Hotel Leela Regency Shimla

... Pradesh is divided into 12 districts namely, kangra, hamirpur, mandi, bilaspur, una, chamba, lahul and spiti, sirmaur, kinnaur, kullu, solan and shimla. Roads are the major mode of transport in the hilly terrains of Himachal Pradesh. <br><br>The climate of Himachal Pradesh is cool to cold all the year round and is always inviting the tourists to enjoy a stay amidst the hills and mountains in the panoramic state of Himachal Pradesh.

... Victorian mock-alpine fancies, theme park gothic, and modern concrete Indian all fighting for space on the cliffs. <br><br>The main attraction is the old Vice-Regal lodge - a very grand building built in Scottish Baronial style, with a neatly manicured lawn and tidy flower beds in really looks out of place in India. Build in the late 1800s - with ducting ready for electricity long before it came to India. The brief tour takes you to the room where ...

... everything from here, but with not too much detais - just what I need. The coffin is put on the ground, the drummers stop and everyone sit here and there, taking some rest after the walk. Then some folks start gathering wood. How much lumber an average person needs? Well, at some point a car with more woods come, which are thrown down, almost making the funerals to a collective ones. The rest is just on the pictures... &#8232;Coming home I see a stack of ...

... beers, spirits and pizzas. He'd invited a couple of friends along who arrived with a load of hippies in tow offering stale cookies and handpicked flowers. The look on Steve's face was priceless. Chris got sat next to 'Spiv', ''Hi...most of my friends call me Spiv but you can also call me David'', a 19 year old dreadlocked English hippy. Kate almost fell over hearing Spiv trying to convince Chris to get dreads. Can you imagine. Steve sums it ...

... There again I visited the old monastery where beautiful paintings are hidden. There is a new monastery because this one is falling apart. It will only be opened in August when the Dalai Lama will come for 7 days to inaugurate it. The local people are looking forward to that event! There is a small lake here and the view around the village is breathtaking! Everywhere there are mountains and they are so close and beautiful, you just want to ...

... here it felt more like an old-fashioned frenetic marketty bit of Britain than real India. Well, sort of. Not sure how many monkeys there are in British towns these days, especially ones who steal the sugar pot from the tea tray as soon as you turn your back. We took a walk out to the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies. Not because I'd suddenly decided to go and hide in the large social sciences library but because said library was in the former dining room of the Viceroy ...

... Shimla with haste, catching the "toy train" the morning after we arrived there. But, we didn't take in the rural sights of terraced fields from the 93km, 6 hour train before a night in the dormitory section of a local Shimla hotel. The hotels were really expensive, so the four of us (we were with Cari and Bob then) shared a dorm room with a shared bath. This really intrigued the men in the other dorms- two young ladies washing their ...

... i'm at the fishing hot-spots. Already talked to him about some enfield parts i still have in my backpack; he might be interested in buying them :) Probably end up spending a week here, definately if the fishing is any good. Found a room for 80 rupees in an old wooden building, the food here is good and cheap, various guesthouses play admission free movies, so what else could i wish for :) Ok, that's all for now, will write some personal e mail soon. cheers, vincent

... of the paddle boats. Anyway, with the 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 see myself enthusing for 5 days about Le Corb's grand plan in the blazing hot weather.

... this route. Already praying for no more troubles in the trip, we did the needful. There were a few snaps clicked. Dharmvir got us some prasad and signaled us back into the jeep. In about an hours time, our jeep passed Naggar. The traffic along the road seemed to be increasing. Trucks carrying Sikh villagers from Punjab formed the majority of the traffic. Their destination was a gurudwara in Manikaran. When we reached Bhuntar, Dharmvir, much to my surprise ...