- Traveler Rating
14 reviews 13 travel blogs 25 photos Attraction Type:
Valley
Traveler PhotosKinnaur Shimla
Related BlogsKinnaur Shimla
-
1
Raj hill station
... cast a dappled shade across the line. Our destination lay some 6 hours or so up the mountain, Shimla was the summer retreat of the British in India with the first 'English' house being built there around 1822. The entire Indian government would ...
-
2
Monkeying around
... are hazy. But whatever. After some photos I set off for a place to ask about trekking. They proposed a shortish one in the Kinnaur area through to Spiti, which I had heard to be hard, but there are pictures of people doing it and they don't ...
-
3
The monsoon has arrived!
Found a map of the trek area - Shimla is in the bottom left. Kinnaur-Spiti trek The plan is Shimla - Sarahan - Sangla - Chitkul - Sangla - Kalpa - Kafnu [not on map, just to west of Recong Peo] by jeep. Then trek up north to near Mud. The jeep is 5 ...
-
4
Milam glacier, down to Rishikesh, up to Shimla
... rides along crumbling cliffs and some of the most beautiful places they've visited in India. I can't wait! ******************************************** Next up: the remote Kinnaur, Lahaul and Spiti valleys; the highest village (4200m) and some of ...
-
5
No plans at all
... I am not carrying any spares or tool kit for my bike but make it a point to get it checked before I set off from Shimla to Kinnaur. Should something happen to my bike, my contingency plan is as follows - 1) Drive 50 kms on a deflated tire, whatever ...
-
6
Shimla
We've luckily escaped the heat and smog of Delhi and made it to Shimla, former summer capital of colonial India. The increase in altitude (or more likely the decrease in smog) seems to be making Rick feel better (he had previously passed out and shat ...
-
7
Shimla
... leave on the 12th Sep bound for Kinnaur and Spiti Valley - apparently the "most beautiful valleys in the Himalaya". To get past Kinnaur Valley(rich Hindu farming area), and into Spiti (high altitude desert scape), you have to hire a jeep and get a ...
-
8
Himalaya
... them say. But Vikash, either truthful or diplomatic, said they thought it a good thing. They and others all through the Kinnaur Valley were wearing the traditional wool pillbox hat with a green felt band. The Kinnauri people wear their hat with pride ...
-
9
Surprises in Shimla
... to pick on us poor smokers. Anyway, I have a bus ticket for tomorrow evening. Next stop is Rekong Peo, which leads to both Kinnaur and Spiti Valleys. If the word on the street is true, there is no rain in Spiti, plus it's so remote and isolated that ...
-
10
Shimla, Kinnaur and Sangla Valleys
... modlidby na koralkach, kterym se rika modlici koralky-kazdy budhista je nosi.Ten sami den jsme se ubytovali v campu zvane Kinnaur camp, kde jsme dostali ohromny stan s 5 postelema ,splachovaci toaletou a proutenym nabytkem,vazne super a mistni nam ...
Kinnaur Map
