Yulla Kanda Yatra from Chennai

Fly from Chennai to Chandigarh and let us handle everything after you land: airport pickup, the Kinnaur drive, the full Yulla Kanda trek and darshan, and your drop back for the flight home.

Yatra highlights

• ✦ Airport pickup at Chandigarh (IXC) for travellers from Chennai
• ✦ Darshan at Yulla Kanda — world’s highest Krishna temple (3,895 m)
• ✦ Kinnauri cap floating ritual on the sacred lake
• ✦ Evening aarti at Bhimakali Temple, Sarahan
• ✦ Alpine camping with bhajan sandhya

Day-wise itinerary

1. 1

   Day 1

   Chennai → Chandigarh → Shimla

   ≈3h flight · 115 km · 4 hrs drive

   Take a morning flight from Chennai (MAA) to Chandigarh. Our driver meets you at arrivals with a name board. Drive up the Kalka–Shimla highway past Pinjore and Solan. In the evening, walk the Mall Road and the Ridge in Shimla.

   Overnight: Hotel, Shimla

2. 2

   Day 2

   Shimla → Narkanda → Rampur → Sarahan

   ≈170 km · 6–7 hrs drive

   Drive through apple country past Kufri and Narkanda, then descend to the Sutlej at Rampur Bushahr. Reach Sarahan, gateway to Kinnaur, in time for the evening aarti at the ancient Bhimakali Temple with its tiered wooden pagoda roofs.

   Overnight: Hotel, Sarahan

3. 3

   Day 3

   Sarahan → Jeori → Tapri → Yulla Khas

   ≈70 km · 3 hrs drive · 2,985 m

   Enter Kinnaur along the dramatic Sutlej gorge on NH-5. At Tapri turn up the Rora Valley road to Yulla Khas village, the base of the trek. Afternoon acclimatisation walk among slate-roofed Kinnauri houses and apple orchards, followed by a trek briefing and gear check.

   Overnight: Kinnauri homestay, Yulla Khas

4. 4

   Day 4

   Trek: Yulla Khas → Yulla Kanda Camp

   ≈10 km · 6–7 hrs trek · ~3,700 m

   Begin early with “Jai Shri Krishna”. The trail climbs through deodar, oak and rhododendron forest, then opens into wide alpine meadows with views of the Kinnaur Kailash range. Packed lunch on the way. Reach camp, about 2 km below the temple, for hot tea, evening bhajan and dinner under the stars.

   Overnight: Alpine camp (twin/triple tents)

5. 5

   Day 5

   Darshan at the World’s Highest Krishna Temple · Descend

   ≈2 km up + 12 km down · 7–8 hrs

   A pre-dawn climb brings you to the sacred lake at 3,895 m, with Shri Krishna’s temple on its island. Take darshan, do the lake parikrama and join the local custom of floating a Kinnauri cap upside-down on the water: if it floats across, the year ahead is believed to be blessed. Descend to Yulla Khas by afternoon.

   Overnight: Kinnauri homestay, Yulla Khas

6. 6

   Day 6

   Yulla Khas → Chandigarh

   ≈340 km · 10–11 hrs drive

   Leave early after breakfast and drive back down the Sutlej valley through Rampur and Shimla to Chandigarh. Overnight near the airport so you can catch a flight the next morning.

   Overnight: Hotel, Chandigarh

7. 7

   Day 7

   Chandigarh → Chennai

   Airport drop

   After breakfast, transfer to Chandigarh Airport for your flight home to Chennai, carrying the blessings of Yulla Kanda wale Kanha. Radhe Radhe!