Our Trip to Northern India -II
The next day early morning we packed our bags and set out to Mussorie. It was dead cold outside. I have never experienced the winter of Northern India. Now I know how it feels :).

The total time of journey from Roodkee to Mussorie is supposed to be 4 hours. But unknowingly we had booked tickets in a passenger train. Had I walked from Roodkee, I would definitely have reached earlier than the train. We started at 6.30 in the morning train and reached Dehradun( The state capital of Uttaranchal) at 3.30 in the afternoon. Even the railway authorities would not have discovered some stations but our train driver did ;). None of the stations had anything edible to eat except for hot tea in matkas (mud cups) and Kurkure which made us survive the cold and hunger.

From Dehradun, Mussorie is a 30 kms drive up the hill. It was a nice journey up the hill except for the fact that our taxi got punctured in the middle. :) We found our hotel dumped our luggage and were too tired and more than that verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry hungry. When asked for the nearest hotel they said, it’s just a stones throw away. So with some hope of getting good food at 5 in the evening we started walking up the hill to a place called “Mall Road” the centre place in Musoorie (You could imagine this to be the MG Road of Bangalore). Finally after 1.5 to 2 kms(which is a stones throw ;)) walk we could find the road.



The “Mall Road” is a small road of about 1 km in length with small shops and hotels and a nice place to have a view of the “Doon Valley” below. The smell of hot paranthas was inviting us and we plunged upon them. :)

It was only 6 in the evening and the sun had already set and it was too dark that we could barely see anything. All the road side shops were getting closed and the breeze was getting colder and colder giving us signs that we should retire for the day.