Uttarakhand Take a Look!

Welcome to this section of my blog, where you can find all about Uttarakhand, Uttarakhand tourism, Uttarakhand News, Garhwali songs and Kumaoni songs.

  

About Uttarakhand:

Uttarakhand- At 9 Nov, 2000 Uttarakhand became the 27th state on India. Before it, Uttarakhand was a part of Uttar Pradesh. Uttarakhand occupies 17.3% of total land of India and has 51,125 sq km area. In its borders, Nepal is on the East, Haryana is on the West, Uttar Pradesh to the south, Tibet on the North and Himachal Pradesh on the North West.

Uttarakhand has totle 13 districts:

Almora, Bageshwar, Chamoli, Champawat, Dehradun, Haridwar, Nainital, Pithoragarh, Rudraprayag, Tehri Garhwal, Udham Singh Nagar and Uttarkashi

Uttaranchal, was interim name of the state and in January 2007, its name changed to Uttarakhand officially. At the present Mr. Ramesh Pokariyal “Nishank” is chief Minister of Uttarakhand. Dehradun is Interim capital on India, and district High Court of this state is in Nanital. Hindi, Garhwali and Kumaoni are some basic languages spoken in Uttarakhand state.

Uttarakhand Tourism:

Uttarakhand has great diversity of the region. You can find here green hills, snow-clad mountains, fertile valleys, flowing rivers and thriving lakes. Uttarakhand is known as the Abode of the gods (Devbhumi), here are some several highly venerated pilgrimage places like Badrinath, Chittai, Gangotri, Haridwar, Hemkund Sahib, Kaliyar Sharif, Kedarnath, Nanakmatta Sahib, Panchbadri, Panchkedar, Panchprayag, Purnagiri, Rishikesh, Rettha Sahib, Yamunotri etc. Here are many touris and historical places also, which are very famous between tourists.

Uttarakhand tourism is very popular in international and domestic tourists. Several adventure sports activities like ice-skiing, trekking, sailing, boating, white water rafting, kayaking, yachting, canoeing, parasailing and water-skiing are the most attraction of Uttarakhand tourism. Uttarakhand tourism also provides abundant wildlife sanctuaries and national parks visits, which makes Uttarakhand tourism more exiting in between tourists. Corbett National Park is well known into the visitors and other parks and sanctuaries are Flower National Park, Nanda Devi National Park, Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuaries, Assan Barrage National Park, Govind National Park, Rajaji National Park and.

In the end I want to say that Uttarakhand is an amazing place for tourism, sports, wild life adventure and spiritual travel, so plan your holidays in the state for next and make your holidays memorable with this adventurous place. Various online agents and offline agents provide Uttarakhand tours packages at discounted price. These Uttarakhand tours packages are available at any time of the year and can be booked easily through internet. Different agents provide different service on Uttarakhand tours packages but all these Uttarakhand tours packages are easily available within the budget.