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Shimla Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Shimla, India
Raj hill station
This is a top pick! ... 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 decamp ...
Monkeying around
This is a top pick! Rudely woken at 5.30am by what sounded like someone beating a sheet of metal with a stick. Turned out to be monkeys on the roof. They are everywhere - the males grinding their teeth at each other and getting the dogs all excited, the smaller females ...
To Shimla on the Himalayan Queen
This is a top pick! ... she was not on the train. In their haste to open the window and check they slammed my arm in it. Ouch. At 7pm we got to Shimla, and I shared a taxi with the Belgians to the lift in town. This is the way to get up the hill to the main bit of town, ...
200 kms in just 10 hours
This is a top pick! ... any kind of road surface. This could explain the inexplicable number of times we stopped to rotate the tires on the trip to Shimla. The first time was only 30 minutes into our drive. We stopped at a bus stand to pick up more ...
Food Food Food
This is a top pick! ... a bottle of apple liquor. My second breakfast is 6 red, juicy apples, fresh from the orchards of Himachal! My day in Shimla is spent in gastronomic excesses and watching the cricket match between India and Pakistan. The day ends too fast and I realize ...
Reality bites
This is a top pick! The train to Mumbai leaves from Kalka, so thats where I am headed. It is hot and stuffy here, but maybe after the snowstorms and blizzards I have been through in the past week, everything will seem hot and stuffy! I visit Pinjore Gardens, a must see on ...
Mutual People Watching in Shimla
This is a top pick! ... plains into the Himalayan foothills, through tunnels and over hundreds of small bridges. The hill station of Shimla, once the summer capitol of British India, was our first stop in the mountains, highlighted by breakfast in the Indian Coffee House, a ...
The monsoon has arrived!
This is a top pick! 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 days, ...
I Wore Socks!
This is a top pick! ... year they would move up here. Indeed, the sign stated that, at one point, "1/5 of the world's population was ruled from Shimla." And you are not even allowed to spit and litter! It would have absolutely made my day to see someone ...
British Holiday Town
This is a top pick! ... becomes bigger as you progress, and then winds up through the mountains for 3 or 4 hours, panoramic scenery, and not bad company. shimla, was what the British used as there summer capital (away from the heat of Calcutta) for a 100 years, and the whole ...
Milam glacier, down to Rishikesh, up to Shimla
This is a top pick! ... , seems to have burnt down last year, and they're busy constructing a new roof. For 7 months per year Shimla used to be the capital of India: the government, first based in Calcutta, 7000km away, later in nearby Delhi, would move (paperwork, civil ...
I HEART MONKEYS
This is a top pick! ... in the streets, stealing food from stalls, munching on snacks wherever they can find a place safe from other thieves. In Shimla, our contact with monkeys was taken to a new level. There we went to visit the Jakhu Temple, dedicated to the ...
No plans at all
This is a top pick! ... . 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 ...
Shivering In Shimla..
This is a top pick! ... to Delhi (The Himilayan Queen). Certainly one of the more scenic trips we're likely to do and certainly worth doing if you ever have the chance. A very nice way to spend the day. And that's Shimla. Next Pod - Jaipur, India. Love, Nath and ...
delhi or bust and a scary trip to shimla....
This is a top pick! ... head out the window and there he was hanging onto the bumper at the back, a brave man indeed.... Before i get to shimla , i must now advise you that our lack of correspondence is due to slight bowl problem , which has slightly restricted our movement ...
Not very Shimla to the last place
This is a top pick! ... encounter with a cow on the line, but unfortunately for the driver it was pronounced not for ressucitation, bad Karma! Made it to Shimla about 5.30pm and were beseiged by touts, eventually we gave into one who then blew it by telling us that all the ...
Hill Station in the Himalayas (one of the largest)
This is a top pick! ... invisible, as people set a walking course directly crossing in front of you, aiming for a straight collision. However, being in Shimla, there is more than a normal percentage of Indian tourists, and very few western/ white-skinned tourists. Then I become ...
Sitting with the sick, watching tv
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Sherpa Johnsons go forth
This is a top pick! ... this town as their summer retreat. In the days of the British Empire the whole Calcutta (and later Delhi) government offices were transplanted to Shimla to escape the heat for about 3 - 4 months. The views were amazing as it was such a lovely day and we ...
Le Corbusier's Model City?
This is a top pick! ... order placed, and my new lenses to replace my existing ones in my present specs, I decided to shoot off for 5 or so days to Shimla, ie back into the lower Himalayas, ex-British hill station (and a very large one), cooler weather, and after all, I couldn't ...
Fire!!
This one is especially for Nicky, thought you might like to see the Shimla fire station. It is literally in the middle of a row of shops and it is so small most of the fire engines have to stay ...
Lahore-Shimla
... . It was quite a humbling experience as we ate alongside thousands of visitors and hungry locals. Today we visited Jakhu temple in Shimla, the temple of the monkey god, Lord Hanuman. It was quite an experience and we're looking forward to the chance of ...
Motor Cycle Diaries Day 1
... and had stopped on the way for a number of photos and fresh orange juices. Until the British arrived, there was nothing in Shimla but a sleepy forest glade. As its 2200 meters above sea level its alot coo ler and in 1822 a Scottish guy built a ...
Let Them Eat Cake
... , we stepped back in time to the old British Raj era, by boarding the British built toy train up to the old summer capital, Shimla. Fortunately, there were no leaves on the track so we made it up the steep 5 hour journey into the hills. We were adopted by ...
Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
... The High Street is very distinctive - mock Tudor like a Surrey market town. Definitely not what you'd expect in the middle of India but quite refreshing all the same. There's a great restuarant in the bandstand and the views out to the Himalayas are very ...
Delhi to Shimla: The Great Escape
... of days recharging our batteries, digesting all the things we saw in Delhi and have now booked a hiking tour for tomorrow. Shimla is a nice little town springing off the side of a hill just over 2000m above sea level. It's really an ...
Dare to Dream
... beauty “Shoghi” will reveal itself. And again you have to control yourself. By the time we reach close to Shimla beautification of nature gets intensified. And finally here is Shimla. In spite of all chaos of a big hill station, everything ...
Shimla
A narrow gauge toy train pulled us up the mountain, serving sweet milk tea and vegetable croquets on the way. Shimla is a town perched along a ridge somewhere around 7,000 feet. It spans vertically nearly as much as is does horizontally and long paved ...
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 ...