Hotels in Hill Stations in India

Hotels in Hill Stations in India

Hotels in Hill stations in Indi are often required for tourists who need a place to stay. Some may want to stay at high quality hotels. Some may want to stay at large or small hotels. Some may want to stay at hotels that have a decent reputation. Some may want to stay at well known hotels.

Hotels in Hill Stations are often needed by tourists who need a place to stay. Some may want to stay at hotels that have good prices.

Hill station is a term used for a town usually at somewhat higher elevations. The term was used in colonial Asia (particularly India, but rarely in Africa), where towns have been founded by European colonial rulers as refuges from the summer heat. In the Indian context most hill stations are at an altitude of approximately between 1,000 and 2,500 metres (3,500 to 7,500 feet); very few are outside this range.

Hill stations being at higher altitudes are cooler than plains.

The British Raj, and in particular the British Indian Army, founded perhaps 50 of the 80-odd hill stations in the Indian subcontinent; the remainder were built by various Indian rulers over the centuries as places of leisure or even as permanent capitals. Some respected historians such as Dane Kennedy say there are only 65 "true" hill stations in the subcontinent, if one combines adjoining stations and excludes small hamlets without civic facilities.

Several hill stations served as summer capitals of Indian provinces, princely states, or, in the case of Simla, of British India itself. Since Indian Independence, the role of these hill stations as summer capitals has largely ended, but many hill stations remain popular summer resorts.

List of hill stations

This is a list of hill stations in various countries, which are mainly in Asia.

India (by state)

See also: Category:Indian hill stations

Most famous hill stations in North India are Shimla, Darjeeling, Kullu-Manali, Mussoorie, Nainital and that in South India are Ooty, Munnar and Kodaikanal.

Andhra Pradesh
Horsley Hills
Ananthagiri Hills
Araku Valley
Gujarat
Saputara
Himachal Pradesh
Chail
Dalhousie
Dharamsala
Kasauli
Kullu and Manali
Shimla
Jammu and Kashmir
Pahalgam
Gulmarg
Patnitop
Khilanmarg
Jharkhand
Hazaribagh

Karnataka
Agumbe
Horanadu
Kemmannagundi
Kudremukh
Nandi Hills
Kerala
Devikulam
Munnar
Nelliampathi
Peermade
Ponmudi
Wayanad
Vellarimala
Trivendram
Kovalambith
Madhya Pradesh
Pachmarhi
Maharashtra
Khandala
Lonavala
Mahabaleshwar

Matheran
Panchgani
Karjat
Igatpuri
Panhala
Toranmal
Meghalaya
Shillong
Cherrapunjee
Rajasthan
Mount Abu
Tamil Nadu
Yelagiri
Coonoor
Kodaikanal
Udagamandalam
Yercaud
Kolli hills
Valparai
Uttarakhand
Bhimtal
Chamoli
Mussoorie
Landour
Nainital
Nanda Devi
Pithoragarh

Ranikhet
Munsiyari
Champawat
Gangolihat
Berinag
Askot
Didihat
Chaukori
Bageshwar
Lohaghat
Joshimath
Uttarkashi
Badrinath
Pauri
Auli
Almora
West Bengal
Darjeeling
Kalimpong

Pakistan (by province)

Azad Kashmir
Muzaffarabad

Northwest Frontier Province: Most of the hill stations of the NWFP are in the Galiyat region, which also extends into the Murree Tehsil of the Punjab province.
Abbottabad
Ayubia
Behrain
Chitral
Galyat
Kalam Valley
Malam Jabba
Nathia Gali
Patriata
Swat

Northern Areas
Gilgit
Hunza
Skardu

Punjab: All the hill stations listed here are in the Galiyat region. Although the Galiyat area is primarily in the NWFP, it also extends into the Murree Tehsil of the Punjab province. The largest hill station of the Galiyat is the town of Murree.
Bhurban
Charra Pani
Murree
Patriata

Sindh

In the Dadu District, the Gorakh Hills area of the Kirthar Range is being developed as a hill station. The Gorakh Hills are located 450 kilometres north of Karachi and 100 kilometres west of Dadu. According to meteorological studies, Gorakh Peak lies at an altitude of 5,688 feet above sealevel. In winter, people of the area come down from the mountains due to the severe cold and stay in the Kachho area. The temperature in June is 17 to 30 degrees Celsius (average) and in January -5 to 20 degrees Celsius (average). Average annual rainfall is 12.5 inches (320 mm). The surface of the Gorakh is 1,340 acres (540 ha) of land.

Sri Lanka

Nuwara Eliya
Ambewela

Southeast Asia

Malaysia
Cameron Highlands
Fraser's Hill
Maxwell Hill
Penang Hill
Myanmar
Maymyo
Kalaw
Indonesia
Bandung in West Java
Garut in West Java
Kaliurang in Central Java
Sukabumi in West Java
Philippines
Baguio City
Cambodia
Bokor Hill
Vietnam
Da Lat
Sa Pa
Tam Dao
Ba Na