So far, I am a weekend traveler only and can’t say about the future. I only get weekends (Saturday and Sunday) to travel and I have to make the most of my traveling in these two days only. At the year-end of 2019 in December, I made a weekend trip to Kasauli and Shimla. Well, it was a weekend trip to Shimla actually and Kasauli wasn’t on the list. I was supposed to spend my two days in Shimla itself but the next day I came to Kasauli without anything much on the name of planning.
While I only had one day to spend in Kasauli, I didn’t get to explore much of it. If I talk about the time, I didn’t even have one day. I reached there pretty late and since there was no itinerary of Kasauli, there was nothing much to explore in Kasauli. Thus, it is better to first plan the trips but I have been bitten by the bug of unplanned travel so usually, I end up traveling without any such plans. When I came home from Kasauli and checked some blogs, I realized there could have been more than what I did there. I mean if we talk about places to visit in Kasauli on one day, I didn’t do much.
Read Here – Why did I plan to visit Kasauli?
I only visited one place in Kasauli, the famous Christ Church, the oldest church in Himachal Pradesh and that was what I did on a weekend trip to Kasauli, wish I could have explored more. But it was all because of no planning. I reached there in the late morning and then I had no idea of places to explore in Kasauli. This small British-established town had more to offer only if I were prepared to taste its sweetness. I came all in a hurry and left much of the deliciousness. However when I left, when I took a bus back to Dharampur, I realized that it wasn’t over and one day I would be back in Kasauli.
What did I do on a weekend trip to Kasauli?
So I was done with the crowd and chaos of Shimla as Delhi was enough for me for crowd and chaos. So, I wanted to leave there and go to someplace better. Google showed me options and I opted for Kasauli. Till college, I used to think that Kasol is Kasauli. I got to know very late that both places are different, located almost 250km away from each other. When I got down at the bus stop of Kasauli and took a walk towards the main center, the first thing that captured my attention was the military area and the second thing was the church which was easily from a distance.
Read Here – The Ridge Shimla
While I was heading towards the church, on the way, I saw a few shops and I reached one since I hadn’t eaten anything since morning. It was a tea stall, selling light snacks like pakoda and samosa. I had one bread pakoda and one samosa and then I moved to the church. It was a bit crowded and there was a pre-wedding shoot which somehow was something I wasn’t looking for. Since I reached here late, I didn’t get to explore much of the place. I had no idea what to do in Kasauli in one day.
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Kasauli was settled by the British back then. A church was made for their sacred purposes and they started living there. You take a walk and you will feel the countryside of England. The small town still has preserved the same smell and one can easily feel so after spending some moments there. However, I didn’t get to explore much there. By the time it started to get dark, I visited a restaurant for dinner since I was starving. I hadn’t eaten anything since morning other than just light snacks. I didn’t go around and checked more options. Somehow, it felt to me that either I was on the wrong side or the shops were mostly closed that day which I even felt when I reached in the day. Well, I entered this fancy looking restaurant and had the meal of the day.
Read Here – Indian Coffee House Shimla
They say the evenings in the hills are beautiful, romantic and something you shouldn’t want to miss. The place other than the church that I wanted to go was the Sunset Point. Unfortunately, it was already late and dark too. The next day, I had to be back in the office I was working at, thus I missed out. Though the place from where I saw this wonderful phenomenon of nature, it was itself incredible to watch the sun embracing the earth.
I hope there will be a day when I will be back there. I would spend more than just a day in Kasauli and will explore all the places I didn’t get to explore on my one day trip to Kasauli.
