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Uttarakhand travel guides
32 complete guides covering 373 places in Uttarakhand, with honest pacing, maps, sources and advice for travelling with parents.
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- Almora12 placesA ridge-top Kumaoni town of stone temples, narrow bazaars and Himalayan…
- Auli20 placesHimalayan slopes crowned by Nanda Devi, winter skies and summer meadows: a…
- Badrinath19 placesHigh-altitude pilgrimage in the Himalayas: a small town devoted to the…
- Bageshwar9 placesA Kumaon temple town at the Saryu–Gomti confluence around the Bagnath Temple…
- Bhimtal11 placesA broad, quiet lake at about 1,370 m, with an island, a 17th-century Shiva…
- Binsar11 placesOak and rhododendron forest on a quiet Kumaon ridge, with long Himalayan views…
- Chakrata8 placesA quiet cantonment hill town among deodar forest, high meadows and old temples…
- Chaukori7 placesA quiet ridge-top village at about 2,000 m, with tea terraces, pine forest and…
- Chopta8 placesA small ridge-top meadow in the Garhwal hills, the base for Tungnath and…
- Dehradun12 placesA green valley city of colonial institutions, Tibetan shrines and foothill…
- Dhanaulti5 placesA small ridge-top village of deodar and oak at about 2,300 metres: forest…
- Gangotri12 placesA small white temple at about 3,100 metres where the Bhagirathi runs loud and…
- Haridwar17 placesGolden ghats, evening aarti lights, pilgrims in prayer and the roar of a young…
- Hemkund Sahib10 placesA Sikh gurdwara beside a glacial lake high in the Garhwal Himalaya, reached by…
- Jim Corbett15 placesIndia's oldest national park, famed for tiger safaris through teak forests…
- Joshimath7 placesA pilgrim town on the road to Badrinath, with temple traditions that go back…
- Kanatal5 placesA small ridge village of oak forest and apple country, kept for quiet days…
- Kausani11 placesA pine-covered ridge at about 1,890 m with a long, quiet view of the Kumaon…
- Kedarnath19 placesHigh-altitude pilgrimage to a sacred Shiva temple, wrapped in Himalayan peaks…
- Lohaghat10 placesA small Kumaon hill town on the Lohawati river, used as a quiet base for…
- Lohajung7 placesA small roadhead village in Chamoli's Pindar country, the start of the Roopkund…
- Mukteshwar9 placesA quiet Kumaon ridge at over 2,000 metres: a Shiva temple, a colonial-era…
- Munsiyari12 placesA small Himalayan outpost at about 2,200 m, facing the five summits of…
- Mussoorie21 placesA colonial hill station clinging to the Himalayan foothills, where Mall Road…
- Nainital20 placesA glassy lake ringed by pine hills, where the Mall Road hums with quiet…
- Pithoragarh11 placesA quiet Kumaon valley town under Panchachuli light: small Shiva shrines on the…
- Ranikhet12 placesPine ridges, army meadows and a Himalayan skyline: a small cantonment town for…
- Rishikesh17 placesSacred Ganga ghats, yoga ashrams in the foothills, and a rhythm that slows to…
- Sankri8 placesA small wooden village where the road ends and the forest begins: the gateway…
- Uttarkashi10 placesA Bhagirathi river town with a Shiva temple, a mountaineering school and trails…
- Valley of Flowers8 placesA short, high, monsoon-fed season of alpine wildflowers, reached on foot from…
- Yamunotri10 placesA small shrine to the goddess Yamuna at the head of her valley, reached only on…