A Visit To Shimla During Festival – Carnival Of Festivals

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Shimla is the largest hill city of India and the most popular tourist town attracting visitors from all over the world throughout the year. As this charming beauty lies beholding the hills, it is also named as the Queen of hills. This capital city of Himachal Pradesh is located in the Himalayas above 2213m above sea level. It was also declared as the summer capital of British rule and since then Shimla is recognized as one of the best places for sightseeing and relaxing summer holidays. Nature unfolds itself at its best in Shimla. Surrounded by the forests of oak, pine and rhododendron, Shimla experiences pleasant summers on one hand and snowy winters on the other hand and thus drives a huge number of tourists throughout all four seasons of a year from all over the world. The hills in summer and the snowy misty winter morning welcome the tourists with irresistible charm.

Along with the spell bound beauty offered by the city, Shimla also offers the tourist the best handicrafts of Himachal Pradesh. Woolen and Pashmina Shawls are renown in the entire world market. There are many tourist spots in Shimla and the most frequented ...
... of these are: the Summer hill, Sankat Mochan, Junga, Anand Vilas, Kufri, Mall road, Tatapani, Sanjauli, the Christ Church, Jakhu temple, Shimla museum, Tara devi, The ridge, the scandal point and so on.

Shimla offers a delightful vision to tourists and huge number of tourists visits the land throughout the year. However a visit to Shimla during festival has its own glory and fascination. Shimla is also popular as the land of fairs and festivals as it hosts a number of colorful festivals. The most popular Shimla festivals are: Ice Skating Carnival festival that is hosted during the winters, Rhyali festival that is celebrated in the rainy season, summer festival enjoyed in the summers, Baisakhi in mid of April month, Bhoj fair in November, Diwali in November and Christmas in December. Thus, festivals in Shimla are celebrated in every season beholding merriment and festivity.

Huge numbers of tourists visit Shimla during these festivals to enjoy the merry making. There are few other traditional Shimla festivals that are very popular among tourists and these are namely Lavi fair, Lohri, Navratri, Sipi fair and so on. A visit to Shimla during festival thus offers the tourists an experience to enjoy the multi-colors of festivity along with the natural grandeur of Shimla.

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