Category: Nainital / Kumaon, Uttarakhand

The Kumaon hills are Uttarakhand’s most quietly extraordinary landscape — a region of oak and rhododendron forests, terraced farmlands, ancient temples, and some of the finest Himalayan views available from any inhabited place in India. Less crowded than the Garhwal and more varied than the plains, Kumaon rewards those who come slowly: the hill stations of Nainital and Mukteshwar, the wildlife of Binsar, the pilgrimage circuit of Jageshwar, and the villages where life still moves at the pace the mountains set. Come for the peaks. Stay for the forest, the food, and the people who know it.