The Day I Touched The Sky:')

It Was My Fifth Day In Kashmir. I Was Eager To See What Makes Gulmarg So Popular. The Beauty Of Kashmir Was Indeed Breath Taking And so Extraordinarily Beautiful That It Almost felt Unreal. The Wild Bubbling Ice Cold Streams, The Magnificent Towering Snow-Capped Himalayas,The Lush Greenery, The Peaceful Serene Dal lake And The Lovely Warm Hearted People. How Could It Get Any Better? I Woke Up Early That Day Expecting Another Beautiful Day Of My Life. I knew That The Main Attraction Of The Gulmarg Was The Cable Car Ride. Actually There Were Two Parts Of The Ride; One Could Opt For The First Phase Which Took One Halfway Up The Mountain Or The Second Phase Which Took You Right At The Top. I Was Not Feeling Very Brave About Going That High, But We had Opted For The second Phase. We Started From Srinagar Towards Gulmarg Early In The Morning. The Road Was So Beautiful That One Could never Get Bored. 

After We managed To Make Our way Back We Had Some Snacks And Resumed Our Journey. Gulmarg Was Simply Beautiful With Snow Covered Mountains Surrounding The Region. We Saw The Famous Shiv Temple Where 'Jai Jai Shiv Shankar' Was Shot. We Had To Walk half A Kilometer To Reach The Place From where The Cable Car Started. After Standing In a Long Line 

 Our Chance Came. One Cable Car Seated Six People; We Got a Cable car To Ourselves. We Went Uphill And Saw Small Streams And Huts And Blobs Of Snow Fallen Here And There. As We Went Further up The Vegetation And Settlements Completely vanished And Only white Snow Covered The Place Like A Blanket.

At A Point Because Of Clouds Even The Path Ahead Was Not visible. At Last we Reached The Much Awaited Second Phase. As Far As My Eyes Could See There Was Only Snow All Around. Being There I Felt As If I Was At The Top Of The World. This Was How I Imagined The Land Of My Dreams To Be, Far Away Untouched By Pollution. I Realised The Magnificent Beauty Of Mother Nature. The Temperature Was Much Below Zero Degree Celsius. I Could Have Stood There Forever But Unfortunately We Had To Go Back. Now I Think That I Know What Heaven Must Look Like. I Don't Know How Many Times You Have Heard This But I Will Say It Again, If There Is Any Heaven On Earth It Is This, It Is This, It Is This!