Mussoorie, India Travel Blogs

Indian tourist zone
May 1, 2008

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Into India
Aug 15, 2005

... , i did not ride on the back of an oversized Japanese man) Until you've take a sumo, you haven't really experienced India-- let me explain... take a normal looking jeep, and then cram at least four people into the front plus the driver and unlimited folks ...

Back in the U.K. Auli
Nov 2, 2007 (133 photos)

If i was to ever do some back country snowboarding this would be the bees knees. Completely open mountain in the back do some hiking and attack!

Extreme Bus Rider
Jan 24, 2007

... the Himalayas and cold. After the most terrifying bus ride yet up the Himalayan foothills, I am safely in a town called Mussoorie. Mussoorie is perched on top of a mountain at an elevation of 6,000 feet with the Himalayas towering above. From my hotel ...

Mussoorie
Mar 19, 2009 (36 photos)

We are in Mussorie, which is a hill station in the foothills of the Himalayas. It was a British tourist town from the 1940s. In a weird way it reminds Sandi of Clear Lake. The resorts must have been nice at some point, but they do not look to have ...

Christmas in India (empty)
Dec 25, 2006 (4 photos)

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Two Months In, Back in the Big City
Aug 16, 2008 (22 photos)

... cooped up inside for a while due to the rains and my Hindi final, but in our last weekend I did explore some parts of Mussoorie that I think are worthy of note. For one, there is the ferris wheel. I know what your thinking--'You Crazy? Wha yall doin ...

Safe in Mussoorie
Jun 30, 2008

... temperature is cool and the area heavily wooded with heavy rain for a good part of the day. We are actually not even in Mussoorie, but are housed about 15 minutes above it in a small village with a store that sells "provisions" as advertised by its sign. ...

How to Learn Hindi in 2.5 Weeks
Aug 30, 2007 (22 photos)

Language training began on Monday, and so far it's going much more smoothly than I expected!  Our group of 12 broke up into small classes of 4 people each for our Hindi lessons, so we all get lots of practice.  We have four 45-minute ...

Himalayas
Sep 11, 2005 (3 photos)

From Delhi we headed to the Himalayas, to a hill station called Mussoorie. As it is low season at the moment we were able to get a lovely hotel for half price...hooray! We have spent a relaxing 5 days wandering around, looking at the mountains, going on ...

Rocky road, but at last away from the noise
Oct 27, 2005 (9 photos)

The windy journey up here took only 3 hours but was tough, on Clare as we had to stop twice to err - decorate the side of the road. Poor girl has had a funny tummy since we arrived. She is being very brave though and soldiering on. I have been buying her ...

Freezing
Mar 25, 2007 (15 photos)

... the foot of the Himalya - a perfect spot for a pot of chai and some deep philosophical as well as spiritual conversations... Overall, Mussoorie seems like it will be one of those places that calls to me long after I leave it, gently asking and reminding me ...

Tiger Camp, Corbett Tiger Reserve!
May 11, 2006 (9 photos)

Spent an amazing 3 days in Tiger Camp - a nice resort in Corbetts Tiger Reserve with the hope of seeing Tigers! We did 5 jeep safaris over 3 days, either late afternoon or very early morning, when the animals were most active! Very exciting because we ...

Resting days waiting for the big step
Nov 22, 2008 (9 photos)

... Vipassana meditation course. That was not much time to travel around on the bike so I just opted for some lazy days in Mussoorie, a hill station where the Raj used to spend summer holidays. It is now a tourist spot for middle class Indians who will ...

from delhi to mussoorie
Jul 2, 2008 (21 photos)

... 30 seconds of silence just to take in the beauty and in that 30 secs we could hear the call to prayer from a mosque in mussoorie. As I right this I realize how cheesy it sounds but this was just too much... the craziest part is that we're gonna see it ...

