Weekend Getaway To Rishikesh

“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ~ Bill Watterson“

Last weekend I got an opportunity to accompany a group on weekend getaway to Rishikesh which was organized by Hippy Traveller.

Day 1

I reached Kashmere Gate Metro station at 22:00 hrs Mayank from Hippy Travellers was waiting at gate no. 7 slowly the other guests started arriving at 22:45 hrs we had a roll call and found one extra guest as the tempo traveler to take us to Rishikesh was 18 seat we made all the guest comfortable and saw them off to Rishikesh.

Me and Mayank followed them on our sports bike. It was my first experience of long distance biking in the night.

Day 2

Early in the morning we reached Haridwar and saw preparation for morning ‘Aarti’ and had morning tea at the ghats.

After the tea we drove off to campsite at Shivpuri and reached there by 07:30 am. At campsite we relaxed ourselves and got fresh ‘n’ up and had our breakfast.

We checked into our camps as our rafting was scheduled to 13:00 pm so we passed our time by relaxing and swimming. Around 12:30 we gathered for rafting and drove to riverside by our tempo traveler.

Everyone got ready  for rafting and took selfies as memory. Mayank joined the group as he had good experience with rafting.

It was 16km raft and took around 3 hrs to complete. Around 16:00 rafting was completed everyone had Maggie and snacks and drove back to campsite by our tempo traveler for lunch and changing clothes.

Blue is the color of peace. Water is blue. I like the color blue because it just puts me at peace. The patriotic symbol is blue. I just like blue. –Antonio Brown

We enjoyed the delicious buffet and around 17:30 went for  sightseeing at White Sand Beach. It was a beautiful sunset with blue transparent water (Ganges).

We returned to our camps at 19:30 and had our evening snacks and enjoyed dance at dance floor under starry sky. We had our dinner at 22:00 and after a small walk we hit the sack.

Day 3

After wishing everyone Good Morning . We packed our luggage , had breakfast and checked out. We drove towards Neergarh Waterfall.

To reach the waterfall we had to track through hills for 30 minutes and on reaching we enjoyed a swim.

After spending an hour we drove down to Rishikesh for our lunch and shopping and at around 14:00 hrs we started our return journey to Delhi.

I’m learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company. ~ Zoe Saldana