Trip to Shimla Manali

Tuesday

Market in Manali

Market is on Mall road in the heart of the town.

You will find lots of warm cloths at cheap price on Manali Street Market.

Manali circle on Mall road just ahead of Nehru Park

Monday

Sunrise in Manali

Manali Mornings are cool and chilling in winter due to high mountains surrounding. It take sometime for sun rays to reach down.

Morning walk in Manali

Manali Tour to snow Mountain

Solang Valley is 15 km northwest of Manali on the way to Rohtang Pass, famous for its summer and winter sport conditions. parachuting, paragliding, skating and zorbing. Solang Valley is a popular ski resort and is full of snow in winter.

Bridge connecting to solang

picture of Solang valley

View of Rohtang Pass from Solang Valley

Snow covered Solang valley in winter

Hotel Views in Solang Valley

Food in Manali

Food is good in Manali, mainly Veg Punjabi Food and the famous Trout Fish which is available in all Non-Veg Hotel. Mainly Indian cuisines is available in the Manali market. Mall Road is full of variety eating options from small local dhabas to fancy restaurants. The best to try in Manali is Tibetan food. There are lots of Vaishnavi Dhabas.

Sunday

Manali

Manali A Beautiful Hill Station in Himachal Pardesh. Just 260 KMs from Shimla and 325 Kms from Chandigarh.

A very popular hill resort, located at an height of 1,850m approx (6,000 ft). Travelers spend days, months or some even years, because of its beautiful environment. foreigners visit on their trip to India. One cen get the bus to Leh from here.

There are many interesting spiritual places in the Kullu and Manali. It is said when Pandavas were in exile they resided in the Manali for a year.

Best times to visit Manali is from May to June and September to October. September and April the nights are chilling cold, and one has to be with lots of warm clothing. May and June is tourists season or a peak season this is when the temperatures are between 10ºC and 25ºC. And from November to March it is cold with the temperatures between 1ºC and 12ºC.

Manali Street

There is a Mall Road in Manali

Mall Road Manali between Snow Mountains

A view of Manali Village.

Manali View from Hill

Hadimba Temple Manali

Hadimba Temple (Dhungri)

This Temple is 4-storey, Approx 25 meter high built in 1553 and is dedicated to Hadimba, wife of Bhima, one of the Pandava brothers from the epic of Mahabharata. Hadimba is said to be an incarnation of the goddess Kali.

The temple is pagoda style with intricate carvings on the temple. A big festival at the temple is celebrated every year in May. To walk to this temple about 2 km from Manali Mall Road, it is on the road to Old Manali. It is also called the dungri area of Manali.

Saturday

Shimla to Manali

Starting from Shimla to Manali by Road in the morning 7am

Travelling to Manali from Shimla by road.

Mandi Himachal way to manali

Vyas River coming from Manali to Mandi

Passing from Kullu Road toward Kullu city

Ice Mountain view from Kullu.

Entering in Kullu.

A view of Vyas River in Kullu known spot for Rafting.

View of Manali from Kullu.

City view of Kullu. Here you can Buy Cheap warm cloths from local street market.

Enjoy Aloo, Paneer Paratha and Hot tea in Kullu.

Moving to Manali from Kullu.

Temple view on Mountain in Kullu

View of Manali from Kullu.

Manali Snow Mountain View from Kullu.

Friday

Sunrise in Shimla

Shimla gets early sunrise in summer and late in winter. A winter sunrise is more golden and refreshing.

Shimla in Morning at 6.30am A bus Stop view.

Have a morning walk on shimla street. at 6.45 am is good for walk

Shimla in winter (January 2011)

Shimla snow

Thursday

Indian Institute of Advanced Study SHIMLA

Shimla was once the summer capital of India.
Indian Institute of Advanced Study is not only a tourist attraction center in Shimla but also a prestigious research institute. The building was originally built as home for Lord Dufferin, 1884 Viceroy of India. It was called the Lodge.