Hotel White Shimla

... breathing in the color green tinged with pale gray. Sweet medicine for all that ails. Doing Shimla We arrived at our hotel in Shimla, to warm greetings (no on in the staff allowed us to pass without a smile and a welcome) and were immediately ...

... us all the way to our chosen hotel. It wasn't a fantastic choice - and we swtiched the next day to the excellent hotel White. The High Street is very distinctive - mock Tudor like a Surrey market town. Definitely not what you'd expect in the middle ...

... menu and fantastic cake counter for dessert. HPTDC (located on the train station & on The Mall) organizes few sightseeing tours around Shimla. One day tour by coach is about Rs 250/per person – leaves at 10.30 am till 6.30pm Shimla official ...

... , up to the train station. The train station looked very clean and well kept with nice blue and white paint. I found the correct platform for the train to Shimla (known as the Himalayan Queen) thanks to a big sign saying "Trains to Shimla". There were ...

... reasonably hot! We bolt ourselves in our broken room in our sleeping bags to make this place bearable! So a final morning in Shimla before our Guinness Book of Records train ride for the afternoon. Walked to the train station to leave our big luggage in ...

... up the valley(s) would also mean being further and further away from Delhi and subsequent train connections. Infact I felt isolated in Shimla - a feeling I'd never had before - almost cut off! For a few days I agonised over what to do - I'd come to ...

... It wasn't as it looked like some guys were renovating inside, which is good to see. I worked out that I shall only spend today in Shimla and leave for Dharamsala by bus in the morning so I started to make my way downhill to the bus station. On the way ...

... 50km/h so it was slow going. The road was good and the views were great as we crawled up the mountainsides again. Shimla is a brash hill station, a mountain-ridge town at 2100m that was popularised by the British has now been fully Indianised... it's ...

... nbsp; As some 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 ...

... stalls/restaurants) before a sharp turn up a hill and onto the Ridge which has a big square with lots of statues. There was the Shimla Summer Festival on there all last week and it was even more of a hive of activity than normal - a real big deal too - ...

... . The hotel in Mcleod Ganj was fab but a tad damp and as I was due to be in the mountains again in Shimla I didn't want to risk another cheaper hotel or guest house, have the same problem and get sick. So treated myself to a proper hotel. Have a massive ...

... 'Dreamland' was the coldest we have been in India so far - the first time it has been too cold! We're now in a place called White Hotel which is very nice - it even has toilet paper in the rooms and a working shower. There isn't much to do in Shimla but ...

... was the 'wedding season' and many of those with whom we chatted were part of a wedding party. The atmosphere in Shimla had a wonderful relaxed 'English summer afternoon' feel to it ...a fantastic contrast to the very Indian plaines of Rajisthan. ...

... the 72 point turn, so by this stage I was a good 40km’s in front of them). My job therefore, was make it to Shimla, find our hotel and book us all in, then if all things went according to plan they would meet me there later on. The rest of the ...

... , a not a cloud in the clear blue sky, unobscured by all the smog I've grown used to in Delhi.   We reached Shimla around 2 pm, and immediately fell into the evil clutches of a hotel tout.  These guys hang around train and bus stations, ...

... mountainous roads without seatbelts. Often in torrential rain. Without windscreen wipers. I am serious. Arriving at another suburb of Shimla away from the town itself we pulled up outside a non-descript building with a chemist and mobile phone ...

... walk but requires climbing ropes and a fully equiped team of Sherpas. G pathetically crying "Carry, carry" to a deaf audience. Downtown (uptown?) Shimla is lovely. Old British houses, no cars, big central square, not many people, no one trying to sell you ...

After a lovely week in Dharamsala and still no sign of the Dalai Lama we decided to head to Shimla. Shimla was another 8 hour white knuckle taxi ride from Dharamsala. The journey could be described as being a bit like a ride on the big ...

... and deteriorating........as are most of these old British Raj properties in Shim la........ just to add a bit of background history, Shimla was discovered by the British in approx 1819 prior to this it was part of the Nepalese Kingdom, the ...

... time there are a large number of fatalities due to fireworks. I heard there were 7 burns victims from the little incident here in Shimla I mentioned last time. We had been out all day and were back in our room for a meal at the beginning. Not long ...