A station stop

Journeys in Himachal Pradesh - Part 1: To Shimla

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November 29th 2014
When travelling as we are it often the journey to a place or through an area that makes the experience and not the destination. Our experiences in the Northern State of Himachal Pradesh have emphasised this. We entered the state from Kulka in the Punjab on the famous narrow gauge train opened in 1909 to supply the summer Raj capital of Shimla. To get to Kulka from Chandigarh we had taken t ... 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