LADORI AND THE JABBAR KHAD.
Ladori, a small Himachali Village in Tehsil Nurpur, Distt. Kangra, is situated at approximately tweleve kilometers north of historic town of Nurpur in the foot hills of magestic dhauladhar mountain ranges, which are popularly known as Hathi Dhar and Choti Dhar. While these mountain ranges are scantly but densely covered with khair, scented pine and fragrant cedar forests in the north, a skyline of Himalayan snow capped peaks overlooks the village from far northeastern horizon.
The all weather sweet water Jabbar Khad flows in a zig zag manner on a rocky bed through down deep narrow gorge created by its seasonal gushing currents over the centuries gone by. This khad can be considered as the lifeline of the villages and hamlets situated on its banks.
At Village Ladori, the Khad flows at a stone's throw distance deep downwards from the human habitat. One has to trek up and down carefully on the stony track to and from the rivulet. While passing through the village, one can see that the khad has fondly been nicknamed as Upli Jabbar and the Chikly Jabbar. Upli Jabbar is generally frequented by Pathanias (Mians) as it falls within their easy reach on their side of the village.
During rainy season, Jabbar is swollen to its fullest capacity and bring along with it whatever came its way, be it logs, uprooted trees or for that matter hapless cattle caught unaware in the current. Even being a hilly rivulet, Jabbar Khad has not ever caused much damage to the villages and clusters falling within its reach.
'Atte-da-Bagh', with rare varieties of regional desi mango trees, ponds of crystal clear and refreshing cool water, cascading waterfalls, green foliage all around, playing and chirping of various species of birds, biggest and the smallest being the Mor (Peacock) and Pidu, smallest of the birds found in Ladori, affectionally called in pahari dialect as Piddu, Pida or Pidi, respectively, colorful smartian butterflies playing on wild flowers, a solitary peacock crying at the far end of the Khadyater Meadow, goats and sheep along with their siblings enjoying grazing on ever green thorny 'garna' and 'maliyar' bush leaves.
'Shiv Doala' under an old huge Arjuna Tree, hanuman mandirs and number of huge and centuries old Barr, Plakh and Peepal trees grace the clean and ever fresh environment here.
Chikly Jabbar is mainly visited by both men and women folks of brahmins and others. The eye catching scenery, water falls, springs of warm water, built up bath rooms, sprawling ancient mango groves, lush green hillocks all around, village cattle herds resting under the cool shade of mango trees while village shepherd trying to tune up his improvised flute (Gangojoo), groups of monkeys fly jumping from one tree to another, intermittent barking noise of Kakkar{wild dear}, far away, up in Charoa, a popular place where few local families live from time immemorial, amidst huge mango groves.
In Chikly Jabbar, clean, cool and fresh breeze attract people of all ages to this panoramic spot. Women and children from the other side of Chikly Jabbar, a cluster of hamlets situated straight up on a high ground from the Jabbar Khad at Charoa stretching towards Meharka, another small hamlet of locals, also used to come down here for taking drinking water for themselves and their cattle.
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