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A popular destination in North India, Himachal Pradesh makes for a great road trip with ones family and friends. Experience Himachal: On the Road takes a travel enthusiast on a road journey, in ones own or a hired vehicle, to the exotic locales of Himachal highlighting popular sites of interest and capturing the local flavour of the state. The guide charters long trips that last up to 7 days to shorter trips that involve 1 to 3 days. The book offers a first hand ...
As the summer capital of the Raj, Simla came to be known as the workshop of the Empire. An awed visitor wrote, Every pigeonhole contains a potential revolution, every office box cradles an embryo of a war or death… The heady mixture of hill air, political power and social snobbery held an irresistible allure. Ambitious careerists, calculating matrons with daughters to marry off, enigmatic adventuresses, bored young wives, and dashing roués flocked ...