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7 Things to Do in Chitkul, India's Last Village Before the Tibet Border

Chitkul, at around 3,450 metres in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district, is the last inhabited village on the Indian side of the Indo-Tibet border road, set along the Baspa River and reached roughly 250 kilometres from Shimla.

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7 Things to Do at Chilika Lake, Asia's Largest Brackish Water Lagoon

Chilika Lake in Odisha, Asia's largest brackish water lagoon and a Ramsar-listed wetland, pairs Irrawaddy dolphin sightings with island temples, migratory bird colonies and fishing villages, all within a couple of hours of Bhubaneswar and Puri.

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7 Things to Do in Gulmarg, Home to One of the World's Highest Cable Cars

Gulmarg, a former royal summer meadow in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, is built around the Gulmarg Gondola, Asia's highest cable car, and switches between a winter ski resort and a green-meadow hill station within the same calendar year.

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7 Things to Do in Lansdowne, the Himalayan Cantonment Tourism Forgot

Lansdowne, a Garhwal Rifles cantonment town in Uttarakhand founded in 1887, has stayed largely free of the commercial sprawl that has reshaped nearby hill stations, thanks to the building restrictions that come with still being an active military station.

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7 Things to Do in Kausani, the Himalayan Town Gandhi Compared to Switzerland

Kausani, a ridge-top town in Uttarakhand’s Kumaon hills, is built almost entirely around one thing: an uninterrupted panorama of the Himalayas, from Trishul and Nanda Devi to the Panchchuli peaks.

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7 Things to Do in Mawlynnong, Asia’s Cleanest Village

A Khasi village in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills, Mawlynnong has been called Asia’s cleanest village since 2003, and pairs its bamboo-dustbin cleanliness system with a living root bridge, a bamboo skywalk and the clear waters of the Umngot River nearby.

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7 Things to Do in Bandhavgarh, India's Highest-Density Tiger Reserve

A former hunting ground of the Rewa royal family in Madhya Pradesh, Bandhavgarh has one of India's highest densities of Bengal tigers, a hilltop fort dotted with ancient rock-cut caves, and the origin story of the world's captive white tigers.

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7 Things to Do in Chopta, Uttarakhand's Miniature Alpine Meadow

A cluster of high-altitude meadows in the Garhwal Himalayas, Chopta is the base for the world's highest Shiva temple, a sunrise summit trek and one of Uttarakhand's most photographed alpine lakes.

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7 Things to Do in Kalimpong, the Hill Town Darjeeling's Fame Passed By

A former Himalayan trade post turned mission-school town, Kalimpong pairs Kanchenjunga views with a cluster of Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and a noticeably slower pace than its more famous neighbour.

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7 Things to Do in Cherrapunji, One of the Wettest Places on Earth

Also known by its older Khasi name, Sohra, this Meghalaya hill town is built around record monsoon rainfall, living root bridges grown by hand over decades, and some of India's tallest waterfalls.

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7 Things to Do in Kasol, the Parvati Valley's Backpacker Capital

Set along the Parvati River in Himachal Pradesh, Kasol has grown from a sleepy riverside hamlet into the trekking and cafe-hopping base for the entire valley, without losing the mountains around it.

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7 Things to Do in Turtuk, India's Last Village Before the Line of Control

Captured from Pakistan in 1971 and closed to outsiders until 2010, Turtuk remains Ladakh's only Balti-populated village and one of its least commercialised corners.