A very popular temple in Shimla, Sankat Mochan temple is situated in TaraDevi on Kalka-Shimla highway. The temple is dedicated to Lord Hanuman and was commissioned by Baba Neem Karoli. Initially the temple was a small shrine but today it is a three-storied building, which is used for many purposes like feeding the poor (Langar)…
Shri Dhyunsar Shiv Mandir Talmehra is also commonly known as Sada Shiva Temple/ Sada Shiv Mandir,Dhaumyeshwar Mahadev Temple and even Shiv Tilla by different people locally or other parts of India. Sada Shiv Mandir is located in Una Distt. Una is situated on the southwestern part of the state of Himachal Pradesh. Like most of…
Palampur is a green hill station and a municipal council in the Kangra Valley in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, surrounded on all sides by tea gardens and pine forests before they merge with the Dhauladhar ranges. Palampur is the tea capital of northwest India but tea is just one aspect that makes it…
McLeodganj (also spelt McLeod Ganj or Mcleodganj) is a suburb of Dharamshala in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It has an average elevation of 2,082 metres (6,831 feet). Situated on the Dhauladhar Range, whose highest peak, “Hanuman Ka Tibba”, at about 5,639 metres (18,500 feet), lies just behind it, it is known as “Little…
मणिमहेश-कैलाश: धौलाधार, पांगी व जांस्कर पर्वत श्रृंखलाओं से घिरा यह कैलाश पर्वत मणिमहेश-कैलाश के नाम से प्रसिद्ध है और हजारों वर्षो से श्रद्धालु इस मनोरम शैव तीर्थ की यात्रा करते आ रहे हैं। यहां मणिमहेश नाम से एक छोटा सा पवित्र सरोवर है जो समुद्र तल से लगभग 13,500 फुट की ऊंचाई पर स्थित है।…
Manimahesh Lake (also known as Dal Lake, Manimahesh) is a high altitude lake (elevation 4,080 metres (13,390 ft)) situated close to the Manimahesh Kailash Peak in the Pir Panjal Range of the Himalyas, in the Bharmour subdivision of Chamba District of the Indian State of Himachal Pradesh. The religious significance of this lake is next…
