🗺️ Which place in India have you never made it to?

My friends are tired of me asking this, but which place in India have you never visited? Mine is Kashmir. Gulmarg to be exact. I'm 35 and it's still just a wallpaper on my phone. I've been working in Khobar for years now, and every trip home to Hyderabad has some family function packed in. So Kashmir keeps losing to weddings, to Ramzan timing, to leave that gets cancelled 2 days before. The dream started when I was a kid. Hyderabad summers were brutal and my school had one poster of snow mountains. I used to stare at it during maths class. Later the films made it worse, all those songs in white fields. I've planned the trip with friends 4 times. Every plan died in the group chat before anyone booked a single ticket. Last year 2 of them finally went without me. I saw the photos and felt strangely jealous for a week. My wife says stop talking and book it. She has her own list, Munnar and Coorg and a tea garden somewhere. Part of me is scared the real place won't match the poster in my head. That's silly, I know. The friends who went said it was better than the photos. One of them cried at the snow, he told me. I don't believe the crying part but I do believe the rest of it. His photos looked unreal. So I'm putting it here so somebody can hold me to it. Next winter, 1 week, no excuses. If you've been to Gulmarg, tell me what month to go. I can only take leave in the cooler part of the year. And tell me the place you keep postponing too. It's the weekend and I'd like something lighter than the usual threads. I'll go first on the excuse list. Leave, Ramzan, friends, and a fear of cold hands.

Makkah and Madinah, brother, without a doubt, these are the most beautiful and closest to the heart places in the entire world for me, nothing else really compares in terms of what they mean spiritually. Seeing the Kaaba Shareef and Masjid-e-Nabawi ﷺ with my own eyes has been a lifelong dream I've held onto for as long as I can remember. May Allah grant everyone reading this the chance to visit and perform ziyarat there at least once. Ameen.

Hampi is a good pick, Mohammed. A colleague here in Khobar went last year and came back with 400 photos of rocks. He kept sending them to the group, so I know the place better than he does now. I'm trying to fit both in. Hampi in the monsoon, Kashmir next winter, if leave allows. Nobody has told me yet if Gulmarg is fine for someone who hates carrying a jacket around.

Mine would be Hampi. I've said I'll go since 2018 and keep picking the beach instead, every time. My cousin went last Diwali and sent me boulder photos at 6 in the morning. I replied with a sad face. Kashmir sounds nice but the cold scares me. I get a runny nose in Hyderabad in December already. Book Gulmarg first, then tell us if the cable car queue is as long as people say.