Dalhousie – Khajjihar - Dharamshala

Dalhousie: Located in the outer slopes of hill Dhauladhar range is another important hill resort in the district Chamba. A number of picturesque walks run through the oak, pine and deodar forests around the town and offer excellent views of the Chenab, the Ravi and the Beas valleys. It is thickly wooded with stately pines and oaks and has lovely picnic spot all around. Dalhousie is the gateway to Chamba. . Originally conceived as a sanatorium by its founder Lord Dalhousie, it is today one of the most quiet hill stations.

St. Andrew's Church:   St. Andrew's Church commonly known as the Church of Scotland was built in the year 1903 at Baloon by Protestant Christians. The Church is approximately one and half kms. from Dalhousie's bus stand.

St. John's Church: This Church stands on the Gandhi Chowk approximately 2 kms. from the main bus stand of Dalhousie. This Church was the first to be built after the town of Dalhousie was founded

Bakrota Hills: The fascinating and bewitching Bakrota Hills offer to the tourists the brisk walk round the hills besides a grand view of snow-clad peaks.

Dainkund: This is a towering and beautiful peak which offers panoramic views, specially on a clear day, of the three main rivers - Beas, Ravi and Chenab.

Panchphulla: Sardar Ajit Singh, a great freedom fighter, breathed his last on the day India gained independence, 15th August, 1947. His 'Samadhi' is located at Dalhousie's Panjphulla, a picturesque spot with a natural tank and water flowing under small bridges from which the place takes its name. Sardar Ajit Singh was the uncle of martyr Bhagat Singh. At Panjphulla, there is a 'Samarak' in the memory of Sardar Ajit Singh.

Subhash Baoli: A lovely spot for picnic, commanding a good view of snow covered hills. This has been named after the indomitable man of Indian politics, before the independence days, Shri Subhash Chandra Bose. It is said that he used to drink water from this place during his stay in Dalhousie.

Khajjiar: A lovely spot for picnic, with a small lake commanding a good view of hills. Paragliding and Zorbing is 

also available here.

Dharamshala:  It came into being in 1849, when it was selected as a site to accommodate a native regiment that was being raised in the town. . The ideal location for the cantonment was found at the slopes of the Dhauladhar, upon which stood an old Hindu sanctuary or 'Dharamshala' the name adopted for the town. Dharamshala stands at the foot of Dhauladhar and has a magnificent view of snowy peaks, deodar and pine forests, tea gardens and beautiful hills. Dharamshala now really has become international, with a number of Tibetan settlements and the residence of Noble Laureate the 'Dalai Lama'.

 

McLeod Ganj: The arrival of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, along with thousands of refugees to Dharamshala in 1959 made the life here more active. A number of Tibetan settlements with religious education and other rehabilitation centers mushroomed all over the Mcleodganj. As Dharamshala became the headquarter of the Tibetan Government in exile, headed by Dalai Lama, it gained prominence all over the world and prominent personalities started arriving here.

Bhagsunag Fall: It is known for its old temple, a fresh water spring, waterfalls and slate quarries. Bhagsunag can be approached by road. The Bhagsu fall is one of the main attractions of Mcleodganj. You can take a dip in the chilly water of fall.

St. John's Church: The church lies in the forest between McLeod Ganj and Forsyth Ganj. It has a monument dedicated to Lord Elgin, one of the viceroys of India, who died at Chauntra (Mandi district) and was buried here in 1863 A.D.

Dharamkot: It is situated on the crest of a hill, this favorite picnic spot affords a panoramic view of the Kangra valley and the Dhauladhar ranges. One can reach Dharamkot by a simple trek from Bhagsu.

Triund: The snowline starts just 5 km. from Triund and affords a breathtaking view of the snows above and the valley below. It is a popular picnic and trekking spot.

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Winter schedule to see 30 per cent more flights

Domestic airlines will operate almost 30 per cent more flights from October this year than they operated in October last year. The planned increase in flights by the industry is the highest in the history of aviation, according to a report by Shishir Sinha in The Hindu Business Line. Besides, Puducherry will become the 83rd airport to get air connectivity with SpiceJet planning a daily flight from Chennai, during winter. Domestic airlines plan to operate 14,750 flights a week during the winter schedule. Globally, the winter schedule extends from the last Sunday of October every year till the last Saturday of March the following year. 

