Kalpeshwar Temple
Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India
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Rudranath Temple
Chamoli, Uttarakhand
The hardest-won Panch Kedar — Shiva's face in a natural rock cave shrine amid rhododendron meadows at 11,800 ft, trekked via Sagar village.
Joshimath
Joshimath, Uttarakhand
Adi Shankaracharya's winter seat of Badrinath — the Jyotirmath of the north, with the sage's cave, the Kalpavriksha mulberry and Narsingh temple.
Auli
Joshimath, Uttarakhand
India's premier ski bowl at 9,500–10,500 ft, its meadows staring point-blank at Nanda Devi — reached by Asia's longest ropeway from Joshimath.
Gorson Bugyal
Joshimath, Uttarakhand
The alpine meadow shelf above Auli at 11,000 ft — a 3-km oak-forest climb opening onto grass oceans beneath Nanda Devi and Dronagiri.
Chandrashila Summit
Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand
The 'moon rock' summit (13,123 ft) above Tungnath — a sunrise throne facing Nanda Devi, Trishul, Chaukhamba and Kedarnath at once.
Tungnath Temple
Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand
The world's highest Shiva temple (12,073 ft), a thousand-year-old stone shrine on the Chandrashila slope where Shiva's arms emerged.
Madhyamaheshwar Temple
Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand
The second Panch Kedar, where Shiva's navel is worshipped in a lonely meadow shrine below Chaukhamba, reached by a 16-km forest trek.
Chopta
Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand
The 'Mini Switzerland of Uttarakhand' — velvet meadows at 8,700 ft ringed by deodar and rhododendron, base for Tungnath–Chandrashila.
Badrinath Temple
Badrinath, Uttarakhand
The northern seat of Vishnu at 10,170 ft between the Nar and Narayana peaks — the crown of the Char Dham, framed by Neelkanth's pyramid.