Kausani

Kausani
कौसानी
Town

Sunset at Kausani
Kausani

Location in Uttarakhand, India

Coordinates: 29°50′N 79°36′E / 29.84°N 79.60°E / 29.84; 79.60Coordinates: 29°50′N 79°36′E / 29.84°N 79.60°E / 29.84; 79.60
Country  India
State Uttarakhand
District Bageshwar
Elevation 1,890 m (6,200 ft)
Languages
 • Official Hindi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
Telephone code 059628

Kausani (Hindi: कौसानी) is a hill station situated in Bageshwar district in the state of Uttarakhand, India.

Overview

Kausani is located 52 km north of Almora. There are very few places in the Himalayas that can compare with the beauty of Kausani - a picturesque hill station famous for its scenic splendour and its spectacular 300 km-wide panoramic view of Himalayan peaks like Trisul, Nanda Devi and Panchchuli. Kausani lies atop a ridge at an altitude of around 1890 m amidst dense pine trees overlooking Someshwar valley on one side and Garur and Baijnath Katyuri valley on the other on Almora-Bageshwar-Didihat Highway. Mahatma Gandhi called this place the 'Switzerland of India', due to similarity in landscape.

Tourist attractions

Trisul, Nanda Devi and Himalayan range from Kausani, Uttarakhand.

Anashakti Ashram is a quiet and revered place where Mahatma Gandhi spent some days and wrote his commentary of Anashkti Yog. Pant Museum is another place of importance, this being the place where the famous poet of Hindi literature, Sumitranandan Pant was born. The KMVN (Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam) resthouse in Kausani is an ideal place to stay and it provides panoramic views of the mountains.

Lakshmi Ashram is one kilometre away from the Kausani, and is a center run by Kumauni women and dedicated to social service and the upliftment of women. Gandhiji's disciple, Sarla Behn (Kaitherine Heileman) established the ashram in 1948,[1] and spent her life here doing social service and also established Anashakti Ashram. Lakshmi ashram is located in a solitary area among dense pine forest.

Tea gardens (5 km on Bageshwar Road), Baijnath group of temples (16.5 km on Bageshwar Road) and Bageshwar are the places of interest nearby.

Places Around Kausani

A view of Himalaya

Trek Near Kausani

Panorama

Panoramic view of the Himalayas from Kausani

References

  1. ↑ George Alfred James (2013). Ecology Is Permanent Economy: The Activism and Environmental Philosophy of Sunderlal Bahuguna. SUNY Press. pp. 228–. ISBN 978-1-4384-4673-8.

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