Mussoorie

The 'Queen of the Hills' spills down a Himalayan ridge above the Doon valley: a colonial Mall Road, the Camel's Back loop and snow peaks floating on a clear morning. Cool air, easy strolls and one of the north's favourite hill escapes, an hour above Dehradun.

Highlights

Bhadraj Temple

Gun HillPanoramic summit views

Lal TibbaThe highest point

Cloud's EndWhere the trail ends

What to see 35

Bhadraj TempleDetails →

Gun HillPanoramic summit viewsDetails →

Lal TibbaThe highest pointDetails →

Mussoorie Heritage CentreThe one place that explains old Mussoorie, and the source of its properly researched walksDetails →

Christ ChurchThe oldest church in the Himalayas, five minutes uphill from the crowds on Mall RoadDetails →

Kellogg Memorial ChurchA 1903 church that has doubled as a Hindi school for foreigners for over a hundred yearsDetails →

Surkanda Devi TempleA Shakti Peeth at 2,757 m with a ropeway, and the widest Himalayan view within day-trip rangeDetails →

Bhatta FallsKempty's pools without Kempty's crowds, and an easy walk down from the roadDetails →

Jharipani FallsA quiet forest waterfall with a walk-in approach, on the old school-belt side of the hillDetails →

Mossy FallsA moss-lined forest waterfall the Mall Road crowds never findDetails →

Jabarkhet Nature ReserveMarked trails and a naturalist in India's first privately owned nature reserveDetails →

Company Garden (Atal Udyan)Colonial green spacesDetails →

Kempty FallsThe most famous, and the most crowdedDetails →

Landour BazaarHunt old silver and Raj-era curios on a street that has supplied Landour since the 1820sDetails →

Tibetan MarketThe best-value woollens in town, from the Tibetan settlement's own stallsDetails →

Cambridge Book DepotThe Bond shelf in full, with signed copies usually in stock: Mussoorie's book-town heartDetails →

Chander Book DepotThe 1947 newsagent-bookshop locals actually use, with a solid shelf of Mussoorie writersDetails →

LandourThe quiet colonial quarterDetails →

Mall RoadThe heart of tourismDetails →

Mussoorie LibraryA working members' library since 1843, the oldest institution in MussoorieDetails →

Cloud's EndWhere the trail ends

Soham Heritage & Art CentreGarhwal explained in person by the couple who spent twenty years collecting it

Chaar DukanThe informal heart of Landour

St. Paul's Church, LandourThe 1840 cantonment church a few steps from Char Dukan, and almost nobody goes in

Shedup Choepelling Temple, Happy ValleyWhere Tibet-in-exile began in 1959, a working temple most visitors never reach

Eco Park, Dhanaulti (Amber & Dhara)An hour among giant deodars, in the easiest real forest within reach of Mussoorie

Pari Tibba (Witch's Hill)Walk into the landscape of Ruskin Bond's ghost stories, half a day out from Landour

Benog Tibba & Wildlife SanctuaryThe best easy summit walk from town: sanctuary forest, a hilltop shrine and snow peaks

George Everest's HouseA panorama at sunset

A. Prakash & Co. (Prakash's Store)A 1928 provisions store where Landour's jams, chutneys and cheese are still made in-house

Bhatia Wooden HandicraftsDependable carved-wood souvenirs of the hills: sticks, bowls and boxes, all ready to travel

Chaudhary Shoe MakersHill boots cut to measure by a cobbler family more than a century in the trade

Sabri Bought & SoldA Ruskin Bond-named cabinet of Raj-era leftovers, the opposite of a souvenir stall

Camel's Back RoadA three-kilometer ridge walk

Corn Village of SainjiThe golden village

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