Shimla Sight Seens Gallery
With all of seven hills
to call its very own and yet, a surprisingly compact geographic area, coupled
with an enormous amount of history and a rare range of built heritage,
Shimla has all the ingredients that make for a series of interesting walks.
Shimla Sight Seens Gallery
These are not exercise
trails, but have been charted to provide a window to the town's remarkable
past. En route cornes architecture that harks back to the time when the
town was the 'summer capital' of British India and the seat of one of the
most powerful governments in the world - and this is enlivened by stretches
of woodland.
Shimla Sight Seens Gallery
Ranging from the sedentary
to the mildly strenuous, these walks hope to enhance the quality of your
stay in Shimla and showcase some of the town's more remarkable features.
The seven hills of Shimla are - prospect Hill (in westem Shimla, which
has the temple of Kamna Devi), Summer Hill (in western Shimla, which has
the campus of the Himachal Pradesh University),
Shimla Sight Seens Gallery
Observatory Hill (in
western Shimla, which holds the estate of the Indian Institute of Advanced
Study, the forrner Viceregal Lodge ), Mount Pleasant (in western Shimla,
whose top has the State Museum at 'Inverarm'), Bantony (central Shimla,
which has the Grand Hotel), Jakhoo ( central Shirnla, which is crowned
by the temple dedicated to Lord Hanuman) and Elysiurn (north- western Shimla,
which holds the Auckland House School and Longwood, and reaches out towards
the Bharari spur).
Shimla Sight Seens Gallery
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