Day 5 - Higher altitude in Gulmarg

We took the Gondola (cable-car) to reach over 14000ft above the sea. It was covered with snow. We tried our luck with ski-ing with the help of a private trainer and loved it. Both have decided to join a Ski-camp in the beginning of 2012. This place was few hundred meters from the Line-of-control (LOC). After our arduous morning, we had the most amazing kashmiri khawa (tea with almonds, elaichi, and cinnamon) and kashmiri pilao laced with cashew and badam.

People who say that you just swing to Gulmarg and back remind me of Tarzan, they rush to the Gondola and rush back. Gulmarg has much more to offer – you have to stay for 2 days and we are so glad that we did.

We also re-discovered old Hindi cinema during the restful afternoons – with nyammade (our) villain of yesteryears, Ajit, interrupting the hero and heroine (yeng Dharmendra and Rakhee) from their emotional embrace with “abhi band karo, warna shortcut kar doonga”.