Mukteshwar
Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
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Ramgarh Kumaon
Nainital, Uttarakhand
The 'fruit bowl of Kumaon' where Tagore drafted Gitanjali verses — peach, plum and apple terraces under a quiet snow horizon.
Almora
Almora, Uttarakhand
The 16th-century Chand capital draped along a horseshoe ridge — copperware bazaars, bal mithai and Himalayan views Vivekananda loved.
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.
Sattal
Nainital, Uttarakhand
Seven interlinked oak-forest lakes that form one of India's richest birding hotspots — 500+ species in a subtropical dell.
Naukuchiatal
Nainital, Uttarakhand
The nine-cornered lake, deepest in Kumaon — legend grants a wish to anyone who sees all nine corners at once.
Kasar Devi
Almora, Uttarakhand
A 2nd-century ridge temple on a Van Allen-belt 'energy spot' that drew Vivekananda, Nyerere-era hippies, Ginsberg and D.H. Lawrence.
Katarmal Sun Temple
Almora, Uttarakhand
The second-most important sun temple in India after Konark — a 9th-century Katyuri masterpiece of 45 shrines facing the rising sun.
Chitai Golu Devta Temple
Almora, Uttarakhand
The court of Kumaon's god of justice, hung with a million brass bells and stamped-paper petitions — hear your case, tie your bell.
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.
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.