MANALI in Winters - Best Places to visit in 7 days | Offbeat vs Tourist

This time I want to take you to Manali and show you the places in a way that you haven't seen before. Feels as if... Don't know if bag is holding her or she's holding the bag. Its so low! It will be very cold there. We're going on New Year's Eve! This bag is full of camera equipments. Seems your bag is very light! This is my first metro ride. I haven't sat before & is my first time. I come to Delhi to just change the flight. Going from Pune to Manali isn't too easy. First you take the flight, t

hen metro, & then take the bus after a 14 hour night journey you reach Manali. So, you'll need a whole day. This is our property. We'll stay here for a week & we asked about chances of snowfall as it happens on New year usually. He said there's a 50% chance & looks beautiful when it snows. Seriously the place seems too quite! This is 7-8 kms away from Manali. So we'll stay here for sometime. Feels amazing! Getting good vibes right away! This time we're not staying in Manali but in the outskirts

of Manali. A place with peace for us to do both travel & work. So we decided to choose this location Manali outskirts villa. There's a different benefit of staying here that I'll tell you later in story. Actually I will show you! It was evening while we had lunch. So we waited for a while and left for Old Manali to do some local shopping. Anyways wherever we go we always buy local clothes on the 1st day so as to get a good vibe there. Is it okay? Yeah this one! See! Its very warm! Does this look

good? Is it matching with this or not? We are happy here! Doing shopping! Yes While exploring market about how amazing the night life is. With so many cafes to explore & we will do it some other day. But for now I just want to have Pao Bhaji. You know its one of my favourite fast food. So with this, we end the day. Its a bit sunny here. Feels good to sit here. I'm thinking as today is a relaxing day. so I'll go around here Its very peaceful. So, I'll go & do some running. & it'll feel good. Wou

ld be a workout type & I always wanted to slow travel in mountains & not do fast travel. So this time, that's why I decided to do slow travel. We'll stay in this property for a week. I'll go, do some running to feel good. Actually, I wanted to try slow travel in mountains since long. During covid, I tried this on the beach side but in the mountains I knew it'll be a different feeling because I love mountains a little more. I got a different feeling this time like everything has stopped. During

the winters its gets evening time early. We didn't go far today but just enjoyed the views. We knew the weather was changing & snowfall can happen anytime. When we woke up the next day the morning views looked like this. After waking up early I went to a mountain overlooking the Manali city. It felt so good to witness all these views. & I got so excited for coming days. The mountain we just trekked is called Banara village. We stayed for a while at this mountain & suddenly the snowfall started &

thought Manali will become winter wonderland today. But that didn't happen as we had to wait for few more days. But every year before New Year it snows atleast once. So we had high expectations. We head to main Manali city in the noon which is 7-8 km from here. It took us 15-20 min & we reached to the most famous market road. The Mall road! You can't miss this street. Seriously you'll love the vibe here. After spending some time in market we walk upto Hadimba Devi Temple. -we'll get a good shot

there. This is most famous temple here. Extremely crowded! I think we'll have to come some other day. Its definitely right that we've to come here early morning. Wherever we're going we're trying to find places away from the crowd. Just like this place! It was close to the temple. I don't know why I love nature so much. Do you also feel the same? Like do you love the city or such a life? Full adventure, into the nature! Tell me in the comments. Before moving ahead I want to share something with

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h 50% off for the next 2 months. Isn't it amazing? So, just go to the link in description. Now, let's continue with the travel video. Hey guys good morning! We've been staying here for few days just exploring Old Manali & just explored the market. Today, we're finally leaving for Sethan Valley which is an offbeat location around Manali. There were chances of snowfall yesterday but as you saw it didn't happen. We kept waiting but it didn't snow. The weather has cleared today & will remain like t

his for 2-3 days. Then around New Year there're chances of snowfall. So, let's go from here. See! I'll introduce you to our friends & who all are there with us. This is our team for today. - I'm Ankur Pathania & I love to travel. Okay. - myself Sidhant Kashyap & I'm a travel content creator. Okay! - hi guys! I'm not a content creator but shoot for fun. - Sarika & I'm just a tag along. Sethan Valley is 15 km from Manali. And this is considered as beautiful offbeat location. Even the views here ar

e scenic. There're many places to explore in this valley. like Pandu Ropa, Indrasan Peak, Hampta pass trek, igloo village & are the favourite locations during summers to camp. We've made it to a beautiful view point & from here I can see the whole valley view. Like, I can see all the snow capped mountains from here. Its just on the way to Sethan so its around 15 km from here. So, let's quickly go and I'll show you. So guys we've made it to the starting point. We parked the car here. The valley

starts from here. Its called as the Hampta Valley & is in Sethan. So, we can go way up there. We'll be shooting on the way. - we're going towards the woods so we'll be covering that. Okay! - we'll get very good cinematics there. Yeah, this is actually really beautiful valley! - literally! There's nobody here. Let's go! During the summers Hampta pass trek starts from here. It's a very beautiful trek. I did this trek in 2017 and was the 1st travel series I started on Youtube. So my journey somehow

started from here. I think we walked for 10-15 minutes and we've reached an open valley here. We're seeing beautiful hills all around. Beautiful hills all around. Good part is there're very few people here as its an offbeat location & not many know of it. If you go to a touristy location or around Rohtang its going to be very crowded. I like such places more. There're so many places & if we go straight we'll reach Hampta Valley. But we won't go there as its already evening. Will enjoy a bit mor

