by Shimla Walks | Apr 15, 2020 | General News, Himalayan Trips, HIstory, The Life in the Hills, Uncategorized
I have been traveling regularly on this road from Shimla to Narkanda and then over Jalori Pass. It is good to have a window seat and enjoy the views of the Himalayan landscape. But you do not have that intensity of enjoyment in these closed vehicles that you can have...
by Shimla Walks | Apr 6, 2020 | General News, Himalayan Trips, HIstory, News and Deals, Stories, The Life in the Hills, Uncategorized
The British Government needed a transporter to move to the hills. The Gurkha British war had just come to an end in the Shimla hills and the Imperial Government had conceived an idea of setting up some army cantonments here. During that time a boy born in a village...
by Shimla Walks | Mar 17, 2020 | HIstory, Uncategorized
When you walk through the Heritage Zone of Shimla, you are bound to think of the creator of the beautiful edifices scattered here and there in the town. Every prominent building here has a different design and holds an attraction for the visitors. The presence of...
by Shimla Walks | May 18, 2019 | Himalayan Trips, HIstory, Uncategorized
‘Taking everything into consideration we may, therefore, decide that when the Blaini roup was being deposited, the spot now occupied by Simla was a sea on whose surface icebergs floated, melted and dropped the stone which they carried on their surface, or imbedded in...
by Shimla Walks | Jan 5, 2019 | Himalayan Trips, HIstory, Nature Walks, News and Deals, Shimla with Sumit, Stories, The Life in the Hills, The Life in the Hills, Uncategorized
That reminded me of the famous dialogue of a Bollywood movie, ‘Main Fenkey Huye Paise Nahi Uthata’ OR ‘If you want to make my payment place the money in my hand’. But here in this village, it does not work. They forbid touching me and the shopkeeper in the village...
by Shimla Walks | Jul 24, 2018 | General News, Himalayan Trips, HIstory, News and Deals, Uncategorized
In 1870 Mr. W. H. Carey mentioned in his Simla Guide that Simla drives its name from a house called ‘Shyamelay,’ built by a fakir – a sage, on the slopes of Jakhoo hill. The hills people also pronounced it probably as ‘Shimlah,’ or ‘Shumlah’ Originally, the village...
