Kailash Mansarovar Yatra - 2019 - Dates Postponed - KMY - 4

As the dates of our yatra KMY was nearing, we had encountered another red flag.

Weather in Tibet wasn't favorable for the Yatra and Chinese government refused to grant visas in the month of May, due to safety concerns.

There goes our flight booking. we incurred losses of upto 8k INR, excluding the one from JET airways.

Nothing could be done, we accepted it as a part of our fate.

I had a not so smooth Bhutan trip in 2018 and I felt same continued in 2019 too.

Already I was not that impressed by workplace and its happenings, this one literally pushed me into total confusion whether to proceed with KMY or not. At home parents were insisting to withdraw money. They were of the opinion that I could never make it this year owing to this much confusion.

There have been times when my parents have been against me going to the Himalayas, over here too, they were pretty much opposed to the decision of me doing KMY especially after visas getting denied for the month of May 2019.

But I believed only myself and nobody else and stuck on, rather hung on :)-

Rebooked all the flights for the month of July, 2019, and yeah I was ready for attempting KMY innings 2 :)-

Cheers,

Kailash Mansarovar Yatra - 2019 - Flight booking- KMY - 3

Once my leaves were approved, we were immediately up for booking flight tickets. Booked tickets successfully. It was a difficult exercise.

We had to book Bangalore to Delhi and then Delhi to Kathmandu. By mistake I booked a Jet airways flight from Delhi to Kathmandu. Jet ran out of business and I lost my money. Till date there is no refund from Jet Airways. I am pretty sure, I cannot expect it too :(

First red flag encountered! I tried to book Royal Nepal Airlines and over here there was an inventory software issue and flight booking failed, there by I had to go for Jet Airways, big mistake.

A friend of mine confidently said book Jet, it shall be taken over by Vistara, darn thing, I shouldn't have listened to people, Never mind, as my previous German architect used to say - "it happens".

Cheers,