Pramodara Diary: A TRIP TO LANDSDOWNE

A sudden plan of ours always works and so was the plan to visit Lansdowne; a Hill station in Northern part of India which is 270 Km from Delhi.

This will take nearly 6.5 to 8hrs to drive to the place based upon the reservation sites during your vacation.

KOTDWAR,a small town in plane under PAURI GADHWAL DISTT is a town at the foot hill from where the drive to Lansdowne will begin that is situated at a height of 1850 meters from sealevel.

City is a cantonment area of our Indian Army which was an cantonment too during British rule.Many of our soldiers then in 1936 participated in Worldwar on European land then during Germany,France etc.Here,one can not find any good hotel in the centere of Lansdowne.
Mall road of Lansdowne is unlike Mussori and is a small market catering for only local needs.

We drove down to Lansedown Vacation Hotel

which is 6.4 km right of Lansedowne city center that is War memorial.

These are the places to visit in Lansedowne:-
St John Church,
St Marry church,
Bhulle Taal,
War Memorial,
Tip N Top and
Tarkeshawar Temple

Driving to Hotel from Kotdwar was an adventurous for me and we reached there by 9pm as we started late from Delhi.

War memorial was a must visit once you are in Lansedowne and next is Tarkeshwar Temple which is approximately 35km from Lansedowne chowk.It is better to visit early by 7am as there is an Aarti and you finish it up before the large number of devotees flocked in.

Food:-Once you are on a vaccation,you also need a fresh,healthy and a tasty food.This is the best place,we recommend to visit once if you are in Lansedowne.We got a fresh and tasty food at its restaurant.

One can see the scenic view from the window of Hotel and a picture depicting the rising moon behind the apex of Hill top is here under.