What are the less commercialized hill stations near rishikesh with nice scenic beauty?

Why the hill stations are cool? Actully hills are near to sun. so it should be hot but hills are not like that

• why the hill stations are cool? Actully hills are near to sun compare then normal place. so sun rays reach fastly to hills, so that should be hot, but hills are cool Why?

• Answer:

  You must have noticed that as you are higher in elevation, it gets colder, not warmer, even though you are closer to the sun. That is why there is snow on mountaintops and the temperature is around -50 up where airplanes fly. Space is very cold. It is not warmer than earth's atmosphere in empty space close to the sun. The reason is that the heat that warms the earth's atmosphere comes only indirectly from the sun. The heat actually comes from the earth, but it comes from the earth as a result of the sun's radiation. The photons that the sun bombards the earth with all day cause the earth to radiate infrared radiation. This infrared radiation is trapped by our atmosphere, and warms the planet. This is why scientists are so concerned with greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide causing global warming. More carbon dioxide in the air will cause more of the infrared radiation to be trapped, causing the planet to warm further. The same thing is what happens in a car left in the sun during the summer. Infrared radiation emitted by the car's interior as a result of bombardment by photons from the sun have a very hard time penetrating glass, so the radiation is trapped in the car and warms it up. Greenhouses operate in the same fashion, hence the name "greenhouse gases".