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Dalhousie




Dalhousie
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State Himachal Pradesh
Distance 570 km from Delhi
Tags Hill Stations, Falls, Wildlife
One among the demanding hill stations in the state of Himachal Pradesh, Dalhousie is very popular for its scenic beauty and pleasant climate. This fast emerging hilly resort offers a pleasant holidaying in a calm and lonely surroundings. A popular sanatorium during the time of British rule, this hilly resort owes much to its founder Lord Dalhousie for its fame and glory. Nestled in the lap of the Himalayan mountain range, this hill station is placed at an average height of 8000 feet.

An astounding hill station, Dalhousie is bursting with its old charm and embraces enduring ricochets of the 'British Raj'. One among the favourite places of the British, this hilly terrain houses a large number of Victorian style mansions, which proudly testifies its former grandeur.

Spread over an area of 14 sq km, Dalhousie is built on five hills, which offers a pleasant trekking experience to toddlers as well as serious trekkers. This picturesque spot is a tiny hospice, which lies at the base of the Dhauladhar mountain range. This scenic valley offers impressive scenery of hills concluding in the flurry of the mountains and the verdant valleys and luxuriant landscapes. With its majestic rivers that twirls and spins amidst the lush dense woods of the planes presents delightful scenery of nature.

Besides an alluring picnic spot, Dalhousie provides excellent shopping malls where in all the activities of the town is centered around. A shoppers delight these malls offer a great time for the shopping buffs. Apart from these, the interlacing lanes of this magnificient hill resort are a perfect location for promenades and sight seeing. A charming location at a height of 9000 feet, Dalhousie is blessed with outstanding attractions and its salubrious weather with moderate accommodation facilities make it a thieving tourist center of modern times.


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