Quirky
Facts
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The UNSESCO inscribed World Heritage Kalka
Shimla Railway originally had 107 tunnels.
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The Mall is still one of the longest
only-pedestrian shopping streets in the World. At one time, a part of the road
was left unpaved for the use of horses. The tarmac would be washed daily and
even oiled on special occasions.
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Shimla southern slope is considered to be one
of the world’s most densely populated hill slopes.
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The popular American song writer, Cole Porter
put a line in I’ve shooting box in Scotland. I’ve a bungalow in Shimla.
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Mahatma Gandhi visited Shimla around a dozen
time. His longest stays were at the residence of Rajkumair Amrit Kaur, ‘Manorville’
in Summer Hill.
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The Hindustan Tibet Road was the perhaps the
first mountain high way to be build on such a scale anywhere in the world.
