Last weekend, while on way to the peach valley of Rajgarh, I visited the Menri Monastery (1195m), situated at village Dolanji in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh. Located within a comfortable reach of Chandigarh, the region has always been a…
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Category: Himachal Pradesh, Travels
Tags: Blog, Bon, Bonpo, Chandigarh, Dalai Lama, Dolanji, Himachal, Lhasa, Menri, Monastery, Pradesh, Rajgarh, Religious, Senrab, Solan, Tibet, Tsang
As I began to recollect my experiences based on my visits to the spectacularly beautiful Baspa Valley, I felt that a wholesome travel-post on this activity-rich area would warrant a longish description. To make the reading more meaningful, I now…
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Category: Himachal Pradesh, Travels
Tags: Baspa, Chitkul, Gerard, Himachal, Kamru, Karcham, Kinnaur, Kinner Kailash, Mathi Devi, NH22, Rakcham, Raldang, Rampur, Rupin, Sangla, Satluj, Shimla
Before last year, I got a chance to visit Thanadhar, the upper sidearm of the fertile and scenic Kotgarh Valley in Himachal Pradesh. Although interlinked and part of the same valley, the road to the settlement of Thanadhar branches off…
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Category: Himachal Pradesh, Travels
Tags: Apple, Dhauladhar, Hatu, Himachal, Himachal Pradesh, Himalaya, Hindustan-Tibet, Kipling, Kotgarh, Narkanda, NH22, Rampur, Satluj, Shimla, Stokes, Thanadhar, Thanedhar, Theog, travel, Valley
My most recent trip to Kotgarh Valley came as a sweet surprise and just as the previous one to the region, was a totally unplanned one. The unavailability of a suitable accommodation at Narkanda, while on a family-trip last monsoon,…
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Category: Himachal Pradesh, Travels
Tags: Apple, Church, Golden, Gorton, Himachal, Hindustan-Tibet, Jubbal, Kotgarh, Kullu, Narkanda, Rampur, Satluj, Shimla, Stokes, Sutlej, Thanadhar, Thanedhar, Valley
The ensuing thoughts are based on my visit to the popular destination Solang late in the spring last year. Having visited Manali on numerous occasions serving varied purposes, it was only then when the long cherished wish to experience its…
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Category: Himachal Pradesh, Travels
Tags: adventure, Bara Banghal, Beas, Deodar, Himachal, Himalaya, Kothi, Kullu, Manali, Palchan, Photography, Pirpanjal, Rohtang, Solang, travel, Valley, Vashishth