Top 5 Best Place to Visit in Kullu

Here are the Top 5 Best Place to Visit in Kullu.

Kullu is the one of the most beautiful district of himachal pradesh(India). Kullu is situated around at an altitude of 1230 m. It is very famous for the tourist all around world because of the beautiful valleys. Kullu is also called as “Dev Bhumi” because of presence of many Devi and Devtas and is mainly famous for Dusshera. Kullu Dusshera is the international festival which is celebrated in the month of october. This festival takes around 7 days to complete. In this festival devi and devtas from all valley comes here. Thousand of people from all over india came here to enjoy this festival. Mainly this place is surrounded by hills, which makes this place very attractive. There are many valleys which makes this place very attractive and beautiful. These places are listed as below :

Here i have listed Top 5 Best Place to Visit in Kullu.

1. Bijli Mahadev

Bijli Mahadev is the one of the most famous temple of kullu district in himacha pradesh. This temple is located around at an altitude of about 2460m. Bijli Mahadev is about 22 km from kullu bus stand. You can take directly bus from the bus stand. Bus will drop you a station near to Bijli Mahadev from where you have to take a walk of around 1 hour maximum. This place is at the top of Kullu and there is a temple of Lord Shiva. It is believed that the priest of the temple has to restore the Shiva linga placed inside the temple using butter and sattoo after every lightning as it shatters to pieces with flash of lightning.

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2. Parvati Valley

If you are thinking about a trip to somewhere in mountains then i will suggest you all to travel parvati Valley. It is situated in the district kullu of himachal Pradesh and is surrounded by mountains on two sides making a narrow route throughout the whole valley. All the villages are situated at the two sides of these mountains. More than half of population is under rural area.

In the summer and winter season the view of parvati Valley is awesome. Because of this people from all over india and from other countries travel to this beautiful place.

3. Manali

Manali is also one of the most beautiful place of kullu district. There are many place at manali where you can travel such as Hidimba temple, Jogani fall, Vashishat, Rohtang pass, Solang etc. In manali Jogani fall is one of the most popular place for the tourists because of the beautiful scenery around here. At Jogani fall there is a huge waterfall. The view of this waterfall is totally amazing. I never traveled there before but i wish one day that i can make a trip to this beautiful place.

You can also visit to Hidimba temple which is near to manali Mall Road. It takes almost 20-30 minutes to reach at temple from Manali bus stand. This temple is surrounded by forest which makes this place very attaractive. This temple belongs to “Hidimba devi” the wife of Bhima who is a main character of Mahabharata. There is also a temple about 100m far from this temple which is “Ghatotkach temple”. Ghatotkach was also a character of Mahabharta and he is son of Hidima and Bhima.

You can also take a lool toward a place named as “Vashishat“. Vashisht is a small village which is located about 3 km from Manali across the River Beas. This beautiful village is famous for Vashisht temple and hot water springs. This temple is built just next to the hot water springs. In this place temple and many houses that are dedicated to a local saint Vashishat and Lord Rama.The water from this spring is believed to have great healing powers, which can cure many skin diseases and other infections. There are also bath houses that contain the hot water from the springs. There are separate baths for both men and women which are also fitted with showers.

4. Jalori Pass

Jalori pass is a high mountain pass which is placed at an altitude of 10,800 ft from the sea level. This place is best for the adventure trip. At the top of jalori pass there is a Mahakali temple known as jalori Mata. Thousands of peoples travel here every year from all over place in india. This pass remain closed in the winter seaspm due to the heavy rainfall. There is also a place nearby named as ‘Sayolsar’. This place is also very beautiful. I have also visited this place in the last two year. It was a college trip with my friends and we covered the whole trip within one day.

5. Great Himalayan National Park

This park is situated at kullu district of himachal pradesh at an altitude of 1500-6000m from the sea level. There are almost more than 375 species in this park. It includes mainly 9 amphibians, 11 annelids, 17 mollusks, 127 insects 31 mammals, 181 birds and 3 reptiles. In June, 2014 “The Great himalayan national park” was added in the UNESCO list of world heritage sites. This place is awesome to visit and you can also enjoy the different sites of the park. Moving toward the nature is always makes us happy and specially relax our mind and body.