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CHANDRATAL LAKE

The Epitome of Mesmerism

Day 1

Bus

We took an overnight bus from Delhi kashmiri gate to Manali for our trip to Chandrataal. We took a bus in evening so that we can reach the Manali early in morning and can catch the bus to Kaza.

Day 2

Manali

 to 

Batal

Bus

We reached Manali early in the morning and catch the bus to Kaza which starts everyday at 5 AM. It took us around 3 hrs to reach Batal. The road to Batal is the worst I can say. The bus fare was around 150 rupee.

After reaching Batal, you can't ignore the most famous Dhaba of the area, run by two old people, called as chacha and Chachi. The hospitality was beyond words and food too. We had tea,and the famous Aloo da Paratha and clicked some pics with them.

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Here comes the difficulty part of trip, no bus goes to Chandrataal directly, the only option we had was to hitchhike. For that you can ask bikers or the people coming from travellers or cars, we got help from one of the family and they dropped us.

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It's better to pre book your stay in tent in Chandrataal, it can be done online or by calling the certain camping teams. We stayed in Shakya camps and the rent was 1200 per person. The milky way is easily seen in the night and it was too cold.

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The distance between both the places is 5 KM, you can either hitchhike or trek to the lake. We decided to trek upto the lake and taken the alternative route between mountains rather than going thru road. And the view was mesmerizing.

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Day 3

Next day we took hitchhike upto Batal early in the morning as we have to catch bus to Manali at 9AM coming from Kaza. For the hitchhike we talked to Shared auto in advance a day before. We reached Manali by 2 PM.

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