Hey, Hivers hope you all are doing well in today's blog I will be sharing with you guys an idea about the beauty of the villages of Himachal and the life of people living there.
Himachal is divided into 12 districts one of them is Shimla famous for its terrains and natural beauty. I will be sharing with you one of the villages situated in the Shimla District.
The village is named Tikkar it is at an elevation of 2100 meters from sea level.
How to Reach-
To reach this village you will first need to come to Shimla city from there you will have to travel on NH-5 approx for 40 km after reaching a place Named Theog you will have to travel on a local road for 25 km to reach this place.
About The Village-
Tikkar is a place where the temp varies a lot from summer to winter in summers it can go up to 28-34 degrees Celcius and in winters it can go down to -5 degrees Celcius.
In winters we can see snowfall here from November and it can be a layer up to 2-3 feet. The village is very close to the mountain top so when it snows one can go up the mountain to enjoy the view.
Similar to other villages of Shimla here the main crop is apple. The people of this village have large orchards of apple and produces good apples yearly.
I went to this village last year and was enlightened by the beauty of this village I traveled to the place around December and it was cold out there I reached the village in the afternoon and went to one of my friend's house. The weather was pleasant with some clouds in the sky I enjoyed my lunch with his family As the day passed it kept on getting colder and the sky was getting covered with clouds and according to the weather forecast it was expected to snow there.
so I was happy that I will witness the beauty of that place. So in the night, it started to snow and the temperature dropped to -4 degrees Celsius. We enjoyed watching the snow by sitting in front of the fire. Then we went to sleep.
The next morning when I woke up it was just magical all the trees and the land was covered in snow it was a heavy snowfall
It was a quiet morning there was silence everywhere and to the extent, my eyes were able to see it was completely white covered in snow. As the time passed the sun came up and was a bright sunny day the sun was warm there was not much cold despite the snowfall.
We decided to take a small hike to the mountain top as the snow expected there was twice as much it was in the village.
So we did breakfast gathered some more people to accompany us on the hike.
We packed some lunch and important things like warm jackets and big boots to walk in the snow and left the village around 10 in the morning.
we started our hike it was looking far from below but it was worth reaching the top.
It was a decent hike in the starting we kept following a road full of snow after walking for half an hour on that road we took a shortcut to the top that was from where the hard part started it was steep to hike and snow was making it more difficult as we kept slipping on the snow our feet were getting cold as we kept walking.
We decided to take a rest after walking for about an hour
.We were feeling hungry as it was very exhausting walking in the snow so we ate some food for energy and started walking again.
Only hike of 1 hour was left we were charged to walk again so started walking again at a good pace and as we're getting close to the top snow was increasing and our legs were going deeper in the snow making it hard to walk.
We somehow managed to reach the top in one piece.
We stayed there for a while and than went back after sometime
This was it for the blog hope you liked the blog and i will be writing some interesting blogs.
