Camel's Back Road Cemetery (Mussoorie)

India / Uttaranchal / Masuri / Mussoorie
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Early English settlers are buried here, including Mr. Bolley of brewery fame. Others are buried in Landour Cemetery on the north side of Lal Tibba.
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Coordinates:   30°27'43"N   78°4'35"E

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  • 'NOT A DEAD ISSUE'; GRAVE-YARDS, AT UPPER LANDOUR AND CAMEL's ROAD, MUSSOORIE; CHANDER NAGAR, DEHRADUN!According to a news item, ‘Cemetery Tourism’ has hit India with about six lakhs Britons, visiting India annually. Many of the tourists from British and other countries from Europe come to India to visit the Cemeteries, built during the British Empire. Tourists from these areas would, also, like to visit their own roots, their fore-fathers, who died and buried in Doon Dun, Rajpur, Landour and Mussoorie. Naturally, tourists would like to come and visit the Cemeteries in Doon Valley. Uttarakhand Tourism Department should maintain and take care of the cemeteries. A record of old graves and maps of cemeteries, showing locations of towns, can be made available for tourists, on their website. The cemeteries at Mussoorie and Dehra Dun should be properly maintained. Tourism Department should be in touch with ‘The British Association of Cemeteries in South India (BACSA)’and abroad. Some of the famous cemeteries can also be seen at Meerut, Lucknow, Roorkie, Simla, Kasauli, Mcleodgang, Dalhousie, Pathankot, Delhi, Shillong, Kohima, Darjeeling, Calcutta, Lucknow and other garrisons and cantonments in North India and also the places in South India and North-east of India .I have been lucky to see some of the cemeteries .Tremendous potential is available for tourism in India, waiting from Europe. During my child-hood (in 1950’s), I spent my happy days in Mussoorie, where I spent my evenings in the Cemeteries at Upper Landour and Camel’s Back, every week. Cemeteries, even now, fascinate me. I always love and haunt me, when I visited a cemetery. I also visited twice at Kohima, Nagaland in 1967 and 1995.I spent some memorable, a few hours, at ‘War Memorial’. ‘We gave our life today, saved their tomorrow’, a beautiful cemetery, built during Second World War. I was going through the history, reading epitaphs, inscribed on the graves. I was lost in past, I visited the cemetery, as if I came for pilgrimage or ‘Teertha Yatra’, with flower. In 1991, a lady came from Britain and I accompanied her to visit a grave of a distant relative at Camel’s Back Road. I located the grave. She was over-whelmed and exclaimed “I came to India, Thank God; I came for ‘Teertha- yatra’, as the Hindus would say ‘for a pilgrimage’. I am doubly blessed, visited the cemetery and also stayed in India, for a few days more.” References: 1. Ruskin Bond and Ganesh Saili (1997), Mussoorie & Landour, an Imprint of Roli Books, New Delhi. 2. Sunday Times, Nov.2006.
  • I was enjoying, under the trees, right, surrounding me, all over the graves! Sooner or latter, we must understand and we must meet, 'HIM' ONLY, after COMPLETING our jobs, given by 'HIM', only! 'Pene-planing', a term, in Geomorphology! Please request and explain us, 'Pene-planing', by a some Geo-morphologist! The 'Nature' has been creating us, animals / fish / birds / insects / the land-forms, on the earth, Space or waters; 'IT' would rear them, like small drains crossing the hurdles and mix with the rivers and meet, finally, into the 'SEA', only!
  • I recently went to massoorie with friends to enjoy my weekend it was all going good and we all were enjoying.As we were passing through THE MALL ROAD my friends saw a video game shop they all went in the shop i never liked video games so i left them and went for sideseeing.As i was walking i don't know why but my feet turned towards the camel's back road.While walking i was thinking of something and i was in my own world but when i realised that it was quite a long time i properly concentrated at the place and i looked for people around me but i found that i was all alone there.the road was very deserted and not even a single human around me,but the breeze was good so i was liking to stay there.As i was there i was peeping here and there my eyes stuck to the pathway going down out of curosity i took that path and as i was moving down i felt things to be very odd and as i reached down things were out of my expectation.It was a graveyard as i saw it and my legs got frozen over there and i tried to move but i was not able to move even an inch but somehow i managed to run as i reached my room i took sower but while i was taking bath i saw that there were nail scraches all over my back.I AM SHARING THIS SO THAT ANY ONE ELSE SHOULD NOT REPEAT MY MISTAKE
  • Guys I second Saurabh in his opinion. Had I read his comments before I would not have visited the place at all. Request you all to please don't visit this cemetry after dusk. Strength of your heart is immaterial. I don't think many come out alive from this place to write comments here on Wikimapia. I visited this cemetry on 29th and 30th July 2010 with Hotel California of Eagles buzzing in my ipod and I had some strange experiences both the times. They were beyond logic and science. And I consider myself lucky enough to be alive today to write a comment here. Thanks to all for reading it and please follow my advice. Naren
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