VASHISHT KUND

The place is located few kilometers away from Manali. The beautiful small village located east of the Beas river, spread the energy of positivity and is a veritable backpackers paradise. Locals and tourists love to visit this place which gives tremendous view of nature and provide inner satisfaction deep in the sole. Vashistha village is extremely significant when it comes to the heritage Indian hindu culture as one of the saptrishis rishi Vashistha stayed there for sometime. There is a hot water spring known as kund. According to legend the saddened Rishi Vashisht after knowing that his children were killed by Vishwamitra tried to commit suicide, but the river refused to kill him. The river was therefore named as Vipasha which means ' freedom from bondage'. It was later shortened to Beas River. He began mediating and vowed to start his new life. The Vashisht temple is believed to be more than 4000 years old.
There is also ancient stone temple of Lord Rama adjacent to the Vashisht temple. The place is an important Hindu Pilgrimage centre. The hot spring of the village are believed to have been created by Lakshman, the younger brother of Lord Ram. The creation of the spring is associated with the belief that since Lakshman, did not want the sage Vashisht to have to walk too far for a bath, he shot an arrow into the ground and the hot springs emerged.
Vashisht offers excellent view of the Beas River and the Old Manali. The river valley spread below at sunset gives an excellent sight and great for photography.

                          Backpacking For Unplanned Trip To Himachal

We headed towards the land of gods and we did not have any appropriate plans where to go. But by conserning with everybody we headed towards Kasol. Kasol is a small town situated deep inside the great Himalayas near parvati river in parivati valley. The place is untouched by the people and mainly populated by Israelis. We reached there via Bhuntar, it is a small town from where the road divides for kullu and manikaran. Kasol lies in the path of manikaran. The hordings and boards outside shops and restraunts contains Hebrew subscripts. We reached there in morning so we decided to take hotel at low cost and then after dropping our bags in hotel we proceed to explore the place. After taking hotel we decided to go out, we went to restaurant The Evergreen, the location of the restaurant is beautiful and is well maintained. We saw Europeans there and most of them are engaged in smoking and drinking. Everything was going on openly, what actually we want there, then we ordered the Israeli(shakshuka) and Italian(Vegeteria and Italian pasta ). The foods are delicious and affordable. Then we decided to explore more and more and for that we ahead alongside the parvati river, the beauty of nature is amazing and the valley of kasol makes it more and more interesting. The place is still untouched by the outer world, by enjoying and prasing the beauty of Himalayas we headed to Manikaran sahib which is only 4km distant from kasol, by following parvati river. I remembered when I was small I visited manikaran sahib with my parents but this time I was there with my friends. We reached Manikaran sahib at evening visited the gurudwara and come back to hotel. During dinner we planned for the next day, at that time we had two options either go for trekking for kheerganga or go to kullu. Actually the main motive of our trip from starting was, we will do against what usually travelers do, so we decided that after making fun we would move to Kullu valley at evening the next day. when we woke up in morning we saw amazing beauty with ice on mountain the weather was quite cold and cold winds were blowing with quite raining. After doing our breakfast we did little bit shopping and then went toward the river side and have some fun there(everything is allowed there in open so nothing to worry about people). Then, that very evening we take bus for Kullu and headed towards Kullu valley.
We did night stay in Kullu and the next morning we moved out to visit the place with the breakfast of Thuppka, the famous dish. After roaming for sometime we visited to Raghunath temple and then we took bus for Manali. In manali we visited Hadimba temple, the place where the temple is located is beautiful and is so good to click photos for whatsapp and facebook DPs. then we stayed in hotel and the next day we hire a car and moved toward gulabo gulaba then we visited solhan valley the famous thing was ropeway at solhan valley, then we come to know that the weather for roahtang pass was not well so we decline the plan for rohatang pass and moved to Vashistha kund, the place is famous as rishi Vashistha stayed at that place for some time and there is a hot water spring where people take bath and it is said that you will feel very relaxed by taking bath in that hot water spring. Then we visited Manu Temple, there is no real evedience available weather Lord Manu visited that place or not. But according to myth Lord Vishnu protects sapt rishis and Manu and bring them to Manali. The name Manali of the place is derived from the name of Manu. That was the last spot of ours to visit then we bored bus at evening for kullu and then moved to chandigarh from kullu, as at night time we didn't find any bus direct to Delhi.
As we reached Chandigarh we change our plan and after visiting rock garden and giving tribute to Nek Chand we headed towards Amritsar. We reached at evening and we are going out of money so we directly hired auto with our luggage and went to famous Wagha Border situated at Attari village in Amritsar district, Lahore is about 24km from there and Amritsar is about 32km. We were quite late in reaching Wagha border as parade was started but we managed to join the crowd and feels the amazing feeling of patriotism from both sides of India and Pakistan. When the evening ceremony overs we found mass amount of crowd at Indian side. We take lot of pics there with BSF solders and people. Then we headed towards Golden temple, we reached there at late evening. Then we spend sometime in temple premises and did some shopping and bored a train direct for Delhi at late night.
This trip was so unplanned from day one to day last and we have enjoyed the amazing experience of this unplanned trip, in which we almost    travelled from Indo-China border to Indo-Pakistan border.