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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
For complete state-wise list, see : List of hill stations in India. Subcategories. This category has the following 24 subcategories, out of 24 total. ...
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.
The airports are operated and owned by either the Airports Authority of India and Government of Punjab or private companies. [1] There are three international airports, nine domestic airports, four private airports and one military base in Punjab.There are three disused airports, one of them serving as a flying school.
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 ...