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Shimla Slideshow
Shimla
Travel Blogs from Shimla, India
my birthday
today day is the special day for me becauseon this day i was coming in this world. this day is most pricious for ...
so much trainedge.
We left the sleeper at Kalka at about 4 in the morning (pain) and then boarded the next train to Shimla. Unfortunately, it had no beds, which would have been greatly appreciated, and just had chairs that could be changed to face each direction. I can't ...
Un air britannique à Shimla
... à flanc de montagnes, en bondissant horriblement à cause du mauvais état de la suspension. Nous étions contentes d'arriver! Shimla, comme Dharamsala, est une autre ville nichée à flanc de montagne. La place centrale se trouve sur la crête de ...
Jaipur - Himachal Pradesh - Prison Train
... then informed it was an extra hour to wait. I have come to the notion that their are two types of time here. Tourist time and India time, in which the latter involves being told a time and then adding several hours on to it. So by the time the train was ...
11 hour journey to shimla
only gonna be here for one night before the toy train but i thought i would include it!!coming down through the mountains on the bus was amazing so included a few pictures! ...
Ever shared a hot tub with 6 Indian men?
... to disclose what she usually calls them, especially if grandparents are reading it! We are in Tattapani, it's about 2 1/2 hours from Shimla, we've only come for the evening as there is not much to do here but wander round the very small town, ...
Shimla
... . He pointed us in the direction of the ticket booth and we all bought our tickets for 9:41 AM the next day. The bus from Shimla to Dharamsala takes about 10 hours. I've just realized that a lot of my time in India has been spent in buses and trains. The ...
Shimla - the capital of Himachal
... just spreads out and over the tops of the mountains. But I am getting ahead of myself. The journey to Shimla itself is a feat. So we left Chandigarh in the morning for the interstate bus station to catch a bus to Kalka. ...
The Hills
Shimla was a tourist town for sure, but the strange part about it is that it was really aimed towards the Indian tourists instead of the western tourists, and there really werent all that many westerners there. It was basically a ski resort town ...
It's fun to stay at the YMCA
... a YMCA. Although it could very well have been a Sound of Music - the hills are alive reference as am in Shimla which is a major hill station that became the favourite summer escape for the British government/administration from Delhi. Its an amazing ...
Breath of fresh air
... Viceroy’s lodge – a disappointing tour of the lodge but a pretty old building. We didn’t do much else in Shimla, walked through the town, markets and watched an amazing sunset on our last night before we boarded a deluxe bus to our next ...
Shimla
Now in Shimla. At higher altitude than Mcleod and with valley both sides of the central town area views all round are fantastic especially today as its clearer. We arrived very early yesterday morning and had to spend 2 hrs looking for hotels carrying our ...
Brrrr chilly beautiful Himalaya
... visit the Himalaya and not only that but we were about to take one of the most famous train rides in all of India; the toy train from Kalka to Shimla. This line was opened in 1903, built by the British and was an amazing feat of engineering for the era. ...
How did they all get up here
... motor along and toot for people to get out of the way and get annoyed when they didn't! Sorry but I don't understand. Saying that Shimla is our favourite Indian place, it so clean. The next day we walked around town and got a taxi to the Vice Regal ...
Oct 15, 2011
Shimla
... grace; we found a coffee shop which makes very decent lattes, and not only that, the coffee shop was also heated. The days in Shimla we spent doing loads of walking to temples and other sites. It was good, although I was attacked my a monkey. A local ...
Shimla
... . And in this entry is a video compiled of monkeys I saw throughout Northern India and Rishikesh along with another original song for The Sonic Nomad Project. The first set of 10 or so photos are from the bus ride to shimla and the rest are ...