Where Is The Himachal Pradesh?
India is such a immense country to visit. With its size, diversity, climate, cuisine, and terrain, it is almost impossible to experience everything in one trip. Perhaps, if you have a year to travel...but, even then, you'd have to be extremely selective.
"ex-Marine" (husband, Steve) and I have always said that India is one of the World's best kept secrets and Conde Nast 2006 Readers' Travel Awards seemed to agree. It was just ranked the "fourth top travel destination."
Himachal Pradesh is a mountainous State of India, located in the Northwest Himalayas. Flying from Leh, Ladakh to New Delhi last year, the plane flew over the Himachal and I looked down on steep, snow-capped mountains, glaciers, green valleys and thought, "I want to go there."
Most people visit India's "Golden Triangle" on their first trip to India: Agra, Delhi, and Jaipur - and that's a great place to start. But after that, which of India's 35 States and territories do you want to visit?
- Rajasthan?
- Kerala?
- Ladakh?
- Chattisgarh?
- Or one of the other diverse States and cultures.
So much to see and so little time...tigers...mountains...tribes...beaches...that is why we were returning to India for the 6th time.
Once I made up my mind to visit the Himachal, months of planning started, consulting my handy-dandy Lonely Planet (probably outdated and much used) India book, the great India Tourism Internet site, researched some group tours and spent many more hours on the Internet...
Spring is on the horizon and it's not too early for you to start thinking about a visit to India...
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