2008-11-16T13:26:00.000-08:00

Entry to kinnaur, HP India (The road on the knife's edge)

Start of the adventure, National Highway No. 22, which is also called the Hindustan-Tibet Road. The road was built in 1962 at the time of Indo-China war. And the road was built without the help of big machines, it was built by labor by normal digging tools.

The view on the way just hypnotizes. The Satluj river flows by the road side between hight rocky mountains making view more attractive, beautiful and adventures. There is a saying written on the entry- "Always remember God and Death" :-) . You can find the warnings after every few turns that "This is the danger zone, Landslides keep on happening here" in kinnaur. Me and my friend were discussing that the administration should put only one board on the entry that the landslides keep on happening in Kinnaur every where :-). A few military bridges are on the way. There is a Temple of "Taranda Goddess" after some distance from the Kinnaur entry where accidents were a common havoc in these terrains just a few years back. This was built to stop these misshappenings. Every driver stops his vehicle at this temple. Driver and passengers pray for the token of blessings from the Goddess deity then carry on to their journey. After the temple was built the road accidents reduced dramatically.

I took some pics from inside the bus during my journey from Rampur(Shimla) to Sangla(Kinnaur).

Entry to kinnaur

Satluj River

Taranda Goddess Temple

Military Bridge on the way

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