Corbett Falls
Ramnagar, Uttarakhand, India
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Kaladhungi Corbett Museum
Ramnagar, Uttarakhand
Jim Corbett's winter home turned museum — rifles, letters and the world of the hunter who became the tiger's greatest protector.
Khurpatal
Nainital, Uttarakhand
An emerald crater-like lake 1,000 ft below Nainital whose waters shift colour with the algae and sky — ringed by terraced fields.
Nainital
Nainital, Uttarakhand
A jade eye of a lake cupped by seven wooded hills — the classic Kumaon hill station of yacht-club sails, Mall Road bustle, the Naina Devi Shakti Peetha and ropeway views that stretch, on clear days, to the snows of Nanda Devi.
Pangot
Nainital, Uttarakhand
A birding hamlet beyond Nainital's Kilbury forest where 350 species — koklass, cheer pheasant, lammergeier — cross a single valley.
Sattal
Nainital, Uttarakhand
Seven interlinked oak-forest lakes that form one of India's richest birding hotspots — 500+ species in a subtropical dell.
Kainchi Dham
Nainital, Uttarakhand
Neem Karoli Baba's riverside ashram in a hairpin valley — the shrine that drew Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Julia Roberts to Kumaon.
Bhimtal
Bhimtal, Uttarakhand
Kumaon's largest lake, named for Bhima's mace-strike — an island aquarium at its centre and a 17th-century temple on the dam.
Naukuchiatal
Nainital, Uttarakhand
The nine-cornered lake, deepest in Kumaon — legend grants a wish to anyone who sees all nine corners at once.
Ramgarh Kumaon
Nainital, Uttarakhand
The 'fruit bowl of Kumaon' where Tagore drafted Gitanjali verses — peach, plum and apple terraces under a quiet snow horizon.
Garjiya Devi Temple
Ramnagar, Uttarakhand
A goddess shrine crowning a lone rock tower in the Kosi river beside Corbett's forests, thronged on Kartik Purnima.