Char Dukan of Landour on a Sunday afternoon!
Famed for its food - Char Dukani in Landour, Mussoorie. This is a small cluster of three shops/outdoor dhaba restaurants and a post office, and these turn out the best waffles, crepes and pancakes in the hills, with authentic maple syrup brought in by its patrons - mostly American and other international students of Woodstock School, and local residents of Landour town!
One of the most famous hangout joints of Landour, Mussoorie - The Char Dukani. Its near the Language school where foreigners learn Hindi. Its the start of the winter season with a little drizzle here and there. People, both locals and tourists visit Char Dukan to taste the famous tea and Maggi. The place got its name Char Dukani which means four shops by the number of shops it had. Although the tiny market has extended to 6 shops now but the name remains the same. Nearby is the famous St. Paul's church and a park with benches to sit, relax and enjoy the view with a cup of hot tea!
Landour a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India. The twin towns of Mussoorie and Landour, together, are a well-known British Raj-era hill station in northern India. Mussoorie-Landour was widely known as the Queen of the Hills. The name Landour is drawn from Llanddowror, a village in Carmarthenshire in southwest Wales. During the Raj, it was common to give nostalgic English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish names to one's home (or even to British-founded towns), reflecting one's ethnicity. Names drawn from literary works were also common, as from those by Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others.
Source - Wikipedia
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