Surajit, great memories for sure nice amber color now, love it .. go again tourism can be a boone to their economy..
hope they realize this usha di On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:36 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > Sir, > > I visited Kashmir between 1981-83, i fail to remember the exact year, i > was a college student in those three years. I was with my parents, uncles > and some other relatives. We had a round tour, > Amritsar-Delhi-Pahelgaon-Kashmir-Gulmarg. We visited gardens, Dal Lake and > others and i took photographs of my parents in one of those Dhonga boats. > We had a minolta slr then, and since i was the photographer (i learned from > my father) there was almost no photograph of myself! > > Attaching three photographs, colour got faded by the time i scanned those > to make digital copies, but the memory is still fresh. > > Thank you very much, don't know if i will ever be able to visit all those > places once again. > > Regards, > > surajit > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dhonga in Kashmir is a smaller version of house boats (which are fixed >> and used as hotels in water mostly in Dal Lake) which is mobile and used >> for travelling of Groups within Dal Lake. I have fond memories of it, as it >> is mostly used for local excursion of schools. My father being a teacher >> would take me along at least twice in an year during his school excursions. >> It involved travelling in dhonga two to three hours each way, spending some >> time in a Moghul Garden (Nishat, Shalimar), all meals including breakfast, >> lunch and evening tea were cooked and served in the dhonga. A really >> enjoyable experience. >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Ritesh Kumar Choudhary < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Interesting post......and a wonderful discussion! >>> >>> Thanks to Surajit ji and all. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Ritesh. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Usha di =========== -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
