Explore world's highest village Kibber

Kibber: The Gem of Spiti Valley

Winding roads, picturesque valleys offering glimpses of the beautiful cold desert, and intermittent greenery at places welcome you into the Spiti Valley. Calling it a paradise on earth won’t be anything wrong, as the world’s mightiest mountain range – the Himalayas – makes Spiti a perfect destination for adventure travel junkies. Spiti is all about highlands elevated several thousand feet above the sea level (12,500 feet), mountain lakes, glacial water and monasteries perched on the edge of the hilltops. What else do you need to make your holiday full of adventure and thrill?

Kaza

Driving along NH-22, past Khab confluence and Nako village, when you reach Kaza you already have a lot to be exuberant about. Travelling hundreds of kilometres on the desolate roads, where there are virtually no traces of human race, with great scenery all around is got to be fun. Kaza even some years back was the perfect getaway for tourists visiting the Spiti Valley. But in the recent years, Kaza is gradually headed for the same destiny as that of the Mall Road, Manali or Shimla. The serpent of commercialization seems to be gobbling the small rural township with its mighty jaws. Still the town has managed to retain its charm because of its natural beauty and vibrant colours you see in shops and houses. A better option, therefore, is moving out of the town and exploring surrounding areas, which include Key Monastery and the Kibber village.

Key Monastery

Once you have had enough of Kaza, all you have to do is board an HRTC bus at Kaza and embark on a 14 km-long journey to Key Monastery. It takes hardly half an hour to reach the 1000-year-old monastery on a hilltop. The road takes you up to the monastery gate from where a long flight of concrete stairs ushers you into the front hall of the monastery. The monastery, which hosts the largest number of monks and nuns in the entire Spiti valley, has ancient Buddhist murals and paintings.

Kibber – World’s Highest Village

After you have completed the trip through Key Monastery, it is time to embark on another 15-minute-long drive from the monastery courtyard which takes you to the highest village in the world. The village is situated at an altitude of 4,270 m and is well connected to the outer world via a road. It’s not only the highest inhabited village in the world, but also the highest polling station, and home to the highest education institution (high school) in the world.

Surrounded by hills and scenic sights on all sides, Kibber is a delightful place to visit for any explorer. Serenity and pristine beauty of the village will definitely captivate your imagination. Enjoy the community life in this small village by choosing home stays. In the morning, stroll across the village at a normal pace as, Kibber is one of the highest places in the world, you will find it hard to breathe while you explore the village. You can watch the farmers ploughing their fields; enjoy some locally produced dry fruits and fresh fruits. The generous villagers will welcome you with open arms. As the day wears out Spiti River flowing beside the village turns into molten gold during sunset, it is a sight you cannot miss. If you like some entertainment, follow the villagers to a small community hall, situated right in the middle of the village. The only television set in the village of Kiber can be found here and the community enjoys the shows together.

Meaning of Spiti is “the middle land” as the valley is embedded between India and Tibet. This is why all the villages in Spiti including Kibber have a tinge of distinctive Tibetan Buddhism in their culture and lifestyle. It’s deep rooted in everyday life here. Local people can be seen rejoicing at local Buddhist festivals. These festivals provide a prefect platform for exhibiting harmony and cultural exchange in local community. People dress in colourful attires to be a part of local fests like Fagli and Gochi. Other famous fairs are Ladarcha, Pauri, and Tsheshu. July and August are months of celebration as the later three are celebrated in these two months. Most of the fairs are celebrated on maiden slopes of Kibber village where traders from Kullu, Lahaul, Kinnaur, Rampur and Spiti trade their produces.

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Tourist places for June

Best places in India for visiting during June:

Lazy summer afternoons, temperatures lingering with ice-teas and lemon sodas and idle holidays almost asking you to step out into a vacation. Sounds June enough? Let’s try another version, with 12 places to visit in June in India- its temperature, season, dates and holidays. Pick the one for you, for a June that says ‘GET.SET.PACK AND HOLIDIFY’.

