Honeymoon Inn Shimla

Himachal Pradesh is known as Deva Bhoomi the land of the gods. Himachal is situated in the western Himalayas. Himachal Pradesh is a mountainous state elevating about 350 meters (1,148 ft) to 6,000 meters (19,685 ft) above the sea level. Tribes such as the koilis, kinnars and kirats inhabited the region from pre-historic era. Himachal Pradesh was established as a state on April 15, 1948. <br><br>Himachal Hill Stations is the favored ...

... papers were signed to end British rule, and split India and Pakistan. As we left we saw something even more jarring on a building that looked like it should be in Scotland - a monkey walking across the ramparts of the lodge. <br><br>On the subject of monkeys., Shimla has a lot of monkeys, a lot of very confident monkeys. Its main temple is dedicated to the monkey god, so they have the run of the place. We hired sticks to ward off monkeys - they can ...

... So I spent the whole day sitting at a coffee and rearranging the stuff. In the evening sitting in the reasuarant I had a a vidoe call with the dad - that's the way to go. The bus to Dharamsala was leaving at 2100. Hope this will be the last one for me to put on all the warm clothers I have :)<br>

... So as one train slowly snakes into a station the disks are used and the oncoming train waits on a side rail until the other train clears. Along the way however, we had an Aussie friend Kelvin who we met at the cricket and was joining us on the ride to Shimla. At one of the stations he decided to get out and take photos of the lavatories at the station. (Don't know why, there was really nothing special about these ...

... could be seen as an anarchist... I could write more for the record but I will spare you, so much experienced in such a short time I feel I might burst with all this culture! Alas, the altitude takes it out of you and I am a tired. Goodnight until next time when I hope to have done some study! Postscript - having to use the flaky net at the training centre during my lunch. If they don't sort my access at the hotel there won't be much more until uhh - later... ;)

... It's the place to stock up on food before going further. But since it was too late to catch a bus for Kaza (12 hour journey); after getting my permit I went to Kalpa, a much more interesting village. From there you are higher and even closer to the mountain. I thought I was gonna die went I climbed up the path with my heavy bag to get to a cheap guesthouse (my neighbor was a cow), but it was well worth the effort for the amazing view I had ...

... of the few white people in Shimla, we were popular photo subjects. We spent two nights in Shimla at the Hotel Victory, delayed slightly by my developing Delhi belly. We visited the Jakhu Temple, dedicated to Hanuman the monkey God. We were warned by signs on our way up the hill to remove our glasses and sunglasses to avoid having them snatched by the macaques that are residents ...

... across. The most prevelent and the cheapest are the local,local busses. These stop for anyone, anywhere on the road, who puts their hand out. Anytime- even if they stopped literally 10 feet back to let someone else on or off. So these don't get anywhere fast and generally the people don't see a lot of white people and we get a lot of stares. The perk is that they are everywhere and they are really easy to catch. The next step up is a semi- long distance bus ...

... attention and saluted as we drove in! Craziness! I spent all of the next day with one class - moving round with them to their different lessons. They were quite young and so CUTE - I'll probably stay with them for a while. The music teacher, Kanti, is awesome (she's also the House Mother at the Little White House) - we ended up dancing round to 'American Pie' with the kids, doing the conga and pulling faces in the mirror! After school finished and the day-kids had ...

... 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 completely empty. We got quite a good discount on our room in the end. Shimla could be described as every Daily Mail readers' worst nightmare, "St Albans over-run by the Hindu community!". Its architecture is all very English, esp with ...