Jammu Tucked
away in the foothills of the Himalayas, with the picturesque river Tawi
flowing alongside stands the land that Raja Jambu Lochan discovered one day
while he was hunting. Legend has it that he suddenly came upon a clearing
where he saw a sight that left him speechless. A tiger and a goat stood side
by side drinking water from the same place in the Tawi River. He was so
struck by this unusual sight that he decided to build a city on this soil
where no-living creature seemed to bear enmity towards each other. Today, as
if in testimony, the city of Jammu is popularly known as the "City of
Temples". Innumerable temples and shrines with glittering "Shikaras"
soar into the sky, like caretakers of the city, creating the ambience of a
truly holy city.
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Set like a jewelled crown on the map of India, Kashmir is a many
faceteddiamond, changing character with the seasons - always extravagantly
beautiful.Three Himalayan ranges, Karakoram, Zanaskar and Pir Panjal - snow
capped,majestic, frame the landscape from northwest to northeast. They are
the birthplace of great rivers which flow through the kashmir
valley.RajTaringini the chronology of the Kashmir Kings written by Kalhana
eulogises the beauty of Kashmir as follows:"Kasmira Parvati Paroksh;
Tat Swami ch Maheswara". Meaning Kashmir is as beautiful as Goddess
Parvati manifest; and its owner is Lord Shiva Himself" And the Mughal
Emperor exclaimed "Gar Bar-ru-e-Zamin Ast ; Hamin Ast ,Hamin Ast Hamin
Asto. Meaning if there is paradise on this earth : This is it, this is it,
this is it.
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Kashmir Tourism Guide Ladakh is a land like no other.
Bounded by two of the world's mightiest mountain ranges, the Great Himalaya
and the Korakaram, it lies athwart two other, the Ladakh range and the
Zanskar range. In geological terms, this is a young land, formed only a few
million years ago by the buckling and folding of the earth's crust as the
Indian sub-continent pushed with irresistible force against the immovable
mass of Asia. Its basic contours, uplifted by these unimaginable tectonic
movements, have been modified over the millennia by the opposite process of
erosion, sculpted into the form we see today by wind and water.
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