Barot Valley
We call it Switzerland of India
We don’t sell tour packages,
We offer EXPERIENCES worth a lifetime …
Taurus deployed in the mountains for night photography. It offers offbeat experiential holidays in wilderness and in the middle of nowhere with comforts which one needs for a night stay with family.
Barot Valley is a paradise created by Him and we add value to it to offer experiential holidays for those who love outdoors and Nature.
Our camping trailer named as Hornbill is deployed in Himachal Pradesh in this photo, India
Our holidays are to detox, relax, unwind and rejuvenate in real!
Tear Drop Trailer (named as Praying Mantis) is the most comfortable compact unit for outdoor holiday with lots of comforts. It has sleeping arrangements and well equipped kitchenette.
CAMP THAT CHANGES SPOTS
Taurus and it’s adorable siblings will offer (March to October) most exhilarating family holidays in the general area of Barot Valley, we fondly call it ‘Switzerland of India’. It’s a green and quiet place to relax and unwind; not stuffed with tourists. When the plains are searing with heat it is nice cool and pleasant to enjoy soothing walks without itchy sweat!
The design of our infrastructure ensures you spend max quality time with your family in a compact wilderness area around Jhatingri while changing spots when needed. This saves your time and money as you don’t spend your time on roads rushing from one spot to another. Though you can opt for short excursions/ sightseeing as extra activity to add flavour to your holiday.
HIGHLIGHTS
- A Switzerland within India.
- Nature at it’s best – cool breeze loaded with oxygen, view of snow clad mountains, you may try organic fruit and veggies.
- Holiday to relax, detox, unwind and rejuvenate in true sense.
- Activities: Trekking, strolls in wilderness, star gazing, bird watching, just laze around, family picnic, sunset with tea in wilderness, etc. There are many activities on platter for you.
- We plan and design to fulfill your long pending dream for an exhilarating holiday/vacation to cherish for life.
- Stay in Recreational Vehicle and Trailers – one of a kind of infrastructure.
- Enjoy your holidays with CAMP THAT CHANGES SPOTS with least time of driving on roads.
- Safest holiday under the circumstances of Corona Pandemic (COVID-19). It offers “physical distancing” to be safe from COVID-19.
How To Reach:
Our location on Google Map.
To be safe from Corona, we strongly suggest you adopt “bubble travel” and drive in your own car to reach our camp.
- Well connected by road and air.
- Gaggal Airport (Kangra) 95 kms.
- Bhuntar (Kullu) Airport 83 kms.
- Chandigarh airport 245 kms.
- Delhi Airport 496 kms.
- 97 kms from McLeodganj/ Dharamshala
- 45 kms from Mandi.
Weather: In summers, it remains cool while plains experience “heat wave”.
Features and Facilities: Taurus is an RV (recreational vehicle) which performs as Overland Truck with combination of caravan, campervan and motorhome. We ensure you have a very special holiday – nomadic yet comfortable and with touch of aristocracy. It’s an outdoor holiday to enjoy rendezvous with Nature to relax and detox in real, and can’t be compared for facilities of static camp, resort, hotel and restaurant. It’s completely different and is meant for those who love and understand outdoors.
Accommodation:
- Taurus can host 11 persons to sleep as shown in photos.
- Trailers can host 2 to 5 persons in each.
- One single person also can book a trailer to stay away from rest of the group for ‘social distancing’.
We provide mattresses and linen.
Kitchen & Food:
- Taurus has a well equipped kitchen.
- We serve food from the kitchen of Taurus if you don’t want to cook in your trailer’s kitchenette.
- Trailers also have own kitchenettes equipped to cook food.
- If you stay onboard trailers then you have two options – book trailer with kitchenette or without.
Toilets:
- Taurus has one toilet onboard fitted with the best Western seat, made in USA, which is specially made for caravans.
- There are two field toilets dry type (best available, imported from the USA), in tents with western style seats. These are deployed when the is 100% occupancy.
DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM
Rustic Holidays with Aristocratic Touch
Capt Suresh Sharma the founder and team leader of operations ensures quality with his personal supervision and involvement. Barot Valley is a paradise created by Him and we set up the best infrastructure to enjoy exhilarating offbeat holidays.
TARIFF
- Basic tariff is for stay only, between Rs 1500 to Rs 7500 per person per day depends on which accommodation has been booked with your package.
- It depends on what you have booked (Taurus, Praying Mantis, Hornbill or Garud), different locations, number of days, number of persons as a group, optional activities, facilities and the kitchen service you opt.
- Onboard kitchen will be available as ‘extra’ to serve breakfast, lunch, evening tea, hot snacks, dinner to exercise freedom and choice to eat out or choose a different location and set-up for lunch and dinner with us. This way you save money and enjoy variety!
- We offer special tariff for families and couples staying for more than 2 nights. Please call +91-6280595008, +91-9888380386 for group tariff.
- Trailers and Taurus can be moved to different locations in the general area of Jhatingri, as per your choice. Tariff changes as per the efforts invested to move to different locations (machinery, equipment, fuel, manpower and rent of the location).
- Your tariff will be quoted when you have decided about your accommodation and facilities you opt for your holiday.
WHAT IS INCLUDED
- Stay onboard Taurus or