The Queen of Hill Stations
Apr 11, 2009

Reading: Guns, Germs, And Steel by Jared Diamond

Riding the rails, Part I
Aug 27, 2007 (33 photos)

... bit nervous about the train ride, since I've been in some pretty chaotic train stations and had heard that the trains in India have rows of seats literally on top of eachother.  However, my train riding experience was as smooth as they come!  ...

Day 23
Jul 15, 2008 (36 photos)

... too, so no loss. Friday was spent with Goldie and Summer (the two girls we went to Rishikesh and Haridwar with) down in Mussoorie. We spent it shopping and looking around. I like Mussoorie a lot actually. It's a small town with just one main road ...

Last Day of Language School!
Jul 25, 2008

We just finished our final and we are now heading into town.  Just a quick update because we are going back to Delhi tomorrow and I don't know the next time I'll have internet access will be.  We both felt pretty good about our final.  ...

Himalayan Heaven
May 7, 2008 (58 photos)

After arriving in Dehra Dun and all our little conferences and form signing, we were informed that the girls and I would be lumped together for the next entire month....at first I was irritated, but they would soon grow on me... We were also told that we ...

Day 10
Jun 30, 2008 (10 photos)

We are now in Mussoorie.  The trip for Delhi to Mussoorie was unnecessarily long, about 12 hours.  We hit two hours of traffic on the way where we were basically at a stand still.  And for no apparent reason.  I guess some things don't ...

Day 28
Jul 19, 2008

... called "Landour Bazaar" that's where I got my shirts made.  It helps to zoom out then you can see the larger part of Mussoorie, where all the restaurants, bars, shops, and the ATM are.  That's how far we have to walk to go get some more cash.& ...

Day 20
Jul 11, 2008

... town in India?  We asked him if he had ever been to the states and he said "no I'm just a hillbilly I've only been to Mussoorie and Delhi my whole life."  It was so funny, he said he had just picked it up somewhere.  Also the guys at the ...

Queen of the hills
Jun 28, 2005 (5 photos)

... types: golden makaques, Hanumans, and two others that can scientifically be described as grey and black. The town of Mussoorie, like the rest of India (as was evident by the seven hour bus-ride up here), is dependant on and centered around the street. ...

The Zen of Mussoorie
Jul 3, 2008

Hi everyone! I'm settling into the Mussoorie routine pretty quickly, with school and meals giving the days here their shape. We wake up at 7, breakfast at around 7:40, and at a little after 8 we leave for class. We have four classes each day which ...

Punch Pooper no returns
Jul 1, 2005 (3 photos)

... go on a trip to Mussoorie, I got a little over-excited as I thought we were heading for America. I later learnt that Mussoorie is a hill station 6 hours north of Delhi, nestling in the foothills of the Himalayas. Known to the Indians as Queen of the Hills ...

The road to Mussoorie
May 10, 2008 (67 photos)

... I guess....                After a beautiful hike to Mussoorie, I spent the next several hours being dragged all over the goddamn town, sampling ice cream, because one of my companions ...

Hem Kund Sahib und Valley Of Flowers
May 30, 2007 (1 photos)

Wir wandern zusammen mit Kascha, einer Polin, die Wanderreisen fuer polnische Gruppen im Himalya fuehrt und jetzt zusammen mit ihrem Mann an einem Trekking-Buch zum indischen Himalya arbeitet, nach Gangaria. Am Weg wird gezimmert und gehaemmert was das ...

Pictures of Mussoorie
Sep 16, 2008 (32 photos)

I'm putting up picture finally. I gave up on Photobucket and am using this. I couldn't fit all the pictures of Mussoorie in that entry so here are pictures from my first full day in Mussoorie. Mussoorie was where I spent all of July in the Himilayas ...

Mussoorie madness
May 19, 2008 (34 photos)

Left the girls amid a rainshower this morning for Mussoorie....they are really starting to grow on me...especially Lauren...there is nothing quite like shared GI disasters to bring people together...The road to Mussoorie is an hour long winding deathrap ...