Best places to visit in June

Leh & Ladakh

Leh

Leh sits at 3,500 metres and the single most important thing about it is that you cannot skip the first two days.

Sunny clear days and chilly mountain nights.

Leh & Ladakh

Magnetic Hill

Magnetic Hill is a famous gravity-defying road stretch on the Srinagar-Leh National Highway, roughly 30 kilometres outside the capital town of Leh.

Bright sunny days with dry highway surfaces.

Himachal Pradesh

Spiti Valley (Kaza)

Spiti is the emptiest place in India that you can still drive to, and the reason to come is the scale of the nothing.

Bright sunny days and crisp cool nights.

Himachal Pradesh

Key Monastery

Key Monastery is a thousand-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monastery belonging to the Gelugpa (Yellow Hat) lineage.

Bright clear days with refreshing valley winds.

Leh & Ladakh

Hemis Monastery

Hemis belongs to the Drukpa (Dragon) lineage of the Kagyu sect, and it is set back in a mountain canyon on the western bank of the Indus, roughly 45…

Warm sunny weather with crisp clear canyon skies.

Leh & Ladakh

Leh-Ladakh

Leh-Ladakh is a high-altitude desert region cradled by the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges in the union territory of Ladakh.

Peak season begins

Leh & Ladakh

Pangong Tso

Pangong Tso is an endorheic lake at roughly 4,225 metres on the Changtang plateau of eastern Ladakh.

Sunny with crisp clear skies and freezing winds.

Jammu & Kashmir

Sonamarg

Sonamarg is eighty kilometres up from Srinagar and the last town before Zoji La and Ladakh.

Comfortably refreshing afternoons with emerald green valley floors.

Jammu & Kashmir

Doodhpathri

Doodhpathri is a meadow about forty kilometres out of Srinagar in Budgam district, with almost nothing built on it — no hotels, a handful of stalls.

Pleasant cool afternoon hours with soft sun rays.

Mount Kailash

Mount Kailash, a 6,638-metre peak in the remote Tibetan plateau, is among the most sacred mountains on earth — revered by Hindus as the abode of Lord Shiva…

Short high-altitude summer window.

Lake Mansarovar

Lake Mansarovar, at 4,590 metres one of the highest freshwater lakes in the world, lies at the foot of Mount Kailash on the Tibetan plateau.

Short high-altitude summer window.

Himachal Pradesh

Manali

Manali is really two places, and knowing which one you booked matters more than anything else about the trip.

Peak summer season, all roads open

Leh & Ladakh

Nubra Valley

Nubra is a three-armed valley north of Leh at an average of nearly 3,048 metres, cut over millennia where the Shyok and the Nubra meet.

Warm sunny days with refreshing mountain winds.

Uttarakhand

Yamunotri

The sacred source of the Yamuna River and the first stop of the Chota Char Dham pilgrimage circuit in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand

Gangotri

The revered birthplace of the holy River Ganga and the second shrine in the Chota Char Dham circuit.

Uttarakhand

Badrinath

A Vishnu temple that anchors both the national Char Dham and the Chota Char Dham circuits.

Uttarakhand

Hemkund Sahib

One of the highest and most revered Sikh shrines in the world, next to a glacial lake surrounded by seven mountain peaks.

Uttarakhand

Chopta (Tungnath)

An offbeat hill station popularly dubbed the 'Mini Switzerland of Uttarakhand', and the base for the trek up to the world's highest Shiva temple.

Uttarakhand

Mussoorie

Famously nicknamed the 'Queen of the Hills', this historic colonial-era hill station looks out over the Doon Valley and Shivalik ranges.

Leh & Ladakh

Tso Moriri

Tso Moriri, or Mountain Lake, is an offbeat high-altitude lake tucked away at an astounding elevation of 4,522 metres on the Changtang plateau of southeastern…

Extremely cold days with melting ice lines on water.

Himachal Pradesh

Chandratal Lake

Chandratal means Lake of the Moon, and the name comes from its crescent shape.

Very cold daytimes with chunks of ice floating on water.