SpiceJet plans to use a 40 - 75 seater Canadian Regional Jet Q 400 aircraft to operate between Chennai and Puducherry. The launch of the flight may also be the beginning of regional service for the airline. According to Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) sources, there will be an almost 75 per cent increase in connectivity to Port Blair from various parts of the country. Domestic airlines plan to operate 75 weekly flights from the current 42 weekly flights to Port Blair. National Carrier, Air India plans to start direct flights to Port Blair from New Delhi, while low-cost carrier, GoAir plans provide connections to Port Blair from Chennai and Kolkata. Kingfisher has plans to fly from Bangalore and Kolkata to Port Blair. Agatti in Lakshwadeep, and Pantnagar are the cities scheduled to get more flights this winter schedule. Jet Airways is going to provide direct connectivity to Agartala from New Delhi. Currently Agartala can be reached via Kolkata or Guwahati only. “Airlines are very bullish. Bulk bookings by corporates are on the rise. Occasional travel by air is also increasing, and that is why airlines are planning to operate more flights during the winter schedule,” said a senior DGCA official. 

Tourists continue to throng Shimla, Manali in spite of rains

The tourist rush continues this year in the popular Himachal Pradesh resorts of Shimla and Manali some twenty days after the onset of the monsoon. Both places saw a huge rush of tourists over the weekend despite heavy rains all over northern India. This time the rains set in a week early in Himachal on June 23, according to a report by Baldev S Chauhan in My Himachal.

Observers said these trends are indicators that Shimla and Manali have now become all season destinations. Travel agents say that in the past, after the onset of the monsoon, tourist destinations in the state would witness a sudden drop in arrivals, but this year is unusual as the rush has continued, particularly on weekends. In the past, hotels would offer off season packages but due to the rush continuing, members of the hotel and travel industry are reluctant to offer discounts this rainy season. It also indicates that the growing Indian middle class is travelling more as it gets richer with the booming Indian economy.

Holidays Destinations in INDIA

Some famous destinations for Holidays in India

Goa                        Mumbai                        Kerala
Jaipur                      Agra                             Amritsar
Manali                     Shimla

Himachal Tour Packages

Kullu Manali Delight                     Duration: 03 Nights / 04 Days
Silent Dalhousie                          Duration: 03 Nights / 04 Days
Shining Shimla                            Duration: 03 Nights / 04 Days
Dalhousie with Dharamshala       lDuration: 04 Nights / 05 Days
Manali Shimla Package                Duration: 05 Nights / 7 Days
Manali with Dharamsala             l Duration: 05 Nights / 06 Days

And many more…

Honeymoon Tour Packages

We offers Honeymoon Packages from Budget to Luxury. No matter which part of India you wish to go for your romatic Honeymoon. We have a no. of Honeymoon Tour Packages for you to choose from. Few of the most famous destinations in India are:-
Manali                        Dalhousie                        Goa
Darjeeling                   Shimla                            Nainital

Leh Ladakh Tour Packages

We offers tour packages to Ladakh. No matter which part of Leh Ladakh India you wish to tour, we offer complete information on Leh and Ladakh. We have a number of tour packages on offer for tourists who want to enjoy their holidays in Leh and Ladakh. There are basically 2 routes for reaching Leh. Most people prefer going via Manali
Leh Via Manali                                          Leh Via Srinagar

Pilgrimage Tour Packages

Chardham Yatra - We are making a concentrated effort in promoting "Chardham Yatra" and are determined to serve you with a most comfortable means of communication to the blessed pilgrimage and a chance to experience nature's intricate and magnificent beauty.
Destinations Covered: Delhi - Dehradun - Yamunotri - Gangotri - Kedarnath - Badrinath - Ananda - Dehradun - Delhi ect.
* Charter Helicopter service also available.
Dodham Yatra - You can opt for any two destinations whether Yamunotri - Gangotri or Kedarnath - BadrinathOther pilgrimage toursShirdi                        Vaishno Devi               Amritsar
Amarnath                Dwarka                        Kailash Mansarovar

Uttranchal Tour Packages

Nainital                                         Duration: 03 Nights / 04 Days
Mussoorie Magical                        lDuration: 03 Nights / 04 Days
Auli Delight                                   lDuration: 03 Nights / 04 Days
Haridwar & Rishikesh                    lDuration: 03 Nights / 04 Days
Jim Corbett National Park             lDuration: 03 Nights / 04 Days

And many more…

Royal Rajasthan Packages

Jaipur                                           Duration: 03 Nights / 04 Days
Mt. Abu                                        Duration: 03 Nights / 04 Days
Bikaner & Jaisalmer                      lDuration: 04 Nights / 05 DaysThere are many more packages out there for your holidays....
Just ask us for any destination

Camping @ its Best

Camping is an outdoor recreational activity. The participants (known as campers) leave urban areas, their home region, or civilization and enjoy nature while spending one or several nights outdoors, usually at a campsite. Camping may involve the use of a tent, caravan, motorhome, cabin, a primitive structure, or no shelter at all. In many parts of the world, 'camping' refers exclusively to the use of tents or similar portable structures.

