Himachal Pradesh is located in North-West part of India in the lap of the Great Himalayas. It is bordered by Jammu and Kashmir in the North Punjab in the West Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in the South and Tibet in the East. This beautiful state is divided into two parts Southern and Northern Himachal. The southern Himachal also known as Lower Himachal is a hot plain area, and the northern Himachal is less hot in summer and cold with snow in the winter.
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The beautiful vale of Kashmir is immensely fertile, its lush greenness contrasting with the barren roads of the upper slopes. Glacial rivers, their waters milky with the fragments of ice-ground rock flow swiftly through the valley floors. This is perhaps the last of the world's unspoilt ecological systems. Each species of plant, bird, insect and animal is subtly attuned in perfect harmony. Rivers and streams too, have trout which are both large and abundant.
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