🛕 Religious🥾 Trekking🌄 Viewpoint

Bijli Mahadev Temple

Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India

4.6 (0)

Overview

The lightning temple on a 2,460-m grass ridge — its staff draws bolts that shatter the lingam, which priests rejoin with butter, above a two-valley panorama.

Why visit: Himachal's most electrifying legend and the best view over Kullu's confluence.

Things to do

›3-km deodar climb
›Butter-lingam lore
›Parvati-Beas confluence view
›Ridge meadows

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Travel Information

Best time

Apr–Nov

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹300–800

Duration

Half day

Nearby attractions

Within

8.9 km

📍 Cultural

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Kullu Dussehra Festival

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The week Dussehra ends elsewhere and begins in Kullu — 300 village gods in palanquins process to Raghunath's chariot on Dhalpur maidan.

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🏞️ Lake

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Prashar Lake

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A floating-island lake at 2,730 m beside sage Parashar's three-tiered pagoda — Dhauladhar's white line on the horizon, meadows for tents.

Mar–Jun & Sep–Nov (snow walks Dec–Feb)1–2 daysExplore

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🍲 Local Experience

4.5

Kasol & Chalal

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The Parvati's pine-bank backpacker capital — Israeli cafés, riverside raves gone mellow, and the forest footpath to Chalal's slower lanes.

Mar–Jun & Sep–Dec2–3 daysExplore

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4.4

Malana Village

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The self-governing village of Jamlu devta — its own parliament, its own rules of touch, and lanes that watched empires come and go.

Apr–Jun & Sep–NovFull dayExplore

21.9 km

🛕 Religious

4.5

Manikaran Sahib

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Boiling springs steaming through a gurudwara-temple town — langar rice cooked in the earth's own kettles beside the roaring Parvati.

Year-roundHalf dayExplore

23.8 km

📍 Heritage

4.5

Naggar Castle & Roerich Estate

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The Kullu kings' 1460 timber-bonded castle over the Beas, up the lane from Nicholas Roerich's painting-filled homestead and gallery.

Year-roundHalf dayExplore