Khajjiar Lake " Khajjiar , The Mini Switzerland " The nature 's beautiful landscape architecture.

 The beautiful hill station Khajjiar is located in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, the one beautiful hill state of India. It is about 24 Km from Dalhousie on the way to Chamba. 

It is situated at an altitude of 1951 metres from mean sea level, it was christened "The Mini Switzerland " by Swiss Envoy Willy P. Blazer on, 7 th July 1992.In the presence of Indian Panel of officers Mr. P. Blazer put up an yellow Swiss hiking footpath sign board which formally & officially declared Khajjiar as "Mini Switzerland "

The actual distance from the Swiss capital Berne to Khajjiar,  6194 Km is written on the sign board. Mr. P Blazer had taken a stone from Khajjiar to Switzerland  which was made part of stone sculpture  installed opposite the Parliament mansion in capital Berne. Thus Khajjiar became the 160 th tourist spot in the world map to be christened "Mini Switzerland ".

Khajjiar  the beautiful hill station in North of Himachal is having a 12th  century Khajji Nag temple which is dedicated to a serpent God. 

The beautiful khajjiar lake is located in the centre of vast , heart touching grassy meadow, measuring 1.5 km in length and 1km in width, surrounded by long, tall  Cedar and Deodar  trees. The coordinates of  Khajjiar   are  :-

32.0462344° N,  76.0580921° E. 

With its alluring charm, soothing quietness, cool, clean air  with abundant natural beauty Khajjiar   is having centre of attraction for the tourists. 

To make  Khajjiar more attractive, the lake has to be cleared of weeds and silt, horse riding circular track needs a drain to take off the rain water out of the bowl. 

Numbers of tourists from different parts of the country and abroad visit Khajjiar every year. 

Some beautiful picture of Khajjiar :-

       Baby enjoying snow covered mountains. 

      Another beautiful picture of recent snow. 

         Beautiful picture Taken during visit area

Near by the high altitude Khajjiar lake is surrounded by beautiful Deodar and cedar forests and west, kalatop wildlife Sanctuary, which home to animals.    

                Another Picture  of Mountains. 

The lake is also visited by local people  to offer prayers at Kali temple located on the bank of lake. 

Looking the beauty and quietness of this real heaven on earth which is a " Mini Switzerland of India "  the sensuousness and beauty of Keat's poetry and Wordsworth's belief in quietness and strength of nature come  alive and are perceptibly felt at Khajjiar. One must visit Khajjiar. 

                   I love  nature . 

                    Er. R C Verma