The Unexpected Experience in Manali (Old Manali) in COVID-19 || Travelling Bot Blogs

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Negativity always comes with a hidden message that to bounce back with positivity. Amidst all these situations (covid-19) globally. We, a group of four friends decided to plan a trip.

As somewhere I have read, “Roads have all the answers”. And as an individual, In all this negativity spread around us, I need to find some positive answers for myself.

Going on a road trip with your friends is almost everyone’s dream. And I found myself lucky enough to live that dream.

We decided to go to Manali. It was the last week of December and we were very certain that we will be getting a huge crowd.

Therefore, we decided to visit a less explored place in Manali i.e., Old Manali. As it was New Year's eve, we want to do prior bookings before reaching there. We book a hotel for three days.

We started our journey at Night from Delhi and by morning we enter Manali. We are having our car, which makes us less tired on the journey.

And somewhere you all know, when you reach the destination, all journey tiredness is gone. The same happens with us when we start to see the snow-covered mountains, beautiful valleys. And mountains have a different ambiance especially in Manali and you feel that once you reach there.

But as we reached early in the morning, we have to spend 5 hours before we get our rooms.

A thing that all of us (who visited mountains) witness, time in mountains flies quickly. It seems like you are a part of that scene and you just see beautiful time-lapses created by nature.

When you see those scenes, you feel like you belong here and you can live your entire life in these mountains.

The same thing happened with us and we spent our five hours like we spent only one hour.

We done all the things that were part of our itinerary and still had one last night left in Manali for this trip and we decided to go to a café.

We visited the café, it has around 15-20 people (due to covid). In our single view, we could see a group of girls, a family, and a couple. We decided to sit in the backside so that nobody feels awkward as we have plans to consume alcohol.

A live band was performing there and was singing some of the best songs of friendship.

We were having our food and alcohol and suddenly, a girl from the group starts to dance and sooner all the girls start dancing.

It was 10 pm and it was the time to close the café but to our luck, the café manager allows all of us to sit and enjoy the evening.

The girls were waving hands and asking everyone sitting in the café to join them on the dance floor.

In the span of 2-3 minutes, all the people are on the floor and dancing except four of us.

One girl from the group come to us and push us like she is our friend or knowing us for a long time.

As we have consumed alcohol, we four were dancing separately to avoid any inconvenience to anyone on the floor.

Then an uncle from the family came to us and said those words which mark an impact on my mind.

“It’s only one life, live it happily and cheerfully, things like covid will come and go, but need not lose positivity inside you. Now come and dance with us and never feel shy to dance.”

We all started to dance in a group like a family.

It was 11:10 pm and the manager asks us to go to our places as it's too late now.

We all are feeling like this is not the right ending to this night and suddenly from nowhere uncle threw his mask in the air and after that, each one of us threw our masks in the air too.

It feels like a graduation ceremony where students threw their hats in the air.

In my heart, I was feeling that we defeat corona.

We all strangers are taking pictures in groups without knowing each other and at that moment I realized, it is a true family i.e., HUMANITY.

It seems to be like a perfect ending to the night and it fulfilled the motto of the trip, to find positivity for ourselves.

We went back to our hotel and leave for Delhi in the morning.

PS: After throwing masks in the air, we all collected our masks and sanitize them for reuse.

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