty. I have never seen such a beautiful
mountain views in my life before.
We wake up at around 6.00 in the morning & decide to just have a good stroll in the
morning to adore the natural beauty. We walked around 1 Km on the 8 when we saw
one young child coming from the village which was far away in the deep in the
mountain. We were very impressed with the young child & decided to track that
dangerous route till his village. There was no pathway for the complete track so it was
full of danger & excitement.
We planned to visit Khajjiar. Then we started our journey towards Khajjiar. It is the most exotic
and scenic beauty place around 22 Km from Dalhousie. Khajjiar is officially proclaimed the mini-
Switzerland of India. At an altitude of 6450 ft, this saucer shaped green meadow, ringed by
Devadar Trees has a lake in the middle complete with floating island. I liked horseback riding
and strolling. It’s the best place to spend more time as compare to the other places. We spent
around 2 hrs & enjoyed Horse riding there.
At around 5 p.M we started our journey back to Chandigarh. We took another route
which goes directly to pathankot & is shorter in distance. The road was Ok but it was too
narrow so only a experience driver should follow that path. The traffic at this road is very

2. less & the scenic beauty is ultimate along the whole route which compensate for the
narrow road.
At midnight we reached at Chandigarh & have a great sleep. Next day we left for New
Delhi & have a great drive till Delhi.
It was one of the most memorable trip I have ever been too.