J&K Trip Day 1 Part 1

So finally my dream trip of Jammu and Kashmir happened.Early morning at 7 was my flight from Bangalore to Delhi.And this time yet another airline.It was jey lite.After bidding adieu to all the family members and friends it was time for us to leave Bangalore.We reached Delhi @ 9:50 and then boarded the flight to Jammu and finally reached here at 11:30.I thought the weather will be either warm or cool but its just like Bangalore.Its really hot and the temp is 31 degrees.Anyways the journey started off on a bad note coz of the vehicle.We wanted a AC Qualis with good seats but then we landed up with a pretty ok Tavera.Now Dolly is stuck with the bad back seats.Our driver Praveen resembles a hindi movie villain.Somehow this entire place is scaring me.Maybe it’s the influence of all the hindi war movies that I have seen. Anyways we have started our journey with the sight seeing of jammu.We came now to Bahu fort.It has a very nice Kali mandir.This reminds me of a temple in Bali.The fort looks really bad and small.Security is always there and is very strict.So we could not take any mobiles and cameras in.Somehow I could not trust these people will all my stuff so I dint give anything at the cloak room.We sent the couple in first and then Me Anil and Dolly went in.We could not see anything there because everything was prohibited there for entry.But the temple was pretty good.Then we went to see a garden called Bagh-E-Bahu.We first spoke to the ticket guy and asked him if there was anything worthy there to see.He conned us by saying that there was musical fountain.but for our bad luck all that we found there was just hot sun and some shade under the trees.We also saw some localites over there who were enjoying some quiet time for themselves there.Anyways we were already very tired of heat we decided not to see anything else there.Also there was a aquarium shaped like a giant fish which we decided to skip.The view was great with the Tawi river flowing beside the fort.Next when we walked out we saw the local transport.Its the same minivans as in Bangalore.We picked up a bottle of mineral water outside.But thanx to Slumdog Millionaire I was thinking twice before having to pay for the bottle.We just picked one bottle and then headed towards one more temple.
We reached Char Dham.Also in this Chardham temple is Ganga Ghat.The river Tawi was flowing pretty fast here.With just 2 girls who know how to swim in the entire group we just decided to sit around for 5 minutes and then saw the temple.It had 3 giant sculptures.One of Kari Ganesha,One hanuman and the other is Vasudeva carrying Balkrishna on his head in the basket.The temple deities again are very sweet looking.One more interesting thing is that all the deities are smiling.Thats when Ani made a point.Gods here are always ever smiling but people are not and its vice versa down south.Also the deities are very big and nice.There is also Amar Jyothi here.This deepa is always lite and its in front of huge lingam.All different avatars of Krishna was there which made me get back to spiritualism.By the time we finished it was already 2 and our stomachs were making noises for food.I just bought a lonely planet thanx to which I came to know about restaurants.
Then we went to Falak which is a roof top restaurant in a nice hotel called K.C.Residency.I was really happy to have found a really good and neat restaurant.But I was in a bigger surprise.This hotel was on the roof top and it was built kind off like outside the building.When we sat I thought the floor was shaking then I was told that the hotel was revolving.So as we sat for our lunch we could see the entire city of Jammu.WOW!!!What a beautiful place.Good food and an excellent view .Awesome selection!!!We saw the Tawi river banks,Raghunath Mandir and even a parrot sitting on a branch while having lunch.With just 1225 all the 5 of us had food till our throats.Thats how full we were.After that it was time for a walk on a busy street called Residency road.What happens after that ill tell u in the next part!!!!