Through the foothills on foot: in the shadow of Nanda Devi, a new initiative is coaxing visitors into an overwhelmingly rural environment and giving them a flavour of hill life, while at the same time, helping to halt the depopulation of local villages Amar Grover takes a stroll through the foothills the Indian Himalaya and discovers a lost world of pine forests and hemp fields.(RURAL TOURISM)

From: Geographical | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Grover, Amar | Copyright information

"Here, look!" My guide, Raju, points urgently at the ground. There on the trail amid the shade and fallen leaves of a deodar tree lies a neat little pile of rounded, brown-black droppings. Pale mouldy-looking threads seem to encase them. "Calcium," Raju announces. "From bones ... probably ate a small deer."

Above us, there's a small cave formed by a large boulder balanced on the thickly forested hillside. Raju's companion Hem crawls inside, his torch picking out pugmarks...

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