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Mussoorie is at an average altitude of 2,005 metres (6,578 ft). To the northeast are the Himalayan snow ranges, and to the south, the Doon Valley and Shiwalik ranges. The second highest point is the original Lal Tibba in Landour, with a height of over 2,275 m (7,464 ft). Mussoorie is popularly known as The Queen of the Hills. [4] [5]
It is situated 16 km (9.9 mi) away from Landour cantonment, 57 kilometres (35 mi) from Mussoorie and 148 kilometres (92 mi) from New Tehri in the Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. The Nag Tibba Range is one of the three principal ranges of the Lesser Himalayas , along with the Dhauladhar and the Pir Panjal , which branch off from the Great ...
The valley has three types of sub-alpine zones as follows: foothills alpine between 3,200 m and 3,500 m which is the upper height limit for trees, lower alpine between 3,500 m and 3,700 m, and higher alpine above 3,700 m. The habitats include valley bottom, river bed, small forests, meadows, eroded, scrubby and stable slopes, moraine, plateau ...
Mussoorie, called as queen of hill stations. Hill stations are high-altitude towns for recreation, enjoyment and used as a place of refuge to escape the blistering heat in India during summertime. As India is a vast country with limited amounts of the coastal area most of its towns and districts face continental type of climate with summer ...
Dhanaulti is a quiet hill station at an elevation of 2286 meters above sea level, it offers panoramic views of the lofty Himalayas.. Situated in the foothills of the Garhwal Himalayan range located 40 km (25 mi) from New Tehri, the district headquarter, 30 km from the hill station of Mussoorie.
Landour 1869 Landour. Landour is located in the Lower Western Himalaya, in the Mussoorie Range, the second of the five parallel folds of the Himalaya.On average, Landour is about 984 ft (300 m) above Mussoorie, which itself is mostly at an altitude of 6,800 to 7,798 ft (2,073 to 2,377 m).
Happy Valley is near the Indian Administrative Services Academy - Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration. Within the valley is a Tibetan Monastery [1] with a clear view of Hathipaon. [2] [3] Happy Valley is west of Mussoorie’s Dalai Hill [4] from where the mountain ranges of Jaunpur [5] and Nag-Tibba [6] are visible.
Doon Valley, Dehradun, 1850s. The Doon Valley is an unusually wide, long valley within the Sivalik Hills and the Lesser Himalayas, in the Indian states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. Within the valley lies the city of Dehradun, the winter capital of Uttarakhand state.