Popular tourist resort Khajjiar dons white mantle
Balkrishan Prashar
Dalhousie, December 15
Last evening, snowfall in and around Khajjiar hill resort covered the entire forest area, which is part of the Kalatop-Khajjiar sanctuary.
About 24 km from Dalhousie, Khajjiar is situated in the foothills of Dhauladhar ranges of the western Himalayas.
On July 7, 1992, Willy T Blazer, vice counsellor and head of Chancery of Switzerland in India, brought Khajjiar on the world tourism map by christening it as “Mini Switzerland”. He put a signboard of a yellow Swiss hiking footpath showing Khajjiar’s distance from the Swiss capital Berne — 6,194 km. Khajjiar is among the 160 locations in the world that bear topographical resemblance with Switzerland.
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