Kangra Fort
Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India
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Masroor Rock-Cut Temples
Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
The Himalaya's Ellora — fifteen 8th-century shikharas carved downward from one sandstone ridge, reflected in a bathing tank with Dhauladhar behind.
Norbulingka Institute
Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh
Tibetan arts kept alive in a Japanese-styled garden campus — thangka painters, wood-carvers and appliqué masters at work, with a gilded temple at the centre.
Chamunda Devi Temple
Palampur, Himachal Pradesh
The wrathful goddess on the Baner's boulder bank — bathing ghats, a Shiva cave behind the sanctum and Dhauladhar rising sheer beyond.
McLeodganj & Tsuglagkhang (Dalai Lama Temple)
Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh
Little Lhasa — the Dalai Lama's temple complex, debating monks, the Tibet Museum and momo lanes under Dhauladhar's sudden white wall.
Dharamkot & Gallu Devi
Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh
The yoga-and-coder village above McLeod — slow cafés in oak shade, Vipassana and Tushita retreats, and the Gallu gate of the Triund trail.
Bhagsu Waterfall & Bhagsunag
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The snake-god's ancient tank and the shale-cliff waterfall above — via a lane of shlokas, slate cafés and the famous Bhagsu-cake bakeries.
Pong Dam Wetland & Ransar Island
Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
A Ramsar reservoir where a hundred thousand winter birds — bar-headed geese to pelicans — raft on the drowned Beas, with island camps and water sports.
Triund Trek
McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh
The Himalaya's perfect starter trek — a 7-km forest climb from McLeod Ganj to a grassy ridge where the Dhauladhar wall erupts 3,000 m overhead; sunset turns the granite pink and campfires dot the meadow under a blaze of stars.
Brajeshwari Devi & Jwalamukhi Temples
Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
Two shaktipeeths of the Kangra plain — the rebuilt wealth-temple of Nagarkot and the eternal natural flames of Jwalamukhi that burn from bare rock.