There are some of the very good Campsites available in North India like:


     In Uttranchal                                                                            In Himachal Pradesh
Jim Corbett National Park                                                               Manali
Rishikesh (White River Rafting)                                                       Chail
Auli                                                                                              Bir Billing
Binsar (near Almora)                                                                      Triud (near Dharamshala)
Saat Taal (near Nainital)                                                                 Pulga - Kheerganga (near Manikaran)
Chopta                                                                                         Kasauli
Kanatal (near Mussoorie)                                                               Brog (near Shimla)

Goa should develop heritage tourism

Goa should develop heritage tourism: Narendra Jadhav  

In order to battle threats from Maharashtra and Kerala in the tourism sector, Goa needs to move towards developing Heritage Tourism in the region, said Narendra Jadhav, Member, Planning Commission of India in charge of Goa, at the Goa Small Industries Association (GSIA) Annual General Meeting recently, according to a report in The Times of India. 

Gujarat to hold month-long festival to promote Saputara as monsoon destination

Realising the monsoon potential of Gujarat's little known destinations, the Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Limited (TCGL) announced a month-long monsoon festival in the state to promote Saputara as a monsoon destination. According to the announcement, which came at a road show held in Mumbai recently, the Saputara Monsoon Festival will be held from July 30 to August 30, 2011. TCGL, which recently completed road shows in Nagpur, Nashik and Mumbai, will organise similar road shows in Pune, Vapi, Surat and Vadodara in the next two weeks to promote the destinations, packages and services. The road shows will be organised in association with nine hoteliers. Organised under the aegis of Department of Tourism, Government of Gujarat, the Saputara Monsoon Festival road show was supported by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)

Air India plans to revamp fleet

Air India plans to revamp fleet, change hiring patterns       

In a bid to cut its expenses, Air India plans to re-organise its fleet and shift some of its aircraft to its subsidiary, Alliance Air. The airline is also hiring cabin crew on a contractual basis through its subsidiary Air India Charters Ltd. This is likely to help trim the airlines wage bill which is about 35 per cent of its total costs. “Air India has some Airbus A320s and Airbus A330s which are more than 15 years old. There is a proposal in place to shift these aircraft to Alliance Air. But this might take some more time,” an Air India said, according to a report by Debabrata Das and Ashwini Phadnis in The Hindu Business Line.

Indian Railways to launch new e-ticketing service

Indian Railways is all set to roll out its own e-ticketing service, which will have no room for travel agents and will be reserved for individual users. "Unlike the e-ticketing service of IRCTC, the new service by Indian Railway will have no role for travel agents and commercial organisations. Only individual users will be allowed to book on the portal," said a Railway official. According to a PTI report, travel agents in the IRCTC service have been accused of blocking tickets to sell them at a premium. Public resentment has also led the railways to bar travel agents from booking tatkal tickets during peak hours on the IRCTC portal.

ADVENTURE ACTIVITIES

Inflatable Rock Climbing

Rock Climbing is a popular recreational activity enjoyed by millions around the world.  Inflatable rock climbing has also become a big attraction for carnivals and festivals to use each year.  It is almost required for large events to search for a local inflatable rental vendor that uses an inflatable rock climbing wall.

Inflatable Rock Climbing is very safe for all to enjoy.  The goal is to grab and reach each 'rock' on the inflatable and climb your way to the summit.  Most inflatable rock walls will be 24' high (7m) and will have a large inflatable base at the bottom.

Abseiling/ Rapelling

Abseiling (from German: abseilen meaning "to rope down"), rappelling in American English,^[1] is the controlled descent down a rock face using a rope; climbers use this technique when a cliff or slope is too steep and/or dangerous to descend without protection.

Trampoline

A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs. People bounce on trampolines for recreational and competitive purposes.

The fabric on which users bounce (commonly known as the 'bounce mat' or 'trampoline bed') is not elastic in itself; the elasticity is provided by the springs that connect it to the frame.

Trampolining is a competitive Olympic sport in which gymnasts perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline. These can include simple jumps in the pike, tuck or straddle position to more complex combinations of forward or backward somersaults and twists.

There are two related competitive rebound sports, synchronized trampoline and double mini-trampoline.

ADVENTURE ACTIVITIES

Scuba diving

Scuba diving ("SCUBA" originally being an acronym for self contained underwater breathing apparatus, now widely considered a word in its own right)^[1] is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater.^[2]

Unlike early diving, which relied exclusively on air pumped from the surface, scuba divers carry their own source of breathing gas(usually compressed air),^[3] allowing them greater freedom than with an air line. Both surface supplied and scuba diving allow divers to stay underwater significantly longer than with breath-holding techniques as used in snorkelling and free-diving. Depending on the purpose of the dive, a diver usually moves underwater by swimfins attached to the feet, but external propulsion can come from an underwater vehicle, or a sled pulled from the surface.

