An unforgettable journey to Lucknow

An unforgettable journey to Lucknow

We, 3 girls, started our journey from Delhi to Lucknow to attend friend’s marriage. But let me first tell you about the route from Delhi to Lucknow which is well connected from all the metros and other major Indian cities by air, road, and rail. But the train network is better and virtually all trains from Delhi to East of India have a stoppage in Lucknow.

Additionally, Lucknow is also well connected by buses. However, the roads aren't great in UP so I would recommend you to take the train which is better and comfortable for short distance (a night’s journey).

So, we decided to start our journey after office. As usual, Our seat was not confirmed and we had only 2 seats, another 1 seat was in RAC but sharing a seat with some other person was very complex and confused for us. And therefore, we named that person ‘critical situation’.

Now it was the sleeping time so we slept and waked up in the morning at sharp 6 o'clock. It was a cold windy morning in January with an amazing rain. Our train stopped in Alamnagar before the main station of charbagh and the train was 2 hours late so we decided to alight at Alamnagar station.

We took the e-rickshaw instantly to enjoy the rainy weather. We even got drenched but we enjoyed each and every moment. We visited the main city Lucknow “nawabo ka sehar”.

That moment was so enjoyable and amazing. Truly we felt like “smile, you are in Lucknow” (muskuraiye, aap lucknow mai hai) as you know it is the slogan of Lucknow to welcome everyone in their state.

True to its word, Lucknow is a gourmet’s paradise.  It’s the cleanest and the prettiest city I’ve ever seen in India. I couldn’t believe that there was hardly any litter on the streets of Lucknow and it is surprising in India.

Another thing that strikes my mind about Lucknow is that, like most other places in India, it doesn’t have a stray dog problem.

We finally visited Shikha’s home, where we saw a beautiful bunches of flowers and met an amazing family where we never feel like guests.

Actually, her family treated us as their own family members. The best thing I had was with the two little kids of the neighbor who became very familiar with me I played the whole day with them.

After that, we went to the park in the evening where we, all three friends enjoyed together.

After that, we had to attend the marriage ceremony of our friend so we got ready for the marriage party. We attended the marriage ceremony and after that, we explored the whole Lucknow whole night.

Firstly we visited front river which is a very beautiful place but we could be able to see everything clearly because it was night but the good thing was that we clicked a lot of pictures on the roads and it was like ‘swag in the air’.

In addition to that, we went to see Lucknow’s sights, like the magnificent Bara Imambara. We also went for Awadhi cuisine, which didn’t disappoint us and we got a panoramic view.

Since it was still night so we couldn't go inside but we saw it from outside and enjoyed that historical monument. So, now I can definitely recommend everybody to visit Lucknow-the capital of Uttar Pradesh once.