DHARAMSALA & McCLEOD GANJ – LITTLE LHASA PACKAGE ✨🏔️🙏

Pickup from Gaggal Airport (~15 km, 30 min) or Pathankot Railway Station (~90 km, 2.5 hrs) 🛕 Tsuglagkhang Complex (Dalai Lama's main temple) – Namgyal Monastery; Avalokitesvara (Chenrezig) deity; Tibet Museum next door (history of Chinese occupation; deeply moving); Dalai Lama's residential complex (residence visible from temple courtyard) 🏘 McLeod Ganj market – Tibetan restaurants, thangka paintings, prayer flags, singing bowls, momos; Dharamsala is home to 10,000+ Tibetan refugees ⛪ St. John in the Wilderness Church (1852, 2 km walk through oak forest) – Gothic stone church; Lord Elgin's tomb inside; peaceful colonial-era atmosphere 🌅 Dal Lake Dharamsala (2 km below McLeod) – small mountain lake; snow-capped Dhauladhar peaks reflected in calm water

• Pickup from Gaggal Airport (~15 km, 30 min) or Pathankot Railway Station (~90 km, 2.5 hrs)
• Tsuglagkhang Complex (Dalai Lama's main temple) – Namgyal Monastery; Avalokitesvara (Chenrezig) deity; Tibet Museum next door (history of Chinese occupation; deeply moving); Dalai Lama's residential complex (residence visible from temple courtyard)
• McLeod Ganj market – Tibetan restaurants, thangka paintings, prayer flags, singing bowls, momos; Dharamsala is home to 10,000+ Tibetan refugees
• St. John in the Wilderness Church (1852, 2 km walk through oak forest) – Gothic stone church; Lord Elgin's tomb inside; peaceful colonial-era atmosphere
• Dal Lake Dharamsala (2 km below McLeod) – small mountain lake; snow-capped Dhauladhar peaks reflected in calm water
• Check-in & Overnight stay in McLeod Ganj

Early breakfast (7 AM) 💧 Bhagsu Nag Waterfall & Temple (2 km walk from McLeod) – small but scenic Himalayan cascade; Bhagsu Nag Shiva temple at the base; popular café culture en route 🥾 Triund Trek (9 km one way, 2,875 m) – Dharamsala's most popular day trek; ascent through oak & rhododendron forest; emerges onto a stunning Himalayan ridge; sweeping view of Dhauladhar range on one side & Kangra Valley on the other; 4–5 hrs up, 3 hrs down (if not trekking: Kangra Fort, 30 km below, 5th-c. fort of ancient Katoch kingdom – one of India's oldest) 🌅 Sunset from McLeod town or upper Bhagsu ridge

• Early breakfast (7 AM)
• Bhagsu Nag Waterfall & Temple (2 km walk from McLeod) – small but scenic Himalayan cascade; Bhagsu Nag Shiva temple at the base; popular café culture en route
• Triund Trek (9 km one way, 2,875 m) – Dharamsala's most popular day trek; ascent through oak & rhododendron forest; emerges onto a stunning Himalayan ridge; sweeping view of Dhauladhar range on one side & Kangra Valley on the other; 4–5 hrs up, 3 hrs down
• if not trekking: Kangra Fort, 30 km below, 5th-c. fort of ancient Katoch kingdom – one of India's oldest)
• Sunset from McLeod town or upper Bhagsu ridge
• Overnight stay in McLeod Ganj

Breakfast & check-out 🏛 Norbulingka Institute (6 km below McLeod) – centre for Tibetan arts, crafts & culture; thangka painting; wood carving; metalwork; Doll Museum; Losel Doll Museum; temple gardens; traditional crafts in progress (best to arrive 9–11 AM) 🏰 Kangra Fort (30 km from McLeod) – one of India's oldest & largest forts; Katoch dynasty; Mughal & British sieges; Brajeshwari temple inside 🚗 Transfer to Gaggal Airport / Pathankot Railway Station for departure

• Breakfast & check-out
• Norbulingka Institute (6 km below McLeod) – centre for Tibetan arts, crafts & culture; thangka painting; wood carving; metalwork; Doll Museum; Losel Doll Museum; temple gardens; traditional crafts in progress (best to arrive 9–11 AM)
• Kangra Fort (30 km from McLeod) – one of India's oldest & largest forts; Katoch dynasty; Mughal & British sieges; Brajeshwari temple inside
• Transfer to Gaggal Airport / Pathankot Railway Station for departure