Shimla (Queen of Hills) its name of goddess 'Shayamla Devi', which is one more appearance of Goddess Kali. Shimla has been blessed with all the natural beauty, any one can think of. residence on a panoramic spot, the hilly town is bounded by green pastures and snow- peaks. Shimla is very different from other hill stations. Shimla is capital of Himachal Prades it is located in the north west Himalayas
On 26 Jan it was sudden plan to Shimla. It was usual day when I woke-up. and no doubt it was holiday too. But after couple of hours I had pull up my shocks to Shimla. Till 2 o’clock I have not made any reservation, within in half an hour I had done the reservation Delhi to Kalka and Kalka to Shimla via Shivalik Dlx Exp (a toy train). At night we started our journey, it was not very comfortable night, because of the hectic day schedule. But when we reached at Kalka and we started our journey Kalka to Shimla the all tiredness was gone.
But I did a mistake, I forgot to bring my Camera, therefore all the picture was taken by my mobile.A toy train was different train compare to other train. It was wonderful experience. Out side view from our toy train is also very beautiful. Train was passing through mountains and offers beautiful views on the way. Inside the train pantry service is good not very good. In this train almost people seems that they are going for holiday young couple, old couple, families and children. They all were looking so excited, I was too, This was first time for me to visit Shimla. Before this whenever i planed for any hill station, first name come to my mind is Shimla, and this was the time when i was about to see that place.
I had not booked any hotel before departure to Shimla, because I know in Shimla we will find lots of good hotel, it up to you to decide what type of hotel you looking for. I saw many hotels than I have chosen hotel Clarks, it is very near to the mall street. The Mall of Shimla is the key attraction for the tourist as it is the core to a large number of shops. The mall is the most happening place of Shimla, as several of its restaurants and bars act favourite meeting point of the town. Next to the Mall of Shimla are the Tibetian and the Lakkad bazaar. Besides it is also the biggest shopping centre of Shimla. There is many interested place to see around the Mall like Scandal Point, General Post Office, Kali Bari Temple , Christ Church ( The famous Christ church & St. Michael's Cathedral of Shimla is a beautiful architectural masterpiece) , Jakhu Hill. and many more. Well no doubt in Shimla there you will find many religious places like few i have already mentioned and few are Bhimakali Temple, Sankat mochan Temple , Tara Devi Temple.
I really forgot to mention that on this trip I was with my wife along with my loving in-laws (Ma-Baba). So of course i had to take them all religious place...at least few of them. First day we just visited few temples and church. And just liked to walk only in mall street. One place that you cannot ignore is definitely the Mall Road in Shimla. The mall road of Shimla is very beautiful and different then other hill station's mall road. Thank god my wife at least likes something in Shimla, otherwise her views about this place is not very good. She says other hill stations are much much better than this Shimla... here nothing to see except the big crowd. Let's again come to the mall road,
I had not booked any hotel before departure to Shimla, because I know in Shimla we will find lots of good hotel, it up to you to decide what type of hotel you looking for. I saw many hotels than I have chosen hotel Clarks, it is very near to the mall street. The Mall of Shimla is the key attraction for the tourist as it is the core to a large number of shops. The mall is the most happening place of Shimla, as several of its restaurants and bars act favourite meeting point of the town. Next to the Mall of Shimla are the Tibetian and the Lakkad bazaar. Besides it is also the biggest shopping centre of Shimla. There is many interested place to see around the Mall like Scandal Point, General Post Office, Kali Bari Temple , Christ Church ( The famous Christ church & St. Michael's Cathedral of Shimla is a beautiful architectural masterpiece) , Jakhu Hill. and many more. Well no doubt in Shimla there you will find many religious places like few i have already mentioned and few are Bhimakali Temple, Sankat mochan Temple , Tara Devi Temple.
I really forgot to mention that on this trip I was with my wife along with my loving in-laws (Ma-Baba). So of course i had to take them all religious place...at least few of them. First day we just visited few temples and church. And just liked to walk only in mall street. One place that you cannot ignore is definitely the Mall Road in Shimla. The mall road of Shimla is very beautiful and different then other hill station's mall road. Thank god my wife at least likes something in Shimla, otherwise her views about this place is not very good. She says other hill stations are much much better than this Shimla... here nothing to see except the big crowd. Let's again come to the mall road,
The Mall road of Shimla is full of shops that sell woollen clothes, handicraft items, pottery items, stones jewellery, woollen caps etc. Yes you easily won't find any branded clothes, but who goes to mall road to buy branded clothes, in my opinion we all like to buy from any hill station only those things which relates to their culture. So am I, we buy some woollen caps, handicrafts etc. at late night what we found is every restaurant and Dhaba's in mall road were full of crowd.... and it took very difficult for us to find out any restaurant to eat. Please pay attention... here i am not talking about any good restaurant, i am just talking about any of there restaurant. Those all were packed and it took almost 3hrs for us to get the table to eat something. after having our dinner we marched to the hotel, it was about 11:30pm and there were no one on the street. It was end of the day one.
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