Shimla, India Travel Blogs

Raj hill station
Jun 23, 2005 (13 photos)

... 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 ...

Mutual People Watching in Shimla
Jun 27, 2007 (15 photos)

... 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 ...

Monkeying around
Jul 8, 2007 (1 photos)

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 and ...

Food Food Food
Apr 10, 2005 (3 photos)

... 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
Apr 13, 2005

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 ...

To Shimla on the Himalayan Queen
Jul 7, 2007

... afforded by the lack of vehicles was worth it. I had the honour of being trapped in the lift door by my backpack. Shimla is at 2200m so hopefully this counts slightly as acclimatisation for the trek. The hotel we chose was Hotel Dreamland - a single ...

The monsoon has arrived!
Jul 8, 2007 (1 photos)

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, ...

British Holiday Town
Oct 30, 2005 (2 photos)

... 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
Jun 26, 2004

... , 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 ...

No plans at all
Apr 4, 2005 (3 photos)

... . 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 ...

delhi or bust and a scary trip to shimla....
Nov 1, 2004 (3 photos)

... 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 ( ...

Shivering In Shimla..
Oct 19, 2006 (12 photos)

... 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 Kat.

Not very Shimla to the last place
Nov 12, 2004 (2 photos)

... 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 hotels were ...

Sitting with the sick, watching tv
May 4, 2008

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Hill Station in the Himalayas (one of the largest)
Jun 10, 2006 (15 photos)

... , 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 an object ...

Sherpa Johnsons go forth
Aug 14, 2003

... 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 were ...

Fire!!
Oct 24, 2009 (2 photos)

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 outside!!! 

Lahore-Shimla
Nov 10, 2008

... . 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
Sep 4, 2008 (14 photos)

... 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 ...

Shimla
May 29, 2008

Camped on a mushroom growers rooftop

Let Them Eat Cake
Oct 19, 2006 (5 photos)

... , 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, Kinnaur and Sangla Valleys
May 3, 2006 (20 photos)

... relief on our return to normal roads! Czech - Z Mc loud Gange jsme dorazili do hlavniho mesta Himalay pradesh zvane Shimla, jelikoz jsme dorazili 12 hodinovym autobusem v pozdnich vecernich hodinach a velikem slijaku, bylo to pro nas o to tezsi najit ...

Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
Sep 29, 2005 (4 photos)

... 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
Sep 20, 2007 (5 photos)

... 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 Indian& ...

Shimla
Apr 23, 2006 (2 photos)

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
Jul 7, 2008 (2 photos)

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 ...

Last post from India.
Sep 13, 2005

... Goa was probably the best place we stayed. It felt like a holiday, with lots of bars and amazing beaches everywhere. Anyone coming to India should start there. Well thats it for my tales of India. Ill try get online when I get to Bangkok and let you know ...

Shimla weekend
Nov 7, 2005 (26 photos)

My last weekend in India was spent in Shimla, a hill station in the Himalayan mountains. It was absolutely beautiful! I will write more soon...

Shimla and Chandigarh
Dec 8, 2006

... ! It was easy to pick up the story and they often dropped english words or sentences into the script which helped a little. Shimla reminded me of a small english seaside town where people walk along the promenade eating popcorn and ice cream. as i walked ...

Where the English went in the Summer
Apr 29, 2008 (10 photos)

... Lonely Planet.  It has great views over the mountains and is calm and quiet and it has it's own (fast) internet connection. Shimla is the capital of the state of Himachal Pradesh in India, with a population of around 145,000.  Located at ...