Malhotra's Bride ✔️

Chapter 28

Nandini pov

Next day getting up early and watching the beautiful scenario in the front made the day so good.Me and Manik came outside to see the college group was already there enjoying tea .We decided to get ready for another day filled with excitement.

Me with other two girls decided to go and have our baths.But one girl(Riya) went to the tent with her boyfriend for getting help to open her bag.After taking sometime both came.Looking at me Manik slightly nodded his head like saying that he is going with them and I too nodded my head like saying him Ok.

Three of us started walking and I noticed a love bite on the girl who came late from the tent.Aha now I get it why they took some time to come out.But looks like she hasn't  noticed and I didn't wanted to tease a girl whom I met yesterday. However I think that the other girl(Neha) too noticed the love bite.

'Riya what happened to your neck.There is something reddish' asked Neha.

That girl Riya stopped walking for a second and covering her neck with her hand she said 'I think it's a mosquito bite nothing else.'

'Really but there were no mosquitoes in our tent' again countered Neha.

Seeing them bikering I remembered Arya who would be always ready to fight with him.How I miss them like these moments.

'There were some of them right di ',Riya asked me  showing a puppy face so that I will say Yes.

'There were some but we didn't see any mosquito with six feet height' teasing her .
Listening to what I said she ran away covering her face leaving Me and Neha to laugh.

Aww..she is so cute, I thought seeing her shyness.

All of us were ready and had our breakfast and started our journey.

Starting from Sonmarg we  reached Drass Valley by visiting some other places like Vishansar lake,Nilagrad River and Gangabel.

To reach Dras we have to cross Zoji la pass which is known as one of the dangerous route in the world.

Hold me tight said Manik to me.

This really looks so dangerous Manik.

It's Ok you can trust my bike riding skills.

Did you used bike in your college days.

Yep we used bikes only  for college as it was not a Karan Johar movie where a rich kid comes with a BMW.

Laughing at his statement, I totally sticked to Manik.
Passing the valley and traveling we reached Dras .

Dras is known as coldest place in India and Second coldest place in world.

We stopped for a small break before we visit some places here.Dras River flows through the Dras and I can see some camps set there .Next we visited Bhimbet . People  say  that it is depiction of Bhim from the Epic Mahabharata.And people also say that the rock itself moved from the mountains to its present spot. It is also said that the soil around it has healing powers and I could some people are doing pooja there . There was Tiger Hill which connects Srinagar to Kargil and it is the high peak.It was subject of battle during Kargil War .

Next we  reached  Kargil War Memorial , which is situated at the base of Tololinh Hill, built by the Indian Army .The War Memorial has some major sequences of events that happened during the war along with the details of the Indian Army Personnels who sacrificed their lifes for the Country. We can also witness our tricolor flag waving high in the sky.back Great respect to the Indian Army along with their families .

Coming  from Kargil War Memorial I remembered Bade papa (Arya's Dad) who was also a Army Personnel . I still remembered the day he came surprising us and we fully enjoyed 10 days with him but when he was returning to camp where Badi ma was also there traveling in car to drop Bade papa  in bus stop.But both of them never returned again.
Wiping my tears secretly I sat behind Manik.

I am just worried for these people who were riding continuously.
Traveling we reached kargil after a check post.Then we reached Mulbek , stopping there we had our lunch.

Crossing Namik la pass and Fotu la,which is the highest point of Srinagar-Leh Highway.It was already past 4 by the time we reached Lamayaru Monastery . And Leh was still 120 Kms away.

We wanted to reach Leh before it's too dark.Manik was talking occasionally as his full concentration was on the road . Mountains on the both sides with blue sky in the middle sitting in the behind your hubby was totally a awesome moment to me.

And at last we reached Magnetic Hills , the place which I watched many times in travel vlogs. People say that the Magnetic force from the hills pulls the vehicles within its range.But some say that it is just an optical illusion so when we see a vehicle going up hill its actually going downhill.
From Magnetic Hill Leh is around 27 kms.
It was already past dinner time as we reached Leh Ladakh.

Reaching the hotel we all had our dinner and went to sleep .