The "Queen of the Hill Stations", once the summer playground of the Raj and now the capital of Himachal Pradesh, sits at 2,213 metres above sea level, right on the edge of the Himalayas. Surrounded by forests of oak, deodar, pine and rhododendron, the town has an interesting core of Victorian buildings around the Mall and the Promenade, though with many visitors and a lot of building in recent years, it is no longer the cosy little town it used to be. The famous, much-loved "toy train", which runs on a narrow-gauge railway built in the 1920s, comes up from Kalka, passing through over a hundred tunnels and stopping at numerous pretty little stations on the way.