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Looking For a Quick Getaway? Try Chirimiri in Chattisgarh

Abhishek Mishra

Last updated: Apr 3, 2017

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Chirimiri comes under South East Coal Fields Limited, with several other industries around it. The railway station has a sign that reads – ‘Welcome to Chirimiri Hill Station’. The temperature did dip amazingly at night.

In the evening, the town, with most of its residents associated with the mines, was smothered by smog: coal as cooking fuel plus dipping temperatures. We stayed in a small rest house, which cost us Rs. 300 a night. The cook was from Bihar, and had the hand of god, when it came to adding the final touches to simple dishes.

About 17 kilometers from Chirimiri, starts a long and winding road, down the hills, towards Korba in Madhya Pradesh. That area, is full of semi-tribal villages, which had their own farms, and every Tuesday of the week, the villagers would drive to the town in their jeeps to sell the produce to the wholesalers and retailers in the markets of Chirimiri.

Promptly, the next day we visited the tribal localities, met up with them, ate with them, and visited their huts, which by design were far superior to our rented apartments in the cities. Mere basics cut down the heat when needed, and avoided the cold wind from entering the house, in winters. I was totally impressed with these geniuses who stay miles away from modern civilization.

amarkantak chattisgarh — Photo Credit: LRBurdak/wikipedia

A friend of my father's had worked in Chirimiri years back, and had built a rapport with the local folks, and had become a legend. Because of him, the hospitality we received in Chirimiri was over whelming. The evening before we left, some of the people who had made our stay in Chirimiri an experience of a life time, came to bid us farewell. Almost all said, ‘Sir, yahan tak aye ho, aur agar Amarkantak nahi gaye, to aap ka yahan aana bekar ho jayega. Amarkantak jayie, dekhiye, anand aa jayega’.

Abhishek Mishra

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