Surinsar Lake
Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Mansar Lake
Samba, Jammu and Kashmir
A forest-ringed sacred lake with the Sheshnag shrine on its shore — newlyweds circle the water for blessings, turtles bask, boats idle.
Purmandal & Utterbehni
Samba, Jammu and Kashmir
'Chhota Kashi' — a temple town on the underground Devika river, whose sands are parted for holy baths where the stream runs unseen.
Amar Mahal Palace Museum
Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir
A French-château palace of red brick above the Tawi — home to a 120-kg solid gold throne, Pahari miniatures and the Dogra dynasty's story.
Bahu Fort & Bagh-e-Bahu
Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir
An ancient Tawi-cliff fort holding the Bawe Wali Mata Kali shrine, ringed by terraced Mughal-style gardens and a big riverside aquarium.
Peer Kho Cave Temple & Ranbireshwar
Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir
A Tawi-bank cave shrine of Shiva linked by legend to Jamwant the bear-king, and the city's great 1883 Ranbireshwar temple of crystal lingams.
Raghunath Temple, Jammu
Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir
The 'city of temples' at its grandest — a seven-shrine 1857 Dogra complex to Rama whose interiors gleam with gold leaf and lakhs of saligram deities.
Mubarak Mandi Palace
Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir
The Dogra maharajas' sprawling 150-year-old court complex — Rajasthani-Mughal-Baroque wings around grand courtyards, slowly being restored, with the Dogra Art Museum.
Krimchi Temples
Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir
The 'Pandava temples' — a 8th–9th-century cluster of tall curvilinear shikharas with Greek-flavoured mouldings, alone in a Udhampur ravine.