Khajjiar

Why this icon A small lake in a saucer-shaped meadow ringed by deodars. Source: en.wikipedia.org

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The story

A sunny afternoon at Khajjiar: a traveller rides a saddled pony round the rim of the great green saucer, the pony-man walking behind, the little lake and its island in the bowl below and tall deodars standing all round.

Why this picture

Khajjiar, about 24 km from Dalhousie at some 2,000 m, is a near-round meadow dished like a saucer on a small plateau, with a small, shrinking lake and a floating island of weeds at its centre and a wall of tall deodars all round its rim, in the deodar, blue pine and oak forest of the Chamba hills. Saddled ponies wait at the meadow's edge to carry visitors round it.

The sky wears Gond scales, from Madhya Pradesh.

The motion

Clouds sail across the whole sky; the sun's rays turn; the tall deodars sway; the pony walks and the pony-man walks behind it; another pony grazes; flowers glint in the grass. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Mustard Leaf #E2E418

Jade #04B495

Paddy Green #B2D234

Khajjiar takes Jade #04B495, one of the three Fields colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Khajjiar

A second scene: another true moment at Khajjiar, drawn in the graphic vocabulary with the animals and city symbols that belong there. Wide for screens, tall for a phone held upright.

The story

An autumn dawn at Khajjiar: before the day's visitors arrive, a rhesus macaque and her young walk the wooden fence at the saucer's rim, and beyond them a traveller photographs the sun coming up over the deodar ring, the little lake and its island below and a pony grazing alone by the water.

Why this moment

Khajjiar's meadow, about 2,000 m up and 24 km from Dalhousie, is a near-round saucer with a small lake and a floating island at its centre, ringed by deodars of the Kalatop–Khajjiar sanctuary. Rhesus macaques sit on the meadow's fence rails, saddled ponies wait there for riders through the day, and autumn (October to November) brings clear, quiet mornings before the snow.

The motion

Birds cross the whole sky; the sun's fan of rays turns; the deodars sway; the young macaque looks round; the pony grazes. A 16-second loop.

In the picture

Its files

wide: wide second scene, SVG wide second scene, Animated SVG wide second scene, PNG
tall: tall second scene, SVG tall second scene, Animated SVG tall second scene, PNG

Also in the kit's zip, in its own folder.

Khajjiar in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Khajjiar, drawn in the Brand Manual's city language: a monument in the city grey with its openings cut, the things of the place in flat landscape colours. Each comes in colour and in the city grey. Every place's symbols

A saddled ponyOf the place
The saddled ponies of Khajjiar, waiting at the meadow's edge to carry visitors round the saucer and its little lake.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Chamba rumal (its floral border)Of the place
The Chamba rumal: a square of fine muslin embroidered in untwisted silk with the double satin stitch (do-rukha), the same on both faces, finished with a border on all four sides — Chamba's own craft, here its flowering border only, no figures.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Khajjiar 4

Detailed icons from the library that name Khajjiar among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Those drawn for Khajjiar alone come first. Every detailed icon

Say hello to Khajjiar's Zobus

Zobu in Khajjiar's own dress, on the palette. Hover or tap one and it waves. Each comes still and alive — idle, hello and hop — for stickers, stories and the app.

Every destination's Zobus →

Female
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave
Male
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave

The animals of Khajjiar

Animals and birds the research behind Khajjiar's picture names, drawn in the Brand Manual's animal style, in colour and in the city grey. All the animals of India

Rhesus macaqueMacaca mulatta
SVG Grey SVG PNG

The kit

Everything Khajjiar needs: its profile, its cover, wide and tall, its icon, tile, display picture and lockup, its loop and the symbol becoming it, its second scene, its city map, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

46 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols, its Zobus and its city map included

Profile

Khajjiar’s page as a story, 1080 × 1920: its cover, its tile, its name, its line and its verbs — for stories, status and a phone’s lock screen.

SVGOther formats

Cover, wide

1600 × 900, for screens: a page’s top, a slide, a share card. The still is the loop’s first frame. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Cover, tall

900 × 1600, composed for a phone held upright: stories, reels, a lock screen. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Tile

The icon in one colour on Khajjiar’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG

Icon

An object: flat landscape colours. Transparent; the mono takes any one colour.

SVG PNG Mono SVG

Loop

A breeze sways the field stalks at its base. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVG Lottie JSON

Motion

The symbol becomes Khajjiar and turns back — a Lottie loop for stories, the app and the web.

Lottie JSON

Display picture

Circle-safe: the colour, the icon and the name — for chats, socials and the app.

SVG PNG

Lockup

The horizontal lockup, with Khajjiar under the wordmark — for signage, email and merch.

SVG

City symbols

Khajjiar’s symbols, each in colour and in the city grey, as SVG and PNG — in the zip’s symbols folder.

See them with their files

Zobus

Khajjiar’s Zobu pair, still and alive (idle, hello, hop), waving still and as a face (a profile picture) — in the zip’s zobus folder.

Female SVG Male SVG

Also made for Khajjiar 5

The rest of what the library holds for Khajjiar: the pattern of its region, the card its links share, each opening its own file or gallery.

The map we made for Khajjiar

Eight things to do around Zostel Homes Khajjiar, each in its true direction with its distance and time from the door — a map made for your phone.

Shop for a Chamba rumalChamba · 22.9 km · 55 min drive
Walk to the carved wooden templeKhajji Nag temple · 0.7 km · 9 min walk
Sip chai at a meadow dhabaMeadow dhabas · 0.5 km · 7 min walk
Ride a pony round the meadowKhajjiar meadow · 0.8 km · 10 min walk
Climb Dainkund, the singing hillDainkund Peak · 7.8 km · 9 min drive
Walk the five bridges of PanchpulaPanchpula · 22.1 km · 60 min drive
See Dalhousie's old stone churchesDalhousie · 19.6 km · 60 min drive
Hike the deodar trail to KalatopKalatop · 11.5 km · 300 min hike

Download the phone map (PNG)Download the phone map (SVG)

1080 × 1350, for a phone or a story. Distances and times from Zostel Homes Khajjiar, measured on OpenStreetMap routing. Map for representation purposes only.

On the map

Khajjiar is in Himachal Pradesh, India — one of the 84 places where Zostel is live.

Region: Himachal Pradesh
Country: India
Where: 32.55° N, 76.06° E
Landscape: Fields

Make its poster Every place

Khajjiar · Himachal Pradesh · India

Lie back in the green saucer. Deodars all round, a lake inside.

The story

Why this picture

The motion

Colour

Another moment in Khajjiar

The story

Why this moment

The motion

In the picture

Its files

Khajjiar in symbols

Also drawn for Khajjiar 4

Say hello to Khajjiar's Zobus

The animals of Khajjiar

The kit

Also made for Khajjiar 5

The map we made for Khajjiar

On the map