Let's start by talking about the heart of the hill stations of India - The Mall Road.
Bustling with people and hand cart rickshaws, with lots of shops and eateries - the mall road is literally the main city centre.
The famous waterfalls of Mussoorie are Kempty Falls. They're totally commercialized now with maggi shops all around the base of the falls. With over 300 steps to get to the base, the hike back up could be tiring. There shops selling local nicnacs all through the steps.
You could dive in the falls with appropriate swimwear! The water was freezing cold in March when I visited.
Kempty Village has a wall of hope made out of plastic waste. If you find it like I did, it's worth your IG shot!
It's the second highest peak of Mussoorie and you could directly go there via cable car. Now when I was visiting, the cable car was shut for its repairs and so I decided to hike the way up to see the view 🤩
It had just hail stormed minutes before I took the climb and so the view was spectacular with just the sun shining through the rain bearing clouds.
A classic must visit and most recommended for your time in Mussourie is this small town of Landour.
Visit Landour BakeHouse, Cafe Ivy and Chaar Dukan - food stops which are iconic, tasty and offer a great view of the valleys. A stop to Kellogg's church would be nice. They've built an open graveyard in the valley which isn't too eerie to stop and have a look !
I experienced snow fall when I was Landour.
This View point is in Landour itself. It gives you a majestic view of the mighty Himalayan Ranges.
There are 2 cafes there where you can sip hot chai and enjoy the view.
Now this was quite a loooong trek for us since we hadn't rented a car on the trip. So we had an extra long uphill walk to the house.
It's in part of a national park. We started our walk for Zero Point. Coming down to Haathipaaon, the house is just a few kms away. The last 2 kms are a total uphill paved climb that might catch your breath but the beautiful trees, chirping of birds and a misty environment take the cake!
Once you reach George Everest House, the peak is a few 500 mts uphill.
Sadly it was raining when we reached the house itself. Had to wait for over an hour in a hut for the rains to stop and so we couldn't see the peak. As we heard, there are those Tibetan flags all across the hills and the views of the valley specially sunrise and sunset are great from the peak.
