Ki Monastery is a thousand-year-old Buddhist gompa located in the remote region of Spiti in the Indian Himalayas. The passes into this area are blocked by snow for six months of the year, thus the Tibetan culture here has remained intact. Photo by Jannaca Chick. The hill-top Ki monastery is the most prominent feature of [...]

Tabo Monastery!

Teaching One more great example of generosity comes from Tikarani Shailja Kumari, born the eldest daughter of the house of Sailana. She is a Graduate in Econonic Honors from St.Xavers Ahmedabad. She is a Director of Kangra Hotels Pvt.Ltd and also runs a Primary School in Dharamsala ” Happy Hours Public School “. She started [...]

Story and photos by David Rich The Spiti Valley and its neighboring valleys are among the most remote in the world, lying on the border with Tibet in a seldom-traveled corner in the far north of India, smack-dab in the middle of the mystic Himalayas. The valleys are accessible a few months of the year [...]

Para Gonomad.com has discussed the travel to McLeod Ganj, DharamShala, HP in great detail. Mostly McLeodGanj is now taken as a Tibetean colony more rather than as a part of Himachal because the spirtual leader of Tibet, Dalai Lama staying over there. During last decade many Hollywood stars have become great followers of HH Dalai [...]

I found few sweet local songs on this website, you can also buy them. Himachal Pradesh is the land of mountains, rivers and beautiful landscape. Most songs of the region reflect the natural beauty of the land. Rajinder Singh & party belong to Chamba and sing songs of the shepherds known as the Gaddis. Many [...]

A Hero Journey. A unique and truly heroic, adventurous and appreciable concept! Alexandar Souri born to a French mother and Indian father is working towards this great effort. He calls it a Humanitarian based adventure travel company. A Journey amongst extraordinary mountains, vibrant with color, while they grant the greatest gift Relief Riders International is [...]

NGO ‘PRIA’ is also actively involved in Himachal. PRIA PRIA is a civil society organisation, that undertakes development initiatives to positively impact the lives of the poor, marginalised and excluded sections of society, by encouraging and enabling their participation in the processes of their governance. It strives for achievement of equity and justice, through a [...]

Himachal tourism is available on http://himachaltourism.nic.in/ and HP toursim development corporation website is on: http://hptdc.nic.in/

A 1905 steam engine runs on the Kalka-Shimla track on Sunday. The engine was regularly run on the track till 1975. Photo by Anil Dayal The Indian Railways and Himachal Pradesh Government gave the Kalka-Shimla toy train a befitting 100th Birthday Celebration. Covering 96.54 kms / 60 miles and traversing a gradient from 640 metres [...]

This is the source of the river Chandra. According to some believers, this is the spot from where the god Indra’s chariot took the eldest Pandava brother, Yudhishtra to ‘swarga’ (heaven) in his mortal form. Colourful tents under the blue sky,around the crystal clear waters of the Chandratal lake is a sight. Reflections of snowtopped [...]

A view of the snow-covered Bharmani Temple and deodar trees after a heavy snowfall in the Bharmour area of Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh on Monday. — PTI BHARMOUR is a place which not many people are familiar with. In the olden times, it was called Brahmpura and was the capital of Chamba. A small, [...]