1. Spiti, Himachal Pradesh

- A lesser known adventure

Picture credits: Thomas K @panoramio

If you are into mountain biking, you should probably be packing your bags for Spiti by now, for it is a place to visit in June in India that can offer a ride you don’t want to miss. Even otherwise Spiti has a bit of every color from some of the highest lakes in the world, monasteries to an unseen charm of these mountain desert valleys.

2. Srinagar-Jammu and Kashmir

- For a  house on a lake.

Picture credits: Mobeen

One moment getting up to a beautiful sunrise on your houseboat, while going for a Shikara ride through Dal lake and countless flowers, in another. This is pretty much what Srinagar feels like, be it its gardens, lakes like skies you can ride through or the most photogenic views your camera might hold.

3. Mussoorie, Uttaranchal

- The picture perfect hill station your summers are incomplete without

Picture credits: Mani Babbar

Mussoorie has been an escape from the unforgiving heat in the plains since the colonial era, and is still pretty wonderful at that job. This ‘Queen of hill stations’ has a bit of history and most of nature’s pretty gifts from streams to waterfalls to make an ideal summer vacation place to visit in June in India for you.

4.Kudremukh, Karnataka

- Literally meaning horse-faced, this one is brimming with lush greenery

Picture credits: RahulIR

Kudremukh has been a popular getaway from Bangalore for a while now and with some natural hotspots and a mountain range recognized as a UNESCO world heritage site, this one needs to be marked out in your calender this June. Its got all you can ask from a hill station and some of the most dense and green forests you might ever go trekking through.

5. Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh

- Your escape into a scenery of spirituality and colorful monasteries

Jung Falls at Tawang (Source)

Tawang is popular as the birth place of Dalai Lama and is an almost perfect destination with its sceneries echoing with chants of spirituality and Buddhism. Tawang has many monasteries laid out all across its mystical landscapes, with Tawang Monastery being the most popular one.

6. Mudumalai, Tamil Nadu

- For an exotic break with the rarest of creatures

Picture credits: Ranjith

If your idea of this summer is about exotic flora and fauna, spotting wildlife around lush green forests and bird-watching with skies filled with rare varieties of birds, then Madumalai is beyond perfect. With views inherited from the Nilgiris, Madumalai National Park can offer you a truly memorable June.

7. Aizawl,Mizoram

-A summer tinted in cultures and colors of Mizos

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Aizwal can be the very colorful and lively bit of the North-East you want to explore this summer. A state museum, highest waterfall in the area, a lake borrowed from a fairy-tale, hills and picturesque views, this capital is a simple summer getaway which will almost leave you enchanted.

8. Lansdowne, Uttarakhand

- A summer vacation right from the colonial era

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This is the place to visit in June in India for you if you want peace, calm and quiet on one hand and adventure, Jungle Safaris and trekking on the other, on demand. For the rest of your time here, you can let the beauty that the area shares with the Himalayas refresh and fascinate you as you walk through its landscapes full of pine and oak.

9.  Hemis, Jammu and Kashmir

- Your vacation borrowed from paradise

Picture credits: Sandepachetan

Ever thought what it would be like to have sceneries borrowed from paradise filled with colors of Buddhist festivals, chants and awe- inspiring monasteries? Hemis is the very place to visit in India that this dream would look like, with each side of it,  beyond imagination and absolutely breathtaking.

10. North Sikkim, Sikkim

- Like most magical things this one too is lesser known and mostly uninhabited

Picture credits: Rohan Singh

This one is mystical, magical and serene and all yours to keep for the summers. It is one of the most uninhabited areas of the country given the harsh conditions, but summers will let you see its softer and welcoming side. Along with one of the highest lakes of  India, North Sikkim is the home to the most heaven-like landscapes and views.

