Part II: Nainital

Here with the Nainital post! This is one of those places that I want to come back to. Jim Corbett Park is also one of them. My tiger-sighting is still left. How long will that tiger evade my eyes?
;-)

Balrampur House

Balrampur House: The palace of some Raja/Maharaja called Balram. This pic would have looked much more beautiful sans our wet towels hanging from the railing, which did not dry properly even after a whole day of letting it out in the sun. Such was the cold of Nainital! But this was one hotel that wasnt anything less than grand! Huge rooms and the size of the washrooms was as big as a room fit for 10 people to sleep in, excluding the bathtub that could fit another person! ;-)

Lake near the Nainital Market

Huge lake that this is, it also enhanced the scenic beauty of this place. Maybe it was almost in the heart of Nainital but I cant be sure because I did not have a directly overheard aerial view of this place, in spite of being on the ropeway! Beautiful maple trees and it was a nice, light, jovial atmosphere seeing the locals gather for discussion on news, locals matters, chit-chatting. This place even had a movie-house called Capitol Cinema, which showed old films like one of those when Salman Khan was young. Nainital Market was close by and it was a lovely place to be at, with comfortable buzz. This place didnt have the arrogant buzz in the air like Mussoorie has. Mussoorie, as and when I saw it, was crammed with students of boarding school, which made me deduct that they were rich kids! Nice place to people-watch, seated on the cold benches while having a steaming cup of Nescafe (which everywhere was sold for 10 bucks!).

On the Ropeway

Un-chill your bones!

Nainital Market

Tasting 1-2-3

Just a local kid, his tongue rolled out alongwith his mother. I found the lil boy (or is it a girl? You never know what with all those sweaters and hoods and monkey caps..?!?!) very cute and amusing amd so got his/her pic covertly! In the background is a tradesman with his wares as well as the Nainital lake. This area is one of the most beautiful with the lake, market, cinema house, one or two churches, a mosque a little farther away, and narrow winding roads, all placed together.

Nainital @ Nite

Dusk starts falling at around 5 pm at this hill station, quite like any other place atop a hill. The tradesmen with the roadside stalls as well as some shops have to take the help of lamps. I do not know if it's an issue regarding scarcity of electricity here, as I saw many shops with a tubelight or fan, but going by the hotel's grand use of it, there seemed no special dearth of the energy source. But water can be quite a problem here. Especially when you suddenly stop getting hot water in your bath or have to wash your bum with chilling, ice-cold water!

Nainital @ Dawn

This was chandamama at 7 am in the morning! The moon was just a tiny pebble in the morning sky and the temple in red and white that you see were extremely far off on a hill. Zooming in gave me this big pic of the moon! The fog is great in the mornings and when one reaches atop this hill on horseback or waslking, the fog is so thick that is barely not possible to see your own hand if you held it in front of you!

Just some timepass...

This place has amazing flowers!!!
Even the trees look so graceful in spite of scarce leaves on them!

Bhimtal Lake

Bhimtal Lake: Enroute to Jim Corbett from Nainital. there was some legend or story behing this lake, which i could not catch properly, while the tour guide was blabbering away. apparently Bhim had a fight with someone and flung the enemy so hard that a crater developed and water filled in. and hence the name Bhimtal! (Sorry, I felt too lazy to Google it)


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PS 2: All said and done, I'm sure the small note above is not going to help!