Mystic valley of solang

No visit to  Manali in Himachal Pradesh is complete without Solang valley specially if you are nature lover, want to enjoy peace, away from mad crowds of popular street of hill stations.Whole solang valley itself is very mystic, oozing with natural beauty.This region serve as starting point of some of very good trek (beas kund trek being very famous.) Most of tourists come for  day visit here but if you really want to know the charm of this place,  you have to stay here. We had stayed here for 2 days. It was an amazing experience. accomodations are very basic here with limited facility. In the month of april some snow was still there, atmosphere was cloudy with some patchy views but worth enjoying every moment here. In winter months, usually this is the end point of road with snow point with all snow related sports and fun activites. In summer, trekking is popular here.

First view of valley in morning from our hotel..

Beas river is flowing here just behind the hotel ( stone throw distance)

Another view of valley.

Mixture of snow, clouds, barren lands and greenery. All shades of nature

towards Rohtang road near palchan village 

Usual tourist vehicle traffic on road to Rohtang

snow clad mountains, clouds and a dhaba, place to relax, have acup of tea

Now snow every where, even jungles of cedar on slops of mountains are covered with snow

From kothi  village one can see origin of Beas river

snow peak with baren trees

snowline started

ice land

In cloudy whether, there was snowfall, first experience in life. though it was for littel time I was thrilled

another view near snow point at  Gulaba

Tourists near snow point Gulaba

After decending down, we went to slops of solang valley with some sports activites like paragliding and zorbing. ( all depend upon type of wheather)

There is small trek for newbies starts from solang known as Anjani mahadev trek or shivling trek. It is said that in winter months, there is natural shivling forms due to freezing of fall from height. small temple is construacted there.trek time is 2 to 3  hours to and fro.

view of valley from the trek

Pathway with milestone

some people used pony, but best to go by foot

small rivulet on the way, on other side, there is  temple. small ropeway was construated but it was not operational( might be useful when flow of river is high and turbulant)

fall from height

close view

exact site where water falls directly, In winter this part forzed and forms natural shivling

while returning, evening time, whole valley hazy cloudy and mystic. clean roads, with good drizle of rain , chilly atmosphere. and cup of hot coffee at local shop. Oh wow, what an experience. worth to remember lifetime.

Next morning, there was clear whether,

Different snow peak seen clearly

This is the hotel we stayed, Hotel Ice land, nice place to stay in solang.