11. Ponmudi, Kerala

- Your pleasant surprise from the Western ghats

Picture credits: Seema Krishnkumar

While most of Kerala deals with a hot and humid summer, this hill station is a pleasant surprise for the area. It checks all columns on your list with a Golden Valley, tea plantations, water springs, waterfalls and streams, a deer park and sparkling green surroundings almost defining the area. Top it up with a bit of excitement with trekking and mountain climbing and there it is – an ideal summer vacation in India.

12. Hemkund Sahib, Uttarakhand

- A vacation more spiritual

Picture credits: Harmeet S. Sidhu @panoramio

This is the place to visit in June in India if you want to be someplace which has lakes and mountains guarding a temple and a gurudwara which have histories as sacred as the air here. And if you are running a bit late this June you might get to witness a Valley of Flowers, nearby almost ready to bloom in the coming month.

Horoscope for Wednesday 01st June 2016

Horoscope for Wednesday 01st June 2016

Curious to know what sort of day you're going to have today? Your free horoscope will help you to plan your day, each and every day.

Aries

March 21 - April 19

A financial, property, business, charity or retail story from around April 17th now returns for the third time (and also the last time). From 7th June you can put this behind you.

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Taurus

April 20 - May 20

Mercury Retrograde is the least understood cycle in astrology but it has affected your role, title, appearance, image or 'portrait' in the public eye for weeks. One last turn, now, helps you turn your back on one story.

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Gemini

May 21 - June 20

Your ruler Mercury now comes back to a horoscope area which describes your secrets, your unconscious mind, your role behind the scenes and all confidential matters. As Lenny Kravitz famously observed, 'It ain't over 'til it's over' and yet - at last - it's on the way.

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Cancer

June 21 - July 22

Friendships and group involvements of all kinds, from meditation circles to political parties, have led you round in circles since April. Now, you can see the full, final, firm, fixed and finished details after rather a long period of flux.

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Leo

July 23 - August 22

Your career, your ambitions, your success and your status have all been impossible to resolve since April, yet for the third and final time, Mercury will spin his wheels and this time the information exchange can actually be called final.

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Virgo

August 23 - September 22

The reason you have seen one situation loop the loop, rather like a Spitfire, is simple. Your ruler Mercury has been spinning around in your zone of travel (and travel in the mind). This covers the internet, the world of books, knowledge, ideas, foreign and regional influences. Today, one loop closes.

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Libra

September 23 - October 22

Lucky you having not just one but two retrograde cycles affecting your money, property or business! It does sort itself out eventually, and one major leap forward will be made today, as you realise one episode which began in mid April can be laid to rest.

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Scorpio

October 23 - November 21

Your former, current or potential partner? Your enemy, rival or opponent? I am sure you wish one particular piece of news, discussion or plan had never started as it has taken an unfeasibly long time to get anywhere - yet today, a mid-April episode can be finished.

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Sagittarius

November 22 - December 21

Mercury's retrograde cycle is horribly misunderstood, as the planet of communication, information and transportation spins his wheels backwards and forwards (especially with your working life or your body) longer than many online astrologers suggest. From today, though, there is resolution.

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Capricorn

December 22 - January 19

Babies, children and teenagers are all described by this cycle, now. So are lovers who might bring this generation closer to you one day - or youth as a whole. No wonder nothing has been firm or finished. Yet, as Mercury swoops past for the third time in the same position, you can call something Over. O-v-e-r.

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Aquarius

January 20 - February 18

Your house, apartment, household, town, country or family is at the core of a rather peculiar cycle which began in mid-April for you and is still not resolved. Yet, very soon, you will have that discussion, news or piece of paper which lets you know where you stand.

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Pisces

February 19 - March 20

Communication, information, negotiation, travel, multimedia, education, publishing and the internet are all at the heart of this rather odd cycle, which has seen you spinning your wheels for about six weeks. Now, at last, you can sign off on something. Or someone.

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