shimla was once known as the queen of all hill stations.se gardens, afternoon tea. >> my grandfather, it was very difficult to describe. what did he do, quite frankly, nothing. but he entertained hugely. >> garden parties, fancy dress balls, elephant hunts. ♪ the remnants of british rule can still be seen. and felt. this is particularly true of one house. chapsley. >> my family was very fortunate that they were able to buy this house, because it was a famous house. >> the house was purchased by reggie's grandfather, the last maharajah. of kapourthala. those brits really left beautiful buildings. >> from a distance, it looks much the same as it must have when the maharajah slept here. check out the tub. ♪ >> locked in a constant battle against time and nature, barbed wire does little to keep shimla's ever encroaching monkey population at bay. ♪ stripped of their wealth and their kingdoms, the one-time royals all across india have had to either sell their estates or like reggie, turn them into hotels and guest houses in order to hold on. ring

shimla was once known as the queen of all hill stations.hitecture, rose gardens, afternoon tea. >> my grandfather, it was very difficult to describe. what did he do, quite frankly, nothing. but he entertained hugely. >> garden parties, fancy dress balls, elephant hunts. ♪ the remnants of british rule can still be seen. and felt. this is particularly true of one house. chapslee. >> my family was very fortunate that they were able to buy this house, because it was a famous house. >> the house was purchased by reggie's grandfather, the last maharajah of kapurthala. those brits really left beautiful buildings. >> from a distance, it looks much the same as it must have when the maharajah slept here. check out the tub. ♪ >> locked in a constant battle against time and nature, barbed wire does little to keep shimla's ever encroaching monkey population at bay. ♪ stripped of their wealth and their kingdoms, the one-time royals all across india have had to either sell their estates or like reggie, turn them into hotels and guest houses in order to ho

>> i have been to many places where it reminded me of what shimla had been when the british first camei feel. >> fond memories of british rule, maybe not what you would expect to hear. but kanwar ratanjit singh, reggie for short, his family was different. indian royalty with palaces, the 1% of the 1%. so life for reggie as a young boy was relative to the millions and millions of others his age, enchanted. ♪ shimla is from a time before partition, when nearly the entire ruling class of british india would move to hill stations in the hotter months. ♪ shimla was once known as the queen of all hill stations. here, the colonials created england in miniature. complete with tudor architecture, rose gardens, afternoon tea. >> my grandfather, it was very difficult to describe. what did he do, quite frankly, nothing. but he entertained hugely. >> garden parties, fancy dress balls, elephant hunts. ♪ the remnants of british rule can still be seen. and felt. this is particularly true of one house. chapslee. >> my family was very fortunate that they were able to buy this house, because it was a fam

looking at india through one house, a house with a lot of history in the former british hill station of shimlarnment and management class would all move during the hotter months, all the way up through the foothills of the himalayas where they restruktdconstructed a tud with nostalgia. the thing that struck me about the place were the colors, which are just gorgeous, just a photographer's dream. the food, a place where even i, a confirmed carnivore, was happy to eat vegetarian for a period of time. what is happening there is affecting so many regions and our policies. >> i was going to ask you what is your favorite country to be a vegetarian -- >> i think you have the answer. for me eating vegetarian in new york is a misery. in india, it's a delight. >> if you had to choose a country where it is the worst place to be a vegetarian. >> argentina or uruguay. you're not finding many vegetarians. i think they eat them. >> and germany, i noticed, it's all meat. >> pretty much. >> tony bourdain, pleasure to have you on. >> thanks, fareed. >>> coming up next, the only country in the world where americ