My image about Shimla was always snow covered peaks & streets and trees with apples hanging low. And the Tamil hero in a funny costume and heroine in Bharata Natyam attire! In reality, the place came croppers. It was a dud, this Shimla. I could have really constructed an attic at my place, climb that up laboriously and wear some stinky warm clothes ( just for the effect ) and stayed there for a couple of days. I could keep adding doses of reality by calling up and speaking with some people with just 5 senses, or eat puri & channa, pretend that one shelf is a bar and reduce my stock ( my hotel bar was smaller than mine ).
Is there something really more than what I saw of Shimla, that is a great secret like Netaji’s death? Fact is that, the place is too commercialized, stinks more of automobile fumes and teeming crowd. In a few years, we may have to find a replacement of a hill station.
PS: Want to check with some doctor, whether in hilly areas, people suffer from some form of osteoporosis in the skull !!!!
Is there something really more than what I saw of Shimla, that is a great secret like Netaji’s death? Fact is that, the place is too commercialized, stinks more of automobile fumes and teeming crowd. In a few years, we may have to find a replacement of a hill station.
PS: Want to check with some doctor, whether in hilly areas, people suffer from some form of osteoporosis in the skull !!!!
2 comments:
If u want to see real snow covered peaks, then gangtok is the place and that to u should go in the month of november,shimla in may june su@ks...
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Mr.X
saad but true for all famous tourist haunts in India, maximum damage done by proliferation of domestic tourism.
typical Indian tourist goes to a serene , scenic spot on a packaged bus trip , plays loud filmy songs at these locations , covers 300 locations in " 3nites and 4 days" and evenly distributes his abandoned water bottles , wafer packets , paper dishes , gutkha pouches and paan-spittle accross all these 300 sites. Kind of Armstrong leaving his footprint on the moon- indian way of saying "we were here"
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