e and then we'll go back. We came here for another video shoot so we covered that and even traveled alongside. I sometimes feel like saying what an amazing life! Good morning! So, we're leaving for Sisu today. & will be covering all nearby locations. We'll be going via Atal tunnel & the weather today is crazy & insane. I think it's already snowing there. Maybe while coming back in the evening it might snow in Manali. There's a prediction for snowfall tomorrow. We will be enjoying a lot today. Le

t's get going from here. Its just the 2 of us today. Sarika & I! It'll be an adventure today in Manali. I've not explored that side much. We have Lahaul, a route going to Spiti, another to Ladakh. We have Kellong. There're many locations & we'll get to know them. If you're going towards Atal Tunnel then be prepared. You'll find a lot of traffic as everyone wants to go there. But it's all worth it. We got very lucky here as its going to snow here. Finally, we're at the Atal tunnel and its snowing

heavily. This is at 10,040 feet. We're right in front of Atal tunnel. They're not letting us go ahead as its snowing heavily. I wish we could go ahead. Only those having a stay there can go so maybe we'll have to come again when it doesn't snow. For what we came to Manali... - yes we got that! - yes yes! Its heavily snowing here. - saying yes for now but will see in the evening when it gets cold. See here! It has became a winter wonderland. If you come here in winters come in 4 by 4 otherwise i

t might be risky to drive during snowfall especially after snowfall. I wish we got a chance to go across the Atul tunnel but because of heavy snowfall we just enjoyed here for couple of hours. We've been stuck here for last 2 hours its heavily snowing and the cars are stuck. Some cars have even hit each other. We're just waiting for the road to clear. JCB is clearing the roads over here. Many people are here & I don't know how we'll go back. I hope everything gets done safely. I'm very scared. Y

ou're not applying brakes. Driving without brakes. That night the snowfall didn't stop. It was snowing all the way till we reached Manali. Then the next day we go for another adventure. - morning guys! Finally we're super pumped up. You can see it has snowed there.. - yes. - it even snowed here yesterday night - but oh! - roll down the windows. - what's the name of that South Indian actor. - Dulqueer - Tulkar? - Mr. Dulqueer is here. - Mr. Dulqueer is here. - super pumped up for the drone shots.

See where the camera is. - I don't know that much. Let's go! I said in the start of the video that staying here has its own benefits. The benefit is that you go 1-2 kms uphill and you'll get such views then. - how do you feel? Yesterday night we reached very late & as we woke up in the morning the views looked like this around us. From the place we're staying at we went a little farther up the hill. and got views of snowfall all-around. It didn't snow down there. But it snowed here so we came h

ere early morning. What crazy views we have here. - views are crazy but Ankit bro came in slippers. Yes I came in slippers. - real fun is in slippers. - bro look there its snowing. Oh man! - I'll tell Say! - guys today we are at a hidden gem and what we'll be exploring here will be in front of you in the next 5 minutes. In our team we have Ankit Bhatia with the camera. Live recording... - everything's shaking like this. - how do you feel? - look at the camera... Feels like we're in heaven. - wha

t's the name... Dulqueer. - the car won't go further so our BMW that we got has been parked down there. We'll walk as far as we can. We'll try walking and going. - listen, listen. You're talking about walking, we're in slippers. Something else was said to me. Sorry! - they've played games with me. Our car won't be able to father from here as it was not a 4x4. The road looks like this so we're waking now. Will see how far we can go. So, we've reached this view point & getting the valley view from

here. There're snow capped mountains all around. I think its just snowing here in Manali as Manali is quite far from here. We've come a bit up. Wow it's beautiful. This is definitely beautiful. For the first time, I'm capturing such views with FPV. I felt like I'm a bird and flying across this valley. It felt so amazing. Good morning guys. Its a new day. Actually its the last day of 2022. Its our last day here as we leave tomorrow evening. Today we'll go around & explore a bit. Can you see tree

s and woods there so we'll hiking up there and see what's there. Then we'll head to the market as we've kept the day for shopping. So, we'll also shop today. We've been here since days, but didn't shop anything. We're walking now Everyone else who were with us have left & its just the 2 of us. But we'll be enjoying . Its warm & feels good. - yes it was very cold yesterday The last 2 days it was very cold. It was cold & snowing so couldn't do much. But took some good shots. Its warm. I feel good

while walking. Getting good vibes. Look at Sarika dancing. - the weather today is amazing. This is yet another location just opposite to where we're staying. We shot here for another camera brand. While walking we're in this jungle Look at the views all around. The good thing is there's nobody here. Shooting at such locations is fun. We're the only ones here. Its so trippy. Trees all around. Its so beautiful & I like such locations. Its so peaceful. So, we'll take lot of shots here. Sarika is si

tting there alone. - it feels so ... Sarika is sittingthere. as this place is unexplored. What're you saying? - we're enjoying as this place is unexplored. Yes, true. - there's nobody here. Nobody is around. I realised a lot of things after coming on this trip on what kind of travel I want in my life. I was very happy that I decided to come to Manali on New Year. I hope you also enjoyed it. We've covered many locations in this video. Maybe now you know if you're coming to Manali in winters then

where all to go. I know there're many other places here that you might be exploring on your own. We just had these days so with this I take your leave. Will meet you soon in the next video with a new adventure. Till then take care, bye - bye. Thank you!