Best Places to visit in June in India

Lazy summer afternoons, temperatures lingering with ice-teas and lemon sodas and idle holidays almost asking you to step out into a vacation. Sounds June enough? Let’s try another version, with 12 places to visit in June in India- its temperature, season, dates and holidays. Pick the one for you, for a June that says ‘GET.SET.PACK AND HOLIDIFY’.

1. Spiti, Himachal Pradesh

- A lesser known adventure

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If you are into mountain biking, you should probably be packing your bags for Spiti by now, for it is a place to visit in June in India that can offer a ride you don’t want to miss. Even otherwise Spiti has a bit of every color from some of the highest lakes in the world, monasteries to an unseen charm of these mountain desert valleys.

2. Srinagar-Jammu and Kashmir

- For a  house on a lake.

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One moment getting up to a beautiful sunrise on your houseboat, while going for a Shikara ride through Dal lake and countless flowers, in another. This is pretty much what Srinagar feels like, be it its gardens, lakes like skies you can ride through or the most photogenic views your camera might hold.

3. Mussoorie, Uttaranchal

- The picture perfect hill station your summers are incomplete without

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Mussoorie has been an escape from the unforgiving heat in the plains since the colonial era, and is still pretty wonderful at that job. This ‘Queen of hill stations’ has a bit of history and most of nature’s pretty gifts from streams to waterfalls to make an ideal summer vacation place to visit in June in India for you.

4.Kudremukh, Karnataka

- Literally meaning horse-faced, this one is brimming with lush greenery

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Kudremukh has been a popular getaway from Bangalore for a while now and with some natural hotspots and a mountain range recognized as a UNESCO world heritage site, this one needs to be marked out in your calender this June. Its got all you can ask from a hill station and some of the most dense and green forests you might ever go trekking through.

5. Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh

- Your escape into a scenery of spirituality and colorful monasteries

Jung Falls at Tawang (Source)

Tawang is popular as the birth place of Dalai Lama and is an almost perfect destination with its sceneries echoing with chants of spirituality and Buddhism. Tawang has many monasteries laid out all across its mystical landscapes, with Tawang Monastery being the most popular one.

6. Mudumalai, Tamil Nadu

- For an exotic break with the rarest of creatures

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If your idea of this summer is about exotic flora and fauna, spotting wildlife around lush green forests and bird-watching with skies filled with rare varieties of birds, then Madumalai is beyond perfect. With views inherited from the Nilgiris, Madumalai National Park can offer you a truly memorable June.

7. Aizawl,Mizoram

-A summer tinted in cultures and colors of Mizos

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Aizwal can be the very colorful and lively bit of the North-East you want to explore this summer. A state museum, highest waterfall in the area, a lake borrowed from a fairy-tale, hills and picturesque views, this capital is a simple summer getaway which will almost leave you enchanted.

8. Lansdowne, Uttarakhand

- A summer vacation right from the colonial era

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This is the place to visit in June in India for you if you want peace, calm and quiet on one hand and adventure, Jungle Safaris and trekking on the other, on demand. For the rest of your time here, you can let the beauty that the area shares with the Himalayas refresh and fascinate you as you walk through its landscapes full of pine and oak.

9.  Hemis, Jammu and Kashmir

- Your vacation borrowed from paradise

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Ever thought what it would be like to have sceneries borrowed from paradise filled with colors of Buddhist festivals, chants and awe- inspiring monasteries? Hemis is the very place to visit in India that this dream would look like, with each side of it,  beyond imagination and absolutely breathtaking.

10. North Sikkim, Sikkim

- Like most magical things this one too is lesser known and mostly uninhabited

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This one is mystical, magical and serene and all yours to keep for the summers. It is one of the most uninhabited areas of the country given the harsh conditions, but summers will let you see its softer and welcoming side. Along with one of the highest lakes of  India, North Sikkim is the home to the most heaven-like landscapes and views.

11. Ponmudi, Kerala

- Your pleasant surprise from the Western ghats

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While most of Kerala deals with a hot and humid summer, this hill station is a pleasant surprise for the area. It checks all columns on your list with a Golden Valley, tea plantations, water springs, waterfalls and streams, a deer park and sparkling green surroundings almost defining the area. Top it up with a bit of excitement with trekking and mountain climbing and there it is – an ideal summer vacation in India.

12. Hemkund Sahib, Uttarakhand

- A vacation more spiritual

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This is the place to visit in June in India if you want to be someplace which has lakes and mountains guarding a temple and a gurudwara which have histories as sacred as the air here. And if you are running a bit late this June you might get to witness a Valley of Flowers, nearby almost ready to bloom in the coming month.