Once you're slightly settled in you would want to explore around. Shopping for little artifacts and take home gifts can be done at the Mall Road which is in two levels. There's steep drive up toward it, but I decided to go the beaten path and take the ropelift. Now this was painstaking. For one, it was crammed with people and two, if the electricity had to go (which isn't uncommon for Simla), one would stuck till a generator kicked life back into it. I was on tenderhooks every time I stepped into the lift, but luckily, the ascent was smooth and uneventful.

The Ridge, atop the Mall Road, which is has the Lakkar Bazaar (selling little wood knock-knacks) and Scandal Point and also houses the lovely Neo-Gothic architectured Christ Church, that makes for a pretty backdrop against the mountains. A stroll down the shops had my pockets lighter after I bought some shawls and sweaters (I would hardly make use of, back in Mumbai)...but all the same, fun! The light lingers on in the bazaar till a little past ten, so its nicer to do the dinner scene early and then linger over some hot chai or brownies and ice-cream.

 

 

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