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The nearest hill station is Dharamshala which is the headquarters of the Dalai Lama. Another hill-station around Adampur is McLeodganj. The Main Bazaar is the main market and one of the best areas to live in and around the town. It is situated in the center of Punjab and its two main cities, Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur.
Adampur Airport (IATA: AIP, ICAO: VIAX), is a domestic airport and an Indian Air Force base serving the cities of Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur in Punjab, India. It is located 6.7 km (4.2 mi) from Adampur town in Jalandhar district , 28 km (17 mi) from Jalandhar and 27 km (17 mi) from Hoshiarpur.
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 ...
Palampur is located in the Kangra Valley and is a well-known hill station that was historically part of the Jalandhar kingdom. The town developed when William Jameson, the superintendent of the Saharanpur Botanical Gardens, introduced the tea bush from Almora in 1849. With increased trade activity, a commercial trade fair was introduced by Sir ...
Khajjiar is a hill station near the town of Chamba in Chamba district ofHimachal Pradesh, India, located approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) from Dalhousie.It lies on a small plateau with a stream-fed lake at its center.
Barog is a hill station, near City of Solan in Solan district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The station lies on UNESCO World Heritage Site Kalka–Shimla Railway . Set in the mountains Barog is just 60 km (37 mi) from Chandigarh on the Kalka-Shimla highway.
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.
Jogindernagar, or Jogindar Nagar ([dʒoːˈɡɪnd̪ər nəˈɡər]), is a municipality, and a sub district in Mandi district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.Named after Raja Joginder Sen, the hill station is the terminus of the 163-kilometre-long (101 mi) Kangra Valley narrow-gauge railway.