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#Pangot, a tiny hamlet in #Uttarakhand that hosts hundreds of variety of birds and very few humans

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By @Kavitamajumdar

@Kavitamajumdar The heat is upon us, and like the Britishers, we too need to flee from the scorching plains and make a beeline for the hills during the unbearable summer months.

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@Kavitamajumdar Luckily, there are plenty of hills one can visit, particularly around #Delhi, but alas, most of these destinations are so well-known that, at times, they can get more crowded than the very city you wanted to escape.

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@Kavitamajumdar Thankfully, for the traveller who cares not for boat rides or tacky souvenirs, there are a few (very few) places that are both easily accessible and provide for respite from the heat and the crowds — and Pangot is one such place.

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@Kavitamajumdar Around 334 kilometres from Delhi, #Pangot in #Uttarakhand is a quiet village where the sheer population of birds outnumbers that of humans. Pangot is just 17 kilometres from #Nainital, and that is where the comparison ends.

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@Kavitamajumdar While Nainital is loud and bashful, #Pangot is its calm and composed sister. And, that is where the magic is. This is a sleepy little place where travellers have nothing to do and nowhere to go.

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@Kavitamajumdar This birders’ paradise boasts over 350 species of birds, including shiny blue verditer flycatchers, maroon orioles, spotted forktails, pheasants, woodpeckers, partridges, thrushes, finches, warblers, brown wood owl, among many others.

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@Kavitamajumdar But if birding is your jam, grab a picnic basket and your camera & head to the almost perennial stream (nala) that is an ideal place for a picnic as well as capturing a variety of birds, including but not limited to, spotted forktail and the long-billed thrush on camera.

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@Kavitamajumdar A simple walk in the woods will reward you with bird sightings like the rufous sibia, black-headed jay, streaked laughing thrush, striated laughing thrush, blue whistling thrush, Himalayan bulbul, the green-backed tit, and more.

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@Kavitamajumdar You can also trek to #Kilbury (around 3 kilometres), from where you can get an excellent view of the #NandaDevi mountain range from Naina Peak or Tanki Band, especially if you are there between October and March.

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@Kavitamajumdar Should you be itching to shop a little, you can visit the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission in Pangot that has a welfare project for local women who make some excellent woollen sweaters, shawls, socks, hats and more.

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