Started my travels from Meerut along with mumma and papa. The drive was great, for couple reasons. One, the highways were empty, except there were more trucks / lorries than cars. Two, we got to see the real villages enroute, after getting off the tollways. Checkout YouTube India Reels https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nDyka6IYyP4

While I enjoyed the people, I did notice there is a lot of garbage people throw on the roads, specially the villages in Haryana. The roads are in real bad condition. While the tollways were great, there were couple or more places where our car took a good hit due to unleveled roads. The recommended speed was 120km/hr, which the car doesn’t let you surpass, as it beeps continuously at that speed.

I captured a lot of moments on my GoPro that I put in continuous recording in the car.

We arrived in Alwar around noon, but the roads were in terrible shape, before we entered the army campus where we were going to stay. The roads were spectacular there. Once we arrived, we were given a beautiful welcome care by the staff, and we ate a delicious lunch meal (chole a.k.a chick peas, poori a.k.a deep fried Indian bread, roti a.k.a simple Indian wheat bread, raita a.k.a yogurt with dressing and salad).

After lunch we drove to see the Bala Qila. The rods were so narrow that the traffic from two sides could barely go through. Once arriving at the gates to the fort we found out that there were private gypsies (Maruti jeep) were available for a safari ride into the tiger reserve. We hired it and went for the ride. It was a great ride for three of us. Mumma sat in the front while papa and I sat on the back seats. The ride was adventurous.

We saw a lot of deers, peacocks, pigs, birds, wild boars and other wild animals. Visited the Karni temple and made offerings. If one took a private car, they would have to walk down the stairs to access the temple, but since we had the Gypsy, the driver took us through the Rockies gravel road with a lot of bumps on the way. I was worried about parents who are in their early and late seventies. But both enjoyed the ride. We then went to visit the temple atop the fort, and walked to the places on the walls of the fort from where we could see the whole of Alwar city. It was a beautiful scene.

At the top I met a few young kids visiting the fort, so I asked if I could interview them. Only one enthusiastically agreed, and so I ended up interviewing him. Each of them took a picture with me. I truly enjoyed the whole experience.