Summer station

For the third leg of the Magnificent India drive we head to a little-known town in the foothills of the Himalayas around Mussoorie to explore this almost untouched Raj era summer station

Nestled in the second of the five folds of the Himalayas, the Mussoorie hills have been the ideal getaway from the scorching north Indian summers since the days of the Raj. George Everest, who aside from having the world’s tallest mountain for a namesake, is the man credited with putting most of continental India on the map in his time as Surveyor General of India. After having seen everything that magnificent India had to offer, he still chose to settle in a location on outskirts of Mussoorie. To understand why and what makes this region so special, we hopped into the brand-new Hyundai i20 iMT and made a bee-line for the hills for our next edition of the Magnificent India series.

Of course, with the pandemic in the picture, before we did hit the road, we got tested. Many state borders require a negative COVID-19 certificate to cross, many don’t. Either way the responsible thing to do to ensure that you are not a danger to yourself or others is to carry a negative RT-PCR with you.