Radisson Jass Hotel-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 ...

... 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 ...

... which was given to the town by a Maharajah. It fell into disuse so they decided to transform it into a restaurant. It is now closed in, good job considering how cold it is and you can now enjoy your curry under a chandalier,listening to dreadful piped muzak (ok that was a minus point!) but the windows are big so you can watch the world go by as you eat. So the title of this entry wasn't a joke I really did have dinner in a bandstand!!! <br><br>For ...

... kan eten en slapen. De gouden tempel was prachtig! Uit de luidsprekers klonken heilige teksten, het gouden gebouw weerspiegelde in het vierkante meer waarin het lag en ervoor stond een kleurrijke rij van toegewijden die de tempel wilden bezoeken. Talloze mensen eten er elke dag, en de hele keuken wordt geheel gedraaid door vrijwilligers. Het eten, bestaande uit chapati, dal en zoete rijstepap, was heel lekker. Bijzonder omdat het in zulke enorme massa's ...

... to ban spitting and the honking of car horns. These habits seemed to be well-practiced of the populace so we were quite shocked. Even more shocking was that we saw a number of couples holding hands! Not heterosexual male to male or female to female affection which is quite common. But this was between (presumably) men and wives (most likely on honeymoon) and is quite a rare sight in this country where kissing on TV is censored. Shimla was indeed an unusual ...

... scary, the ponies sometimes trotting down a steep section. I kept feeling the horse was going to go end over end, and was easing my feet out of the stirrups in preparation for a leap to one side for most of the way, but nothing happened. That evening though, I was really sore. On the train, I'd made the mistake of answering Ankush's question about some of the dangers of cold weather. For the rest of the trip, Navin and Ankush would be showing ...

... that are connected to pipes that can provide sprinkler water jets to all the rooms in case of a fire. Rainwater is collected off the rood and stored in a large tank underneath the lawn outside the building so that it can be used to water the gardens. After the British pulled out of India in 1947, India's first Prime Minister, Nehru, used the Lodge as his summer home before it was handed over to use as some Indian institute of something or other studies which ...

... on the water tap to drink from and eat the offerings from devotees of the monkey god. Although these monkeys were living the life of Larry (is that the irish expression) surrounded by free food, they were stressed out to the max. Most had wounds from fighting, and when they ate, they ate at a warp speed trying to get down as much as possible before being interrupted by other dominant monkeys. I tried to take a feed rate for you Annika ...

... of achievement. So, you keep babbling purposefully. And all those who wanted you to speak that first word eventually wonder when you'd stop. Then comes the dreaded walking step which again, everyone around you anxiously waits for; and when you do manage to stand and start trudging to every corner hurting yourself ever so purposefully, you find everyone scurrying around you to make you sit for a while. And the DJ plays 'Learn ...