Krish Rauni Resort Shimla

... for anybody who wanted to cool their mind and senses off the heat and sultry of Indian summers. Himachal Pradesh has been bestowed with picturesque beauty that is incorporated in the various hill stations. You can experience peace and serenity by visiting various pilgrimage destinations like temples and monastery in Himachal Pradesh that are really stupendous. There are many colonial monuments that form the monumental ...

... Victorian mock-alpine fancies, theme park gothic, and modern concrete Indian all fighting for space on the cliffs.

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 ...

Headed out of Delhi on the fast train to Kalka - in class AC Seater 2nd (Indian railways have numerous, complicated classes). Neatly uniformed staff bringing a seemingly endless number of things a newspaper, bottles of water, tea (naturally), food. All very comfortable and efficient, whizzing across the plains of Northern India. You do however see some horrible shanty towns clustered by ...

... his nickname is Sam, he is 24 and is a Physics teacher at Rampur. He lives in Mehli with his 2 sisters in a suburb of Shimla. Later he invited me to have dinner and stay the night at his cousin Yog's (Yoghesh) apartment. It was really fun to spend the day with his extremely friendly friends and family who made extra effort that I feel comfortable and at home.

... pine, deodar and rhododendron forest. St. Michael's Chatedral, Kufri, Jakhoo hill, Annandale, Chadwick Falls and Mashobra are some of the interesting locations for sight seeing. Manali: Manali tops the list of Indian honeymoon destinations for its pleasant and tempting weather and landscape beauty. Manali is a hill station located at the Himalayan mountains in ...

... Gandhi made regular trips here and the whole plan for separation (India - Pakistan) was thrashed out here. The grounds are expansive and woody, overlooking the mountains. Hey! Guess what?! NO FORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aren't you all pleased to hear that??! We walked down 'the Mall'. Blindly thinking this was a Mall that would house big shops and a McDonalds (!) we were instantly thrown into a 4-mile stretch of winding road, edged with a ...

... down the hill which they felt better about. Jenny told me I was welcome to come along as long as there was room for 6 in the jeep. I said I'd come down to check it out myself. After a few minutes of thinking [the 6 in a jeep would mean a slight squish, everyone is ok with that as it is offset by having the price split 6 ways instead of 5, but the 6th person will not have a window seat. As the tag along, this is obviously me, but I ...

Still here! And still surviving, miraculously! I'm very impressed with myself for sticking it out here for so long, if I do say so myself! :o) So where did I leave off last time?! I didnt end up staying with Nita in the end - think she was too busy entertaining other people to remember about me :o( It was fine though, didnt mind being on my own just for that week! My eyes returned to normal, which was good as I would have gone crazy not being able to work for another ...

... of Goddess Kali. One of the world's largest hill stations, Shimla was discovered by the British in 1819, prior to which it was part of the Nepalese kingdom. Getting there Even at 10:30 p.m., the ½ mile radius encircling the Old Delhi Train Station portends the madness within. Arriving early is both a blessing and a curse; a blessing as it allows time to squeeze past, step over and otherwise dodge the masses while keeping your wits about you to turn down porters, shoe shiners ...

... with our bags, getting directions from police, or stalls, tourist info, but they followed us all the way to the hotel (30mins up steep hills), insisting they didn't want anything, i belive that Jamey even told them to 'f@#* off'. it can be very disconcerting to have 4 or 5 people, pretending not to be walking with you, but actually surrounding you on all sides, in the dark, in a strange place, with big heavy bags on, tired, and not ...