Shoppers' stop.

This is a great little place for souvenir-hunters: the Tibetan shop. It's located at the foot of the Mall, in Willow Banks.

They stock all sorts of things. Hand-knitted woollen socks, gloves and scarves; chakras and vajras and other assorted decorations used in Buddhist temples and places of worship; lovely hand-embroidered wall-hangings with traditional Tibetan patterns: the interlocking key, the trumpet shell, the pearl on fire, ocean waves and, of course, dragons; carpets in rich deep colours and bags of little and big sizes, from handy ones for carrying a cellphone to large ones which can hold sleeping bags and best of all, lovely silver jewellery. This is also posibly the only place in Shimla which stocks CDs of Nawang Khechog's music.
I wasn't able to persuade my gorgeous friend Rinzen to pose for a picture. His sweet-talking and wild locks force many a female buyer into spending far more than she intended! The man in the picture below is a distant cousin (and no patch on R).

Below, Mr. D (Rinzen's father) takes a prayer-break.