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This Lake District of India ‘Nainital’ is in the State of Uttaranchal, India. Known for its salubrious climate and scenic beauty, the town is a popular health resort and attracts national as well as international tourists around the year. The town is rich in scenic setting, service infrastructure and landscape perspectives where people from other parts of the country and even outside go for stay and excursions around the year.

Nainital is situated at a height of 1938 meters above sea level in the Kumaon foothills of the outer Himalayas of Uttarakhand. The temperature here is pretty cool with the maximum temperature in the summers being 27 degrees Celsius while the minimum is 10 degrees Celsius. In the winters the temperature could go up to 15 degrees Celsius and as far down as -3 degrees Celsius. Nainital receives snowfall between the months of December and February. The peak season here is from December to January and from March to June.

The ancient name of this region was Khasdesh. Nainital has also been mentioned in the Puranas. Nainital has been dubbed Tri-Rishi-Sarovar. There is reference to three sages, Atri, Pulastya and Pulaha who excavated a massive hole as they could not find water at this locale. They then rerouted water from the holy lake Mansarover in Tibet to fill this hole. If the myth is to be believed then bathing in the Naini Lake is as good as bathing in the great Mansarovar. On the other hand, there is a credo that Lord Shiva’s wife Sati leapt into the flames of the sacred bonfire, and Shiva carried her remains back to Kailash Parvat. There were 64 places where appendages of her body dropped. It is believed that this is the spot where her emerald green eye fell. Thus it came to be called the Naini-tal. Nain means eye while tal means lake.

The first European to be attracted to the landscape of Nainital was a merchant from Rosa near Shahjahanpur. Mr. P. Barron established Nainital in the year 1841. He was so moved by the beauty of the lake, he wrote that it was by far the best site he had witnessed in the course of a 1500 mile trek in the Himalayas. It had secured the soubriquet of Lake District of India. Soon, the British and colonial bureaucrats and their families who were trying to escape the heat of the plains became partial to this town as a health resort.

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