Taj Mahal

My trip to delhi and himachal pradesh was real fun.... it was my first time to Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders.... its so enchanting to watch the Taj and i felt like never to come from there... its the most beautiful thing i'd ever seen.. It is really a wonder in marbles and you can feel the love of Shah Jahan spreading everywhere around it.. click here to see my delhi n agra pics.

Rohtang Pass

Rohtang Pass (el. 3978 m./13,051 ft.), 51 Kms from Manali, is a high mountain pass that connects the Kullu Valley with the Lahul and Spiti valleys of Himachal Pradesh, India.
The pass is only open from June to September, has a well-deserved reputation for being very dangerous because of unpredictable snowstorms.In fact in the local language ,rohtang literally means the "pile of corpses".
The pass provides a natural cultural divide between the foothills and wet lowlands of northern India and its primarily Hindu culture, with the dry desert uplands north of the first range of the Himalayas and its mainly Buddhist and heavily Tibetan-influenced culture.
There is a small temple at the top of the pass with a spring that is the source of the Beas River.
The road through the Kullu Valley, past Manali and over the Rohtang Pass to Keylong, and Lahul and on to Ladakh, has become very busy during the summer months as a military route, because of the troubles in Kashmir which have meant that the road from Srinagar to Leh is now less used. Traffic jams (as pictured) are common occurrences caused by the inability of military vehicles, trucks, and goods carriers to navigate the tight roads and rough terrain, not to mention, snow and ice.

It was my first experience to be in such a cold place. In manali temperature was around 5 degree celcius, i thought that was terrible.... but rohtang pass.... it was cold.