Powerplant for the Kalka Shimla line

Shimla For a Day

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August 27th 2008
Well, I made it safely out of Chandigarh on the toy train and man was the trip spectacular. A super steep track slowly winds its way through over 100 tunnels up the valley wall to the hill station of Shimla. Shimla was the summer home site for wealthy Indians, and the entire British Raj. As a result the towns architecture is somewhat strange, with a lot of the buildings looking like they could ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more