Chamba…Mirror Image of Dreamed Hill Beauty

At the doorstep of heaven, on the foothills of the Himalaya is Chamba-unexplored, untouched, overlooking the snow clad peaks on one side and offering an magnificent view of the valley on the other side. About 50 km from Mussoorie is the small hill town of Chamba, Uttaranchal (of course don't confuse it with Chamba in Himachal). Chamba is at an altitude of 1600m ASL. Again really unspoiilt and with lot of pines and deodar and good views. Unlike Mussoorie, the place is very quiet and picturesque and an excellent place to relax to wash your city blues. One can reach Chamba in about 02 hours from Rishikesh & after visiting Chamba one can come back to Rishikesh same day.

Chamba has often been referred to as the Florence of the Himalaya, for like that Italian city, it abounds in street and curbside art treasures as well as a host of magnificient temples and idols. The rulers of Chamba in the 10th and 11th century were great temple builders and patrons of the arts, which consequently flourished. A uniquely chambiad art form was the rumal, or handkerchief with fine embroidery. Examples of the Chamba rumal can be seen at the local Bhuri Singh Museum. During this golden age was built the famous Laxminarayan group of temples.

Chamba valley lies enclosed between two principal spur ranges of the Great Himalaya, the Dhauladhar and the Pangi-Pir Panjal. The sedimentary deposits of the Shivaliks give way to the first granite range in the system, the Dhauladhar. The Pir Panjal runs roughly parallel, to the north but on a converging line, and in between lies the drainage basin of the Ravi, one of the principal rivers of the Punjab. The Ravi arises in two streams, the Kalihain from the glaciers in the Bara-Banghal basin, and the Buddhal from the snowfields of Kugti and Manimahesh. Dividing the two is the outthrust spur of the small Manimahesh range, named after the mountain revered locally as an abode of Lord Shiva. The Buddhal , so named because it resembles an old man's flowing white beard, has after Brahmour, carved out one of the most stupendous gorges anywhere in the Himalaya, which, in it's last portion, degenerates to a fearsome overhang carved out of granite.

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