📍 Valley📍 Fort🌄 Viewpoint

Pithoragarh

Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, India

4.2 (0)

Overview

The 'Soar valley' district capital ringed by four hills — a Gorkha fort, Kailash-Mansarovar's road head and Nepal across the Kali.

Why visit: Little Kashmir's own valley bowl, gateway to Adi Kailash.

Things to do

›Pithoragarh fort
›Chandak hill viewpoint
›Kapileshwar cave temple

SightseeingHeritage Walk

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Jun

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹800–1,500

Duration

1 day

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Within

14.9 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Cave

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Patal Bhuvaneshwar

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A limestone underworld 90 ft down where stalactites are worshipped as Sheshnag, Kal Bhairav and all 33 crore gods — the Skanda Purana's cave.

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💎 Hidden Gem📍 Heritage

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Abbott Mount

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A time-capsule English hamlet of 13 colonial cottages, a 1942 church and a cricket pitch in the clouds at 6,400 ft.

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🏞️ Lake

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Khaptad Lake

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Lake in Nepal. It sits in Nepal's hill country, at its clearest either side of the monsoon — October to November and March to April.

October – November (mirror reflections of the peaks) & March – MayHalf dayExplore

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💎 Hidden Gem⛰️ Hill Station

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Lohaghat

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A deodar town on the Lohawati river near the haunted Abbott Mount and Advaita's Mayawati Ashram — old Kumaon at its gentlest.

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