On a clear March morning, a retired schoolteacher from Dehradun laces up his boots at the Lal Tibba parking area, nods to the chai vendor who has known him for fifteen years, and disappears into the deodar forest above Mussoorie’s western ridge. Two hours later, he is sitting on a flat boulder with a direct … Read more
On a clear March morning, a retired schoolteacher from Dehradun laces up his boots at the Lal Tibba parking area, nods to the chai vendor who has known him for fifteen years, and disappears into the deodar forest above Mussoorie’s western ridge. Two hours later, he is sitting on a flat boulder with a direct … Read more
On a clear March morning, a retired schoolteacher from Dehradun laces up his boots at the Lal Tibba parking area, nods to the chai vendor who has known him for fifteen years, and disappears into the deodar forest above Mussoorie’s western ridge. Two hours later, he is sitting on a flat boulder with a direct … Read more
The summer weekend traffic jam on NH-707A, stretching nearly 14 kilometres from Dehradun’s outskirts to Mussoorie’s Library Chowk, is one of India’s most photographed frustrations. Thousands of cars inch upward every Saturday morning between April and June, carrying families and couples who have booked the same three hotels on Mall Road, planned visits to the … Read more
Conventional wisdom holds that Kempty Falls is the must-see attraction of any Mussoorie itinerary. Conventional wisdom is wrong. According to local trekking guides and tourism researchers familiar with the Garhwal foothills, the George Everest Estate — a 19th-century colonial complex perched at approximately 2,000 metres above sea level, roughly 6 km west of Mall Road … Read more