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Palmaidanپَلۂ مآٔدآن : Palmaidan (translation: Big stones ground) is named after the "Big Stones" because there are huge stones all around the ground. It situated at a distance of about 5 km (3.1 mi) from Doodhpathri and is the favourite spot of shepherds and cowboys where they gather in large numbers in summer and graze their cattle ...
Sonamarg had historical significance as a gateway on the ancient Silk Road, connecting Kashmir with Tibet. [5] [6] Today, the hill station is a popular tourist destination amongst fishers and hikers, and following the Kargil War with neighbouring Pakistan in 1999, serves as a strategically important point for the Indian Army.
This temple, originally the sole Hindu temple serving the northern part of Greater Houston, was scheduled to open in 2011. The temple, built for $3 million, is located in a 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2 ) stone exterior building on an 8-acre (3.2 ha) plot of land along the Woodlands Parkway.
It consists of a 11,500-square-foot (1,070 m 2), 73-foot (22 m) tall open-air temple and a 25,620-square-foot (2,380 m 2) surrounding deck. By July 2004 the cost to build the temple was $7 million at that time. The temple materials were carved out of Italian marble and Turkish limestone by 3,000 craftsmen in various parts of India. The pieces ...
Hill also known as Trikuta in Katra, Jammu and Kashmir, India, famous for the Vaishno-Devi temple Another Trikuta is located near the city of Katra, Jammu and Kashmir . Trikuta, the triple peak, is where the holy shrine of Vaishno Devi can be found.
Dane Kennedy, following Monika Bührlein, identifies three stages in the evolution of hill stations in India: high refuge to hill station, and hill station to town. The first settlements started in the 1820s, primarily as sanitoria. In the 1840s and 1850s, there was a wave of new hill stations, with the main impetus being "places to rest and ...
Gulmarg (Urdu pronunciation: [gʊlməɾɡ]), known as Gulmarag [4] (Kashmiri pronunciation: [ɡulmarɨɡ]; lit. ' meadow of flowers ')in Kashmiri, is a town, hill station, tourist destination, skiing destination, and a notified area committee in the Indian controlled part of the disputed territory Jammu and Kashmir [5] [6] [7] of north Kashmir’sBaramulla district in the Indian union ...
Toranmal is the prominent hill station of Khandesh region. Toranmal is located between latitude 21 degrees, 54 minutes N, and longitude 74 degrees, 27 minutes E and 74 degrees, 30 minutes E, at the height of 1,150 metres (3,770 ft) above mean sea level.