Prashar Lake
Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
Nearby attractions
Hanogi Mata Temple & Pandoh
Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
The cliff goddess of the Beas gorge highway — a ropeway across the river, langur troops and the jade Pandoh dam lake round the bend.
Himachali Dham Food Experience
Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
The festive leaf-plate feast of the hills — madra, sepu vadi, khatta and meetha bhat cooked by hereditary botis in copper degs, eaten cross-legged in rows.
Mandi Town & Bhootnath Temple
Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
The 'Varanasi of the hills' — 81 stone shikhara temples along the Beas, led by 1527 Bhootnath, and a Shivaratri fair where village gods arrive in palanquins.
Bijli Mahadev Temple
Kullu, Himachal Pradesh
The lightning temple on a 2,460-m grass ridge — its staff draws bolts that shatter the lingam, which priests rejoin with butter, above a two-valley panorama.
Kullu Dussehra Festival
Kullu, Himachal Pradesh
The week Dussehra ends elsewhere and begins in Kullu — 300 village gods in palanquins process to Raghunath's chariot on Dhalpur maidan.