"A Carpet of Lights" Mussoorie Things to Do Tip by anilpradhanshillong

As you stroll along the Mall you cannot help but notice the graceful sweep of the Doon valley stretched out below. The houses, the terraced cultivation, the road slithering and snaking down, the rolling hills, the fleecy clouds – all add to the charm of the exquisite scenery. But it is the gracefulness of the sweep that catches the eye. You feel you could take a sufficiently large piece of tin, make yourself comfortable on it and gleefully glide down to the valley below – just as you swept down the slide in your schoolyard.

As dusk falls, the magic begins. First a small light goes on in the valley below, then another, then the next. And so on, until the entire Doon is but a carpet of light, iridescent, shimmering, enchanting.

As John Northam wrote in his guide book more than a century ago:

“The eye never tires at looking down upon the Dun, with its multitude of lovely detail,
and commanding, as the visitor does, the view from an altitude of from 6,000 to 7,000
feet, the effect is charming, and, under some conditions of the atmosphere, enchanting.
Description is beyond the power of the pen.”

Address: Just look down whilst traversing the Mall