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Beer choo waterfall : Unlocking the tourism

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 PHYSICAL FEATURES The narrow road snakes its way through awe inspiring mountains and towering slopes, throwing up enormous clouds of dust. It passed by little hamlets, comprising a couple of houses built around pagoda-shaped mosques and box-like temples with sloping roofs made of corrugated iron. Children play cricket on improvised pitches on patches of land left fallow or laze around on conical haystacks. Weather-beaten Bakkarwal men, with their hennaed beards and loosely wound turbans, lead flocks of hairy mountain goats. Their children and womenfolk follow after them, driving mules laden with pots, pans and bedding - their mobile homes. The perfect picture of serenity.             Bhalessa is one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Doda. Straddling the border with Chamba in Himachal Pradesh, the area derived its name from its people "Bhalay Loug" (The right people with right destiny). The adjoining areas inclu...
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How Grierson understood Bhaderwahi language

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