We had a Long week end and decided to explore nearby places of Chandigarh. We decided to make a short one day trip to chail (102 km distance from Chandigarh by Road.) Whether around the area was bad. We booked maharaja double bed room for a night costing Rs. 17000/- per night on Internet (8/9 March night). We started early morning on 8th March 2015 at 7:30 am by Hyundai I10 car filled the tank and checked air in all the 5 wheels. Chandigarh to kandaghat is very good National Highway Road -22 very comfortable journey. It was raining, so extra care had to be taken while driving. Remain on the left side, keep giving pass to vehicles when desired.
From kandaghat to chail is a typical 10 feet terrible plus 2 katcha path 13 km down wards to sadhu pull on Aasan river and then 15 km regular climb up to chail.
During our visit sadhu pull had been washed away by flood and heavy traffic. This came to our knowledge only after reaching bridge. There was no sign board for showing bifurcation of separate road to cross Aasan River through temporary bridge.
This bifurcation was about 1.5 km before Sadhu Bridge. This bifurcation road was kacha road and steep and required testing of our driving skills due to rain and kacha base there were slips of tyres. Local People gave us information that sadhu pull was washed away about 6 months back. It may take a year for its reconstruction. We stopped for a break (15-20 Minutes) near SadhuPul. Sadhupul is a small village in (dhalta) Himachal Pradesh between Solan and chail based around a small bridge constructed over the hill river Aasan. There are beautiful points on the river Aasan where one can take a break and route to Chail. We could see some camps for adventure activities like rope climbs etc. along with Aasan river. Chail is also considered as the hiker's paradise. The area is away from the bustling life of the state capital Shimla. It lay surrounded by magnificent deodar forests.
We reached chail by 12 Noon. It was very pretty place. We imagined our self in heaven. We were tired with a long journey. So we decided to check in hotel “Chail palace”.
Maharaja Room. The interior was awesome and gave us of feeling being Maharaja. It was very tastefully designed. It refreshed all our tiredness
We took lunch in King Dining hall. Took some rest in the Room and then visited sidh temple
Sidh Temple is (1.5 km) from Chail Palace Maharaja Bhupinder Singh originally began building his palace at this site. It is said that a Sidh - saintly person - appeared before the Maharaja in dream and declared that this was the place where he had this temple built.
We also visited worlds highest cricket ground 7500 feet.
For some time we stayed in small market Mall road of chail also. It was 6:00pm when we came back. There is a beautiful park around chail palace and nice walk ways around 74 acre property of chail palace.
We returned to our Room by 7:00pm and then dinner at 9:00pm and saw Tv for an hour and slept. During night it was snowing throughout when we woke up in the morning we saw white carpet of snow on lawn/Park of chail palace. It was snow all around. It was clear sky and sun shining. We enjoyed snow for two hours by walking over it and playing with snowballs. We waited for snow to melt, So that we can start our drive back to Chandigarh. By 12:30 pm
We started our back journey to Chandigarh reached Chandigarh by 5:00pm.
Nice and detailed information with beautiful pictures of the trip. Chail is a hill station in Himachal Pradesh and attracts many tourists. Along with beautiful places to visit in Chail ,it has the world's highest cricket ground.
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