Hills
Snow on the ground and snow on the road are two different holidays
Winter hill travel in India divides between places where the snow is the attraction and places where it is…
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Hills
Mountain roads, altitude, weather windows and the towns between them.
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Hills
Old Himalayan villages sit above the river and the new towns sit on it
The settlement pattern in a mountain valley used to keep houses well clear of the water, and understanding…
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Hills
Himalayan trekking has two seasons and they show you different mountains
The window before the monsoon and the window after it differ in snow, colour, visibility and cold, and…
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A hill fort is best read from its gateways upwards
The defensive thinking in an Indian hill fort is concentrated in the few metres where a road has to pass…
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A hill terrace tells you where the water is and what month it is
Flat ground on a mountain is manufactured, and the way a terrace is cut, watered and planted says more…
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The southern hills are bald on the ridges and forested in the folds
The high Western Ghats carry a mosaic of grassland on the open slopes and dense stunted forest in the…
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The forest changes about every thousand metres you climb in the Himalaya
Vegetation zones stack up a mountainside in a predictable order, which means the trees outside the window…
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The people you meet on a high meadow live there for three months a year
Himalayan pastoralism moves flocks up and down the range on a fixed annual cycle, and most encounters…
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