Penelope Chetwode Betjeman, daughter of
Field Marshal Lord Chetwode who commanded
the Indian army, trekked from Simla to Kulu
in 1936. She chose to return regularly later
in life to trek here, and has narrated her
experiences in her best seller “ Kullu - The
End of the Habitable World.” She passed away
here in 1986, in an area she loved so
muchTthis tour is dedicated to her memory.
The trek takes you to a bygone era, starting
with Simla, summer capital of the Raj, where
mock Tudor and Gothic buildings, churches,
schools and the Gaiety, Asia’s oldest
theatre, all bear testimony to a long gone
Edwardian world. You stay in a Maharaja’s
summer resort which is still run by members
of his family. En route to Kulu you camp in
gardens of rest houses built in a different
age, and dine by candle- light under starlit
skies. At night the chirruping crickets lull
you to sleep.
