Little monasteries and chortens dot the landscape. A cluster of whitewashed buildings with a playing field has a board with primary school written boldly across it. It's devoid of all touristy claptrap, and somewhere on the road you abruptly pass from thickly forested hills to bare dust ridden snow capped mountains. It's as if the curtains have parted on a grand proscenium.
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“What’s the rush?” Really, what is the rush? After years of making zippy cross country drives from the maddening plains to the heavenly hills, with crack-of-dawn departures, whistle-stop loo-breaks, on-the-go meals and feet-swelling inertia in a moving vehicle, we arrived at the belated, yet timely (if that makes any sense) realization that “the journey is it!”
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Nestling among thick, dense pine forests and separated from the towering mountains of the Nanda Devi range by low, medium mountains; at Kausani the grandeur of the Himalayan scenery comes alive. The view of the snow-covered Trishul and Nanda Devi is so clear that one gets a feeling of the snow being within touching distance.
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