WHY UTTARAKHAND

The number of travellers who are never tired of visiting
known places and peaks and meeting familiar faces of people
.and yet seek the unclimbable, is increasing year after year.
People who want to know places and learn unknown things
about the known places is true about the Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand has unique things to offer to the visitor in
terms of its excellent scenic beauty, marvellous sceneries of
ancient arts and architecture, flower laden valleys, luxuriant
meadows^ emerald green lakes, simple people, folk tales and
folk songs of highland people, glaciers and source of life giving
Ganga and Yamuna, the celebrated saints of Satyuga and the
hippies of Kaliyuga. There is so much of everything that you
only need to come once.

The journey to
The traveller whose destination is the mountain province of
Uttarakhand must first of all make his way up to the railway
terminals of Kathgodam if proceeding towards Kumaon hills
and Rishikesh if his destination is Garhwal. The other im-
portant railway stations are Tanakpur, Haldwani, Ramnagar,
Haridwar, and Dehradun. The railway line passes through a