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Uttarakhand
Permits for the Gunji route are issued at Dharchula, and the medical check-up happens there too, so plan around that desk rather than around the mountain.
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.
Half a kilometre of concrete and twenty-five floodgates across the Yamuna, with a foundation stone Nehru laid in 1949.
Uttarakhand's capital sits in the Doon Valley with the Shivalik Range to the south and the outer Himalayan ranges to the north, and its weather follows suit…
Devprayag is the most sacred of the Panch Prayag — the five holy confluences of Uttarakhand — where the Alaknanda and Bhagirathi rivers merge to form the…
Walk out of Gangotri town and the trail runs 18 km to Gomukh, where the glacier ends in a snout the shape of a cow's mouth — hence the name — and the…
The ring of peaks around the Gangotri Glacier is a climbers' arena first.
Ghorakhal means the pond where horses were watered, a fair account of what this shoulder of hill above Bhowali was before anyone came for the view.
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.
Skeleton Lake earns the name. Hundreds of human bones lie at the edge of this small tarn at 5,020 m, and when the snow melts you can see them on the bottom…
