KALATOP----CHAMBA.

The View of the Kalatop Peak at Chamba.

               TREKKING UPTO THE PEAK OF THE KALATOP.

The Tall deodar adorning the Kalatop peak.

As we kept climbing across the jungle route of deodar at Kalatop.

 The peak is still a long way ....

Trying to capture the memmories of our adventurous trek in our camera lens.

 The beauty of the surrounding area from top of the Kalatop peak.

 The Pirpanjal peeping thru' the tall deodars....

KALATOP, also considered as a hillstation of Chamba  is a beautiful peak covered with tall deodar trees....Its a 3kms distance to its peak which can be made on foot or by vehicle . If ,someone intend to go upto the top by vehicle ,might have to make a payment of 250Rs/-+ guide charge is 150Rs/-. But we opted for a trek upto its top via an unconventional route across the jungles which will save us a distance of 1&1/2 Km to its top .... though quite an adventurous attempt. we started off from the base after parking our car at the enterance.....For first few mins.of the climb we were quite enthusiatic moving ahead of each other thru' the tall deodar trees. Hardly any road mark on the way except  following each others foot marks across ,we moved on ....After an hour climb ,I was feeling very exhausted as hardly I could see any end to our climb to the top . But ,my husband kept on motivating me to move on & kept exciting me to get to see a wonderful view ,when on top ...So, I moved on ...............Many a time ,I slipped as I was wearing a sneaker shoe instead of a trek shoe... But our driver helped me to move up .... The climb is pretty steep & I was running out of breathe... But some how could make it to the top ... What a view from here ,I shouted!!!!!! The Pirpanjal was looking awesome thru' the dense branches of tall deodars. When on top ...we sat for a while on the grasses as we kept clicking each others photos ,to cool all our pains . Now ,its time to move downward ,which is much more dangerous.... maintaining ones balance thru' & the chilled in the air  made it more difficult. But when at the bottom of the Kalatop peak ,we felt that it was worth attempting rather trying out the ordinary drive on a vehicle .