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Himachal in Winter 8/ The town which was loved by Noor Jahan

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We would have been denied of a wonderful town in Himachal Pradesh, had we not taken the decision of leaving Dalhousie before schedule. I was purely mersmerised by the beauty of the place. We received a very warm welcome by the staffs and the manager of the Himachal Tourism Hotel in Nurpur, as soon as we reached there. They were all in readiness after receiving the information from Dalhousie hotel that we are moving out to Nurpur. While we were checking out from Dalhousie in the morning, the manager told us that we can go to Nurpur, as Dalhousie’s extra day booking will automatically get transferred to Nurpur. The lunch was ready. After having the food, we went out to know the place. It was not that Nurpur was unknown to me. Infact, while surfing the Himachal related websites, I came across Nurpur quite a few number of times. But I didn’t have the idea, that Nurpur is also a gem of a place in the state. The first and foremost objective of Nurpur was to escape the ...
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Himachal in Winter 7/ On Netaji’s Trail

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As we started our journey towards Chamera Lake  from Subhas Bowli, we realized that it was not a wrong decision to cancel a night’s stay in Dalhousie and head to some other place.   Local sightseeing of Dalhousie has been completed by 9:30 am. So it would have been a loss, had we stayed for one more night here. Actually, we decided to cancel our second night’s stay in Dalhousie yesterday itself. Some members of our group were frightened by the extreme cold here. It’s a fact that we were facing the most dangerous cold of the tour in Dalhousie itself. Also the room of the hotel, where we were staying was also a reason for such a cold feeling. We checked in the Hotel Geetanjali, run by Himachal Tourism here in Dalhousie. It is a British-era building with massive rooms. Moreover, there are glass windows right near the ceiling. Cold winds were entering the room, from those windows. But the room heater which was provided was so tiny that it had no power to heat the r...
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