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Feb by glacial ice and pure snow melt the river Pabbar rises
in the Chanshal range-just south of Kinnaur. It
finally drains into the Tons at Tiuni. Like countless branches reaching
out of valleys and down mountainsides. Several side streams like the
Andhra, Pejore and Shikri, pour there wash into the Pabbar.
Here, for the sake of identification it is called this the "Pabbar
Valley Trail", but includes several other places which are en route
to the valley- or lie a little away from it.
A
century and a half ago, practically all the beauty and wonder of
present-day Himachal Pradesh lay is secluded isolation.
Apart from its inhabitants, few knew of them and fewer still had seen
them.
And that was about the time when the first alignment of the ambitious
Hindustan-Tibet Road was taken to link Shimla with the Tibetan border. In
the decades hat followed, it was largely along this route that people came
to experience some of Himachal's fable vistas.
For travellers in the old days, when traffic moved on foot or on horse
back, the tiny village of 'Theog', and heads towards the Pabbar Valley and
beyond has the lure of that pristine world. Here, like a long unseen
flower on the mountainside, this tract has bloomed with a beauty and glory
of its own.
This is a tract that attracted even the British Viceroys of India, who
explored, hunted and camped here. Pabbar valley comprise of roads less
travelled, trekking and fishing that set one's pulse racing, ancient
temples and legends and charming architecture, serenity of picturesque
hamlets, fruit-laden orchards cradled by thick woods and set by swift
streams. Wish to experience a place where man and nature live as one, then
come to the Pabbar Valley.