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Timber Trail Heights is a resort/hotel on a hill where you can only reach through a cable car. How to reach Timber Trail, which is at Parwanoo (Himachal Pradesh) is covered in this post.

The official site of this place is here so if you are interested in getting some data, please visit. In this story I would share some pics and some text. I have been to this place on short few hour trips couple of times and last time I stayed their for a night.

You park your vehicle at their hotel on the Delhi-Shimla Road and then take the rail car. Video of Cable Car as its approaching the Timber Trail Heights.

Its quite a way up, so enjoy those deep views while you wait for the car to reach up. Also, dont get panicky if the car stops midway which happens :) when the Power goes off and someone switches on the diesel-generator. There is a Timber guy inside to ask any further stupid questions.

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Its stories, wafting aromas, heritage and architecture; just a few of the reasons for getting lost in the gallis of Shahjahanabad. Amid the worn-out heritage structures of Chandni Chowk, the glare of the yellow ‘M’ signalling a McDonald’s outlet looks out of place, and time. “My grandfather tells me this was a cinema hall before it was converted to a ‘McDee’ outlet,” the INTACH walk leader tells me as we set off to explore Shahjahanabad, the capital city built by Emperor Shah Jahan (1628-1658).

The walk, ‘Exploring Shahjahanabad: A walk in Old Delhi’, starts from the Sri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir, located opposite the Red Fort. Standing in front of the mandir, believed to be the oldest Jain temple in Shahjahanabad, we get a crash course on the old city.

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Last weekend, I drove to Kalka, rather Parwanoo, on my way to Timber Trail Heights, its one of those hotels perched on a hill top and the only good way to reach their is through a cable car, good nice clean place and more on that in a later post. This road further takes you to Simla and probably that would have made a better headline, thats why I named this as Delhi-Shimla review. I have been to Shimla once and few times to Chail, Kasauli, Subathu so would fill from past experience.

Delhi - Shimla drive can be divided into 4 sections.

1. NH1 (Delhi to Ambala) - 200 Odd KMs. 3.5 hours.

2. NH21 (Ambala to Zirakpur) - 30 odd Kms. 1 hour

3. Zirakpur to Kalka - 60 odd Kms. 1.5 hour

4. Kalka to Shimla - 80 odd Kms.3 hours

Get out of Delhi from Azadpur Bypass, more popularly known as just Bypass, this is on ring road which circles Delhi so hop on to Ring Road and go North from Bypass. Now you are on NH1, its one of those dead-long-monotonous stretch of tar on which you can drive on Auto-Pilot. There are towns and cities on the way but you can easily clock an avg of 60-70 Km an hour for this stretch. So depending upon time of day, it might take you anywhere from 3 to 4 hours. First stop is Murthal, the place which is more popular for its Paranthas then anything else. A motley of restaurants which are all named as something no 1 (Ahuja no 1 is one of the popular joints) where truckers enjoy their evening meal with that yellow-golden Mcdowell drink (well why only Mcdowell, because there is this McDowell No 1, have you ever heard of Black Label No 1 (more…)

Driving to the remote part of Arunachal Pradesh in the north east corner of India was an exhilarating experience . Colours change with every curve in the mountains and so does the scenery. bright yellow mustard fields merge ith some brilliant orchids that suddenly morph into dense forests with rivers gliding past them to snow clad mountains and conifers kissed by snow flakes to frozen lakes to a valley of clouds that wrapped mountains…

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