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Things to Do in Bir Billing

If you visit Bir and stay inside the four premises of a hotel you are surely missing out an exquisite experience of enjoying your vacation in the lap of nature. If you want to enjoy the unadulterated beauty of the place, go for camping. 

It is a divine experience that is beautiful way beyond words can express it. Camp Oak view in Bir helps you to enjoy an explicit experience of camping. It is situated at a distance of 3 km from the town of Bir. Camping at Bit will provide you with a magnificent opportunity of enjoying the raw beauties of nature without any disturbances. 

What can be a better and exciting activity other than trekking when you are in the mountains?  Bir Billing is the perfect place for you if you are an adventure enthusiast and trekking has always been your dream. 

There are a number of tours and travel packages which offers a complete trip of Bir and its surrounding places at reasonable prices, which starts from eight thousand rupees per person. You can stay at tents and go for early morning treks under trained supervision and proper guidance. 

These packages offer you trained guides who are experts in the field of trekking and other mountain adventure activities. So you don’t need to worry if you are a novice in the activity of trekking. You can put your faith in them for a holistic experience.

The Chokling Monastery is situated in Bir and is the epitome of beauty and cultural exuberance. A short visit inside the premises of this monastery is sure to leave you to spellbound and will enhance your yearning to leave the city and reside here amidst the peaceful ambiance. 

There is also a retreat center inside of it, where you can take refuge, far away from your hectic city lives. The entrance to the monastery is decorated with sculptures and painted stones which bears the stories of numerous Tibetan monks and their lives. 

A sprawling lush green lawn in front of the meditation center with multicolored flags fluttering in the air create a symphony of beauty and divinity, which is too unique to be true.

Among other places to visit in Bir Billing, Dharmalaya Institute is a popular one. It is a charitable organization which is devoted to education and empowerment for a compassionate and peaceful living.

 It is an eco-campus which offers numerous environmental programmes which teaches about the conservation of the environment and how to safeguard it from any kind of disaster. It is located at a distance of 4kms from Bir Bazar.

It offers programmes like sustainable development and organic farming. It offers both short-term workshops and long tenure programmes. It also offers a number of vocational courses along with courses and classes in yoga and meditation.

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A guide to Bir Billing cites the spectacular beauty of the tea gardens and tea factory of Bir. The Bir tea factory is located in the central area of Bir Bazar. The climate of Bir Billing makes it an ideal place for the tea plantation and tea growth. 

The slopes and the hilly region is perfectly apt for tea manufacture. Varied kinds of tea are grown and are processed under particular conditions in the Bir Tea factory. It is famous for organic tea plantation. 

It is also a visual treat to the tourists visiting Bir to look at the slopes nurturing the tea plantations and women and young girls in rows plucking them with the huge baskets tied to their heads.

Established in the early 1960s It is a Tibetan refugee settlement in the Himalayan village of Chowgan. It is situated on the outskirts of the town of Bir. It was established after the exile of Dalai Lama and other refugees from the land of Tibet. It is a major spot of tourist attraction in Bir as it is a place which is filled with many monasteries. 

It also has a handicraft center which has a varied range of handmade products by the locals of the place. They are sold at a reasonable price. You can buy various products from there and carry it back as a souvenir for your friends and relatives. 

Many tourists put up here because it has a lot of guest houses and pretty little cafes where you can spend a quiet evening sipping a hot cup of coffee in the chilled weather and chat to your heart’s content.

This monastery resonates with the Tibetan culture and teachings of the Tibetan heritage that the Tibetan colony of Bir Billing is famous for. It has a lot of inscriptions and stone sculptors which has documentation of various sects and sub-sects of Tibetan culture. 

It bears lineage to the culture of the Tibetan monks and the tradition has been carried forward by the next generations of Tibetan monks. A visit to this monastery will accustom you with the place’s historical and aesthetic significance. 

Besides this, it is also a place of angelic beauty which will soothe your mind and rid you off from any mental turbulence.

The hills are always the perfect place for tea plantations. Bir Billing is also no exception in this regard. The hilly terrains and the weather and climatic conditions of the place make it an apt place for extensive tea cultivation. 

Chowgan tea gardens are one such tea plantation area where different varieties of tea are grown and nurtured. Tea grown in this garden is being packed and exported to different parts of the country.

Tourists paying a visit to Bir especially go to Chowgan Tea plantation to buy huge amounts of packed tea which are sold at a very reasonable price and are a guarantee of money and taste.

Bir has located approximately at a distance of 50 km southeast of Dharamshala. It is 14 km south of Billing, which lies on the way to the Thamsar Pass leading to Bara Bhangal. Kullu Manali Airport at Bhuntar is the nearest airport from Billing. The nearest railway station is at Joginder Nagar, from where Billing can be reached by a half an hour taxi ride. 

Bir can be reached by an hour ride from Dharamsala too. You can also access the Pathankot junction, which is about 85 km away from Dharamsala. There are Volvo buses which ply from Delhi to Dharamsala and take an approximate time of about ten hours. You can reach Bir from Dharmasala within 2 hours by road.

Being a hill station it has a moderately cool climate throughout the year. However, the best time to visit the place is in the summers, during the months of April-June. The winters are not a good time to visit the hill station because of the chilly weather and the temperature which drops down to negatives. The monsoons are also not a good idea because of the heavy rainfalls which result in landslides.

So if you are planning for your next holiday destination, you should definitely explore the pristine valleys and the lofty mountains of Bir Billing. It will give you the much-needed break from the cacophony and listlessness of the everyday life where we hardly have time to admire nature and its relentless beauties.