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Kerala
Ponmudi is a hill in the Western Ghats in Thiruvananthapuram district, and the Forest Department runs it as an eco-tourism site with a paid entry ticket.
Vagamon is tea gardens, meadow and pine forest on the Kottayam–Idukki border, about 1,100 m up.
Jharkhand
Netarhat is among the highest points of the Chotanagpur plateau, in Latehar district, and it has been called the Queen of Chotanagpur for long enough that the…
Chhattisgarh
A hill station that is also a small village, in Surguja district in the north of the state.
Nagaland
Kiwi, avocado and persimmon are what this town trades in, moved out along National Highway 29, and a fruit economy is a more interesting thing to walk into…
Coal built this town, and the mines are still the first thing anyone mentions about it, which sits oddly beside the local billing of Chhattisgarh's Jannat.
Arunachal Pradesh
The state capital is an administrative town before it is anything else: the legislative assembly, the seat of government, and the Gauhati High Court's…
Meghalaya
The Myntdu river wraps around three sides of the plateau this town sits on, which is the most striking thing about a place that is otherwise a working…
Travelling through Ao country, you will route through Mokokchung whether or not it interests you: this is the district headquarters, the main urban hub, and…
Sikkim
Yumthang Valley, often called the Valley of Flowers of Sikkim, is an alpine meadow at around 3,500 metres in North Sikkim.
Khonoma is a historic Angami Naga village about 20 km from Kohima in Nagaland, celebrated as India's first green village.
Manipur
Ukhrul is the highest hill town in Manipur and the home of the Tangkhul Naga people, set among rolling green hills in the state's northeast.
Mechuka (Menchukha) is a remote, wide-floored valley in the Shi Yomi district of Arunachal Pradesh near the border, ringed by pine-clad mountains at around…
Lachung is a mountain village in North Sikkim at around 2,700 metres, set where the Lachen and Lachung rivers meet amid apple orchards and waterfalls.
Mizoram
Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, is a hill city draped across steep ridges at around 1,100 metres.
Bomdila is a scenic Himalayan hill town in the West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh, perched around 2,400 metres with sweeping views of snow-capped peaks.
Namchi, the district headquarters of South Sikkim, is a hill town famed for its giant religious landmarks.
Pelling is a hill town in western Sikkim known for its close-up views of Kanchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak.
Tamil Nadu
Coonoor is the second-largest of the Nilgiri hill stations in Tamil Nadu, quieter than neighbouring Ooty and wrapped in rolling tea gardens.
Gujarat
The Taranga Hills are a rugged sandstone range in the Satlasana area of Mehsana district, part of the old Aravalli system, with jagged cliffs, scrub and caves.
Shatrunjaya Hill rises above the Shatrunjaya River near Palitana town in Bhavnagar district, and no other mountain in the world carries anything like what…
Pavagadh Hill is a volcanic plateau rising about 822 metres from the plains of the Panchmahal district, at the heart of the UNESCO-listed Champaner-Pavagadh…
The Girnar Hills rise outside Junagadh, an old volcanic range whose highest point, Gorakhnath Peak, reaches 1,031 metres — the highest in Gujarat.
Wilson Hills is a small hill retreat in the Dharampur area of Valsad district, set around 2,500 feet up in the Pangarbari forests — one of the few hill spots…
Don is a hill village deep in the Sahyadris, in the Dang district of South Gujarat.
Saputara is the most built-up of Gujarat's few hill stations — Don, at the same thousand metres, has almost nothing on it — which makes Saputara modest by…
Himachal Pradesh
Old Manali is the laid-back, bohemian counterpart to Manali town — a riverside cluster of guesthouses, cafes and orchards above the Manalsu stream.
Jibhi is a quiet wooden-cottage village in the Banjar (Tirthan) region of Himachal, increasingly loved by young travellers for its forested calm, waterfalls…
Jammu & Kashmir
Gulmarg is a bowl of meadow at 2,650 metres in the Pir Panjal, and it does two completely different jobs depending on the month.
Karnataka
Chikmagalur is the coffee heartland of Karnataka, a lush hill district in the Western Ghats where rolling estates, misty peaks and waterfalls draw a steady…
Gangtok is where most Sikkim trips begin, and its real value is as a base rather than a destination.
Uttarakhand
Kasar Devi is a ridge-top village near Almora in the Kumaon Himalayas, long famous as a counterculture and spiritual retreat with sweeping Himalayan views.
Kausani is a quiet Kumaon hill station famous for its uninterrupted 300-km panorama of the Himalayan peaks — including Trishul, Nanda Devi and Panchachuli.
Maharashtra
Mahabaleshwar sits at 1,353 metres on a broad plateau ridge of the Sahyadri range in Satara district, the highest and most extensive hill resort in…
Patnitop is a plateau at 2,024 metres above the Chenab on the Jammu–Srinagar highway, and almost everyone who stops there was on the way somewhere else.
Kasol is a small riverside village in the Parvati Valley of Himachal Pradesh that has become the unofficial backpacking capital of North India.
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