Place to see: Har Ki Dun, Mussoorie, India

Har Ki Dun

Har Ki Dun

On the way to Har Ki Dun. In the distance are the Kala Naag, Bunderpooch and Black Peak.

About this place:

Eleven years later, I was revisiting Har Ki Dun, which literally translates to Shiva’s valley, and which is tucked away about 12,000 feet above sea level near the border of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. I had changed, India had changed (and how!), and I wondered what had changed in Seema, the last village 7.5 miles before Har Ki Dun, where I had struggled to explain what a telephone is to Irbir Singh, a strapping young village lad we had befriended. I wondered whether there was a telephone in the village now; whether children still asked for medicines from hikers.

Mussoorie, State of Uttarakhand, IN

Discovered by Jit Ray
on 11 November 2007.
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