Bright Land Hotel Shimla

Chanshal is a beautiful place.it is a snow covered range which released from the pabbar valley.
chanshal is 180 kilometers from shimla.chanshal peak 4220 meters highest peak of shimla district.

Chanshal is opened by road from may to October.chanshal is the mountain range of Himalaya.

the chanshal range has numerous slope.wh...

The road to Thanedar weaves through tiny mountain villages vibrant with fresh fruit and vegetable stalls, people dropping off and running onto huge buses that creak around hairpin bends at a scary speed! Below the staggering peaks lies cultivated land growing all sorts of vegetables! and as we get closer to our retreat, the built up areas dimini...

SIMLA



Simla has been in my consciousness
since I first read the Raj Quartet and Heat and Dust. On our first
trip to India, Steve kept hinting at trying to arrange a trip
there...but it never happened. And so it took 15 years, and my
in-laws to get me there!! In fact it took an overly comfortable train
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Greetngs from a less wet Shimla where I have now found freedom from Microsoft! I have just finished and failed my final Microsoft exam, but worry I do not as this one was a simple shot-in-the-dark Brucie bonus which I didn't really study for. I have now passed my main qualification (my MCSA 2003) through Koenig training solutions and will includ...

Hello Again, I am glad to say that I am writing this from the cool of Shimla in the Himachal Pradesh region. We were very glad to say that we've left Delhi behind although it wasn't as straight forward as we'd hoped. Somehow (and we still don't really know how) we managed to board the wrong train and we were halfway to Jaipur (west instead of no...

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, the trek 6 days. From there we make our own way by bus etc, probably to K...

Out of the desert and into the mountains... We took a public bus to Shimla, from Chandigarh (after an exciting tuktuk race through town from the train station). I had to run a bit to board the bus, since the driver decided to leave just as I was exiting the bathroom (even though Grant, and the rest of the group, was on board, along with my stuff...

Ho hum... I think these blogs must make such boring reading at the moment - nothing remotely interesting or exciting is happening to me!! Sigh... Well I'm going to write one anyway; update you all on my boring loser life heehee! Last Thursday it was my biiiirthday! Shame on those of you who forgot, thanks for the emails and messages everyone els...

Much has happened in the days following Rishikesh, a mere five days that have felt like a gorge of time, and it may take a few words and pictures to explain. I write on a large circular wonky desk, the sound of rushing water replacing the background of my thoughts, and a view of fir trees and towering mountains outside the mesh-screens of my win...