The Bridge on the River Uhl
A makeshift bridge made of wooden planks across the River Uhl in remote Barot valley in Mandi district in the state of Himachal Pradesh ,India.You can see the remains of an older bridge probably built by the British during the colonial era.
Barot is a village developed in the 1920s by the British for the Shanan Hydel project on the Uhl River.It is situated in an extremely remote and picturesque little valley about 25 kms off the Mandi-Jogindernagar highway in Himachal Pradesh.The valley is watered by the Uhl River and is famous for trout breeding.There are forests of Deodar,Oak and Rhododendron and pretty little villages surrounded by terraced fields which were golden with ripening wheat when we visited in April 2016..Barot is at a distance of about 40 kms from the town of Jogindernagar but the British had also built a funicular trolley which reduces the distance to 12 kms.However the trolley ,as far as I could gather ,is no londger functional.
Barot is at the moment an off-beat tourist destination and I fervently hope it remains so at least for a few more years.
The Bridge on the River Uhl
A makeshift bridge made of wooden planks across the River Uhl in remote Barot valley in Mandi district in the state of Himachal Pradesh ,India.You can see the remains of an older bridge probably built by the British during the colonial era.
Barot is a village developed in the 1920s by the British for the Shanan Hydel project on the Uhl River.It is situated in an extremely remote and picturesque little valley about 25 kms off the Mandi-Jogindernagar highway in Himachal Pradesh.The valley is watered by the Uhl River and is famous for trout breeding.There are forests of Deodar,Oak and Rhododendron and pretty little villages surrounded by terraced fields which were golden with ripening wheat when we visited in April 2016..Barot is at a distance of about 40 kms from the town of Jogindernagar but the British had also built a funicular trolley which reduces the distance to 12 kms.However the trolley ,as far as I could gather ,is no londger functional.
Barot is at the moment an off-beat tourist destination and I fervently hope it remains so at least for a few more years.