The old trees of Company Bagh shade a Mughal-era pleasure garden that East India Company botanists later turned into a plant laboratory. Nearby, carvers chisel vines and flowers into wooden screens, the craft behind the name Wood Carving City. Even the soil has surprises. At Hulas, south of town, digs found a late Harappan farming village.
The lanes of Nakhasa Bazar keep the shape of the old walled city, and the road north climbs into the Shivalik hills toward Shakumbhari Devi. Summers are hot, monsoon rains fall from June to September, and winter mornings often start in fog. A Local Friend can pull up a chair for you at a table you would never have found.
