VANAMCOVE ❄️ Snow & Cold weekends
High-altitude chill, mist and the rare snow weekend.
The weekend you'll talk about all week is closer than you think.
BR Hills
A 1,200 m ridge of shola forest and grassland in the Biligiriranga Swamy Temple Tiger Reserve — the only sanct…
Bhandardara
Arthur Lake, Randha Falls and the Ramgad fort in a forested valley at the foot of the Kalsubai range — one of …
Bir Billing
The paragliding capital of India: launch at 2,400 m from Billing, glide for 20 minutes down to Bir's landing f…
Kasauli
Shimla's quieter cousin: a pedestrian-only cantonment, deodar forests, the Gilbert Trail and Monkey Point's 36…
Kemmanagundi
A 1,434 m horticultural hill station built by the Maharaja of Mysore — manicured gardens, a Raj-era bungalow a…
Kodachadri
A 1,343 m peak in the Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary — trek through shola and grasslands to a summit with views…
Kudremukh
A 1,894 m horse-faced peak wrapped in rolling grasslands and shola forest — one of Karnataka's oldest national…
Ladakh
The fastest route to a landscape unlike anywhere else on earth: a flight to Leh drops you at 3,500 m into a hi…
Lansdowne
A living cantonment town at 1,706 m where the Garhwal Rifles kept the construction bans in place — no malls, n…
Mahabaleshwar
The Queen of Hill Stations at 1,353 m — strawberry farms, Venna Lake, Tapola's backwaters and viewpoint after …
Malshej Ghat
A misty ghat pass on the Mumbai–Nashik route where the Pimpalgaon Joga dam attracts flocks of flamingos, and t…
Mussoorie
The 2,005 m Mall Road, Kempty Falls and the Doon valley spread below — Mussoorie is the classic NCR hill stati…
Nandi Hills
Bangalore's classic quick escape: a 1,478 m hill fort where the sunrise cloud-inversion is the whole point. On…
Panhala
One of Maharashtra's largest hill forts — 6 km of ramparts, 1,104 m high, where Shivaji spent months of siege.…
Shimla
Colonial Shimla: the Mall Road, Christ Church, Scandal Point and the Kalka toy train that makes the journey as…
Spiti Valley
A rain-shadow valley with 250 mm of rain a year: Tabo's 1,000-year-old monastery, Key's pyramid monastery and …
Toranmal
Maharashtra's quietest hill station — 1,125 m in the Satpura range, home to Bhil tribal culture, a sacred lake…