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
The following is a page entry from On Road through the trans-Himalayan Region. To read complete travel memoirs and trip report, please visit here. Chapter 17 of 22 Previous Post …
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Category: Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Trans-Himalayas, Travels
Tags: Doda, featured, Great Himalayan Range, Hangshu, Haptal, Haskira, Jammu & Kashmir, Kange, Kargil, Karsha, Ladakh, landscape, Monastery, Mulung, Padum, Pensi La, Phe, Photography, Rangdum, Sani, Stod, Suru, travel, Zanskar, Zaskar
The following is a page entry from On Road through the trans-Himalayan Region. To read complete travel memoirs and trip report, please visit here. Chapter 12 of 22 Previous Post …
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Category: Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Trans-Himalayas, Travels
Tags: Choglamsar, Gompa, Hemis, Himalayas, Indus, Jammu & Kashmir, Kargil, Karu, Ladakh, landscape, Leh, Maitreya, Manali-Leh, Masho, Monastery, Namgyal, Road Trip, Shey, Sindhu, Stakna, Stok, Thikse, Tibet, trans-Himalayas, Zanskar
The rainy spell, which lasted a couple of days, during my recent visit to the Kalesar National Park provided me with a prospect to visit some of the lesser-known destinations located nearby the forest. Although the unrelenting spells of shower…
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Category: Haryana, Travels
Tags: Akbar, Birbal, Buddhist, Buria, Dayalgarh, Harshavardhan, Haryana, Hindu, Hinduism, Historical, Hiuen Tsang, Jagadhri, Kalesar, Monastery, Mughal, Yamuna, Yamunanagar