Mussoorie
Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board in the Dehradun district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board in the Dehradun district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is about 26 kilometres (16 mi) from the state Winter capital Dehradun and 289 km (180 mi) north of the national capital of New Delhi. The hill station is in the foothills of the Garhwal Himalayan range. The adjoining town of Landour, which includes a military cantonment, is considered part of "greater Mussoorie", as are the townships Barlowganj and Jharipani.
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Worth seeing in and around Mussoorie
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration is a civil service training institute on public policy and public administration in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand in India. The academy's main purpose is to train civil servants of the IAS cadre and also conduct the Foundation Course of Group-A Central Civil Services.
3.2 km · apex training institute only for Indian Administrative Services(IAS) officer at Mussoorie, Uttrakhand, India · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Bhatta
On the way back to Dehradun from Mussoorie take the opportunity to see Bhatta Falls.
- 02Camty Fall
- 03Company Garden
It is a government initiative, a man made beautiful park with artificial falls and fun rides.
- 04Gun Hill Point
You can enjoy the trolley ride to Gun Hill to view the splendid view of all the city and ice capped Himalaya.
- 05Happy Valley
A couple kilometres from the Library end of the Mall, Happy Valley is a 5,000-strong Tibetan settlement.
- 06Jawahar Aquarium
Jawahar Aquarium has a very nice collection of fish.
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Things to do
- 01Cambridge Book Depot
The Mall Rd (opposite State Bank of India),.
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Where to eat
- 01Clark's Restaurant
Kurli This multi-cuisine place has a bar and a bakery that are part of the menu.
- 02Green Vegetarian
An amazing biryani from locally grown basmati rice makes it a treat to dine here.
- 03Kalsang Chinese & Thai Restaurant
- 04Laxmi Mistan
An amazing candy shop joint which serves lovely paranthas.
- 05Lovely Omelette Centre
Probably serves the best omelettes in Mussoorie.
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Getting to Mussoorie
- Airports
- Shaheed Bhagat Singh (IXC), 126 km · Indira Gandhi (DEL), 231 km · Halwara (HWR), 237 km
- Chandigarh → Mussoorie127 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · ₹1,270–1,580
- New Delhi → Mussoorie220 km · quickest by road, 4h 36m · ₹1,670–2,090
- Halwara → Mussoorie234 km · quickest by road, 5h 43m · ₹2,130–2,670
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Mussoorie
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mussoorie. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inYou can also take a bus to the Library end of Mussoorie and walk to the Kempty Bus stop and take a bus or taxi or a milkvan or hitch a ride with a tourist going in that direction.
- Get inRates are ₹610 per taxi and ₹50 extra for the night charges but you can pay per seat as well in a shared taxi which normally accommodates up to five passengers.
- Get inShared or chartered taxis too are available near the same Hill Section Bus terminal and the rates are controlled by the taxi union.
- Get inShared taxis charging a little over ₹100 per person are also available.
- Get aroundOnce in Mussoorie, the affordable and effective way to get around the city by bus or cycle rickshaws.
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- 01106 km
- 02146 km
- 03198 km
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- 05416 km
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Next door to Mussoorie
Mussoorie is 15 km from Dehradun, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Landourhuman settlement in Dehradun district, Garhwal division, Uttarakhand, India2.9 km