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HYDERABAD:  For many of us, winter might be our favorite season. The nip within the air, the heat of the woolens and the pipping scorching meals makes it one of the best time to make a journey. Most of us find it irresistible a lot that winter all the time appears short-lived.  

Now, with one other unforgiving summer season able to hit Hyderabad anytime, many from the town are jetting off to the mountains to benefit from the final snowfall. CE speaks to some of them who selected to take a break from the nice and cozy days right here and wrap up their winter at greater altitudes.       

Murarikar Ramya and her husband Karthik had visited Kashmir not too long ago and it was the easiest way they might bid adieu to winter. “It was that point of the yr the place everybody desires to expertise the mesmerising snow and mountains. We selected Kashmir as a result of it’s heaven on earth. It’s breathtaking evaluations and images didn’t give us choice to look elsewhere,” says Ramya, who visited Srinagar, Gulmarg, Phalgham and Sonamarg, along with her husband. 

“Wherever you go, you’ll solely see snow-capped mountains and greenery. We had been lucky sufficient to witness snowfall in Gulmarg. We had a good time snowboarding and in addition acquired an opportunity to journey on the cable automobile (Gandola), which is the world’s second highest. Proper from our keep in a houseboat at Srinagar to a tremendous trek in Sonamarg, each place we went to had one thing distinctive in retailer for us.  As an illustration, Phalgham has some lovely valleys, the snowboarding in Gulmarg, the frozen lakes and waterfalls, the glaciers and at last, the heat of the Kashmiri individuals — we couldn’t have requested for extra,” she says. 

Usha Dutta, a journey blogger from the town, suggests a couple of locations the place one can catch the final snowfall of the season. “Auli in Uttrakand, Gulmarg in Kashmir, Kufri in Himachal are some must-visit spots this time of the yr. Many consider visiting Shimla, however the metropolis doesn’t obtain as a lot snow because it used to anymore. It had snowed somewhat in December and January, that’s it. In Kufri, you may go to Chail. You will get to see some leftover snow there. Ladakh and Spiti Valley are additionally enjoyable choices. From there, head out to Manali. The Northeast is one other location that folks an discover,” she says, including that the factor to do in such locations is snowboarding.

Kunal Maliramani, 19, did simply that. For somebody who has been trekking throughout the nation since he was at school IX, he simply wanted a motive to flee the town life and Hyderabad warmth. Kunal pushed off to Asia’s cleanest village, Mawlynnong in Meghalaya. “The place was distant and the individuals had been very hospitable. One can benefit from the final snow right here with many different actions reminiscent of snowboarding and cable automobile rides,” he says. 

There has clearly been a spike in bookings to those locations.  Priyanka Ranka from Holidaz.com says “Summer time is almost right here, however there a couple of locations within the nation the place it’s nonetheless snowing. Many individuals have been going to Kashmir; your entire stock is bought out with hardly any rooms out there. Locations reminiscent of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are additionally on many individuals’s must-visit listing. It’s snowing in these locations, however this would possibly finish quickly. That’s why the push to go to.”

Earlier than one other unforgiving summer season units in, Hyderabadis are jetting off to the snow-capped mountains of the nation to benefit from the final snowfall of the season. They, together with journey bloggers, converse to CE about their expertise