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Himachal Pradesh
Bir Billing is India's paragliding capital and one of the best free-flight sites in the world, set against the Dhauladhar range in Himachal Pradesh.
Chandratal means Lake of the Moon, and the name comes from its crescent shape.
The Great Himalayan National Park was listed by UNESCO in 2014, and what makes it worth the effort is what it does not have: no road crosses it, nothing is…
Jibhi is a quiet wooden-cottage village in the Banjar (Tirthan) region of Himachal, increasingly loved by young travellers for its forested calm, waterfalls…
Kalpa is an offbeat mountain village on a high ridge at an elevation of 2,960 metres in the Kinnaur Valley.
Kasol is a small riverside village in the Parvati Valley of Himachal Pradesh that has become the unofficial backpacking capital of North India.
Key Monastery is a thousand-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monastery belonging to the Gelugpa (Yellow Hat) lineage.
Khajjiar is a high plateau meadow at an elevation of 1,920 metres inside the Kalatop Khajjiar Sanctuary perimeter.
A 167-metre wall of rockfill holds back the Sutlej at Salaper, on the boundary between Bilaspur and Mandi districts, with the power house sitting right at the…
Timber, not tourism, is what this Kullu-district valley has run on for a hundred and fifty years — the Himalayan region's main forest contractors still come…
Nobody has climbed it. The 5,653-metre peak is the fifth of the five Kailash mountains, held to be Shiva's own, and no mountaineer has yet reached the top, so…
Carved out of solid rock in the early 8th century, and never finished.
Three faiths hold the same small lake sacred — Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist — 22.5 km south-west of Mandi at about 1,360 metres.
Spiti is the emptiest place in India that you can still drive to, and the reason to come is the scale of the nothing.
Tirthan Valley is a quiet, offbeat river valley on the edge of the Great Himalayan National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) in Himachal Pradesh.
Tosh is a tiny, car-free hamlet at the far end of the Parvati Valley, a steep climb above Barshaini.
