Monthly: February 2005

Ki Monastery-Spiti

Posted on February 25, 2005 by Avnish Katoch

Ki Monastery is a thousand-year-old Buddhist gompa located in the remote region of Spiti in the Indian Himalayas. The passes into this area are blocked by [...]

Tabo

Posted on February 25, 2005 by Avnish Katoch

Tabo Monastery!

Teaching-fun-adventure-tourism and of course generosity

Posted on February 24, 2005 by Avnish Katoch

Teaching One more great example of generosity comes from Tikarani Shailja Kumari, born the eldest daughter of the house of Sailana. She is a Graduate in [...]

GONOMAD Destination-Spiti

Posted on February 23, 2005 by Avnish Katoch

Story and photos by David Rich The Spiti Valley and its neighboring valleys are among the most remote in the world, lying on the border with [...]

GONOMAD.com destination-Dharamshala

Posted on February 23, 2005 by Avnish Katoch

Para Gonomad.com has discussed the travel to McLeod Ganj, DharamShala, HP in great detail. Mostly McLeodGanj is now taken as a Tibetean colony more rather than [...]

Few sweet songs

Posted on February 22, 2005 by Avnish Katoch

I found few sweet local songs on this website, you can also buy them. Himachal Pradesh is the land of mountains, rivers and beautiful landscape. Most [...]

Relief Riders International.

Posted on February 20, 2005 by Avnish Katoch

A Hero Journey. A unique and truly heroic, adventurous and appreciable concept! Alexandar Souri born to a French mother and Indian father is working towards this [...]

PRIA

Posted on February 19, 2005 by Avnish Katoch

NGO ‘PRIA’ is also actively involved in Himachal. PRIA PRIA is a civil society organisation, that undertakes development initiatives to positively impact the lives of the [...]

Himachal Tourism

Posted on February 16, 2005 by Avnish Katoch

Himachal tourism is available on http://himachaltourism.nic.in/ and HP toursim development corporation website is on: http://hptdc.nic.in/

Kalka Shimla Railways.

Posted on February 14, 2005 by Avnish Katoch

A 1905 steam engine runs on the Kalka-Shimla track on Sunday. The engine was regularly run on the track till 1975. Photo by Anil Dayal The [...]

Chandertaal Lake

Posted on February 7, 2005 by Avnish Katoch

This is the source of the river Chandra. According to some believers, this is the spot from where the god Indra’s chariot took the eldest Pandava [...]

BHARMOUR

Posted on February 7, 2005 by Avnish Katoch

A view of the snow-covered Bharmani Temple and deodar trees after a heavy snowfall in the Bharmour area of Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh on Monday. [...]