Chitkul is a traditional Kinnauri village of stone-and-wood houses whose flat roofs are weighted with river stones, a design perfect for Chitkul in winter. The Mathi Devi temple is the spiritual centre a 500-year-old wooden pagoda. The best of all things to do in Chitkul is simply walking through the lanes on your Chitkul trip: seeing potato fields, drying racks of apples, and old village elders in traditional woven caps.

What makes this place special

A 500-year-old wooden pagoda temple is the guardian shrine of the village, a must-see on any Chitkul trip.

Traditional Kinnauri homes in Chitkul have stone-weighted roofs, a building style unchanged for centuries and built to withstand a harsh Chitkul in winter.