Rafting

Rafting or white water rafting is a challenging recreational outdoor activity using an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other bodies of water. This is usually done on white water or different degrees of rough water, in order to thrill and excite the raft passengers. The development of this activity as a leisure sport has become popular since the mid-1970s. It is considered an extreme sport, as it can be dangerous.

The modern raft is an inflatable boat, consisting of very durable, multi-layered rubberized or vinyl fabrics with several independent air chambers. The length varies between 3.5 m (11 ft) and 6 m (20 ft), the width between 1.8 m (6 ft) and 2.5 m (8 ft). The exception to this size rule is usually the packraft, which is designed as a portable single-person raft and may be as small as 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) long and weigh as little as 4 pounds (1.8 kg).

ADVENTURE ACTIVITIES

Hot air ballooning

The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. It is in a class of aircraft known as balloon aircraft. On Nov 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first untethered manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air balloon created on Dec 14, 1782 by the Montgolfier brothers. Hot air balloons that can be propelled through the air rather than just being pushed along by the wind are known as airships or, more specifically, thermal airships.

A hot air balloon consists of a bag called the envelope that is capable of containing heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or wicker basket (in some long-distance or high-altitude balloons, a capsule), which carries passengers and (usually) a source of heat, in most cases an open flame. The heated air inside the envelope makes it buoyant since it has a lower density than the relatively cold air outside the envelope. As with all aircraft, hot air balloons cannot fly beyond the atmosphere. Unlike gas balloons, the envelope does not have to be sealed at the bottom since the air near the bottom of the envelope is at the same pressure as the surrounding air. In today's sport balloons the envelope is generally made from nylon fabric and the mouth of the balloon (closest to the burner flame) is made from fire resistant material such as Nomex. Beginning in the mid-1970s, balloon envelopes have been made in all kinds of shapes, such as hot dogs, rocket ships, and the shapes of commercial products, though the traditional shape remains popular for most non-commercial, and many commercial, applications.

The term hot air balloon is occasionally used inaccurately to denote any balloon large enough to carry people, including gas balloons.

Paragliding

Paragliding is a recreational and competitive flying sport. A paraglider is a free-flying, foot-launched aircraft. The pilot sits in a harness suspended below a fabric wing, whose shape is formed by its suspension lines and the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing.

Parasailing

Parasailing, also known as parascending, is a recreational activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat or a jeep) while attached to a specially designed parachute, known as a parasail. The vehicle then drives off, carrying the parascender into the air. If the vehicle is powerful enough, 2 or 3 people can parasail behind it at the same time. The parascender has little or no control over the parachute. The harness attaches the pilot to the parasail, which is connected to the boat, or land vehicle, by the tow rope. The activity is primarily a fun ride, not to be confused with the sport of paragliding. There are commercial parasail operations all over the world.

Parachuting / Sky Diving

Parachuting, also known as skydiving, is the action of exiting an aircraft and returning to earth with the aid of a parachute. It may or may not involve a certain amount of free-fall, a time during which the parachute has not been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal velocity.

The history of skydiving starts with Andre-Jacques Garnerin who made successful parachute jumps from a hot-air balloon in 1797. The military developed parachuting technology as a way to save aircrews from emergencies aboard balloons and aircraft in flight, later as a way of delivering soldiers to the battlefield. Early competitions date back to the 1930s, and it became an international sport in 1952.

A drop zone operator at a sky diving airport operates one or more aircraft that takes groups of skydivers up for a fee. An individual jumper can go up in a light aircraft such as a Cessna C-172 or C-182. In busier drop zones (DZ) larger aircraft may be used such as the Cessna Caravan C208, De Havilland Twin Otter DHC6 or Short Skyvan.

A typical jump involves individuals exiting an aircraft (usually an airplane, but sometimes a helicopter or even the gondola of a balloon), at anywhere from 1,000 to 4,000 meters (3,000 to 13,000 feet) altitude. If jumping from a low altitude, the parachute is deployed immediately, however, at higher altitudes, the skydiver may free-fall for a short period of time (about a minute)^[1] before activating a parachute to slow the landing down to safe speeds (about 5 to 7 minutes).

When the parachute opens (usually the parachute will be fully inflated by 800 meters or 2,600 feet) the jumper can control the direction and speed with toggles on the end of steering lines attached to the trailing edge of the parachute, and can aim for the landing site and come to a relatively gentle stop. All modern sport parachutes are self-inflating "ram-air" wings that provide control of speed and direction similar to the related paragliders. Purists in either sport would note that paragliders have much greater lift and range, but that parachutes are designed to absorb the stresses of deployment at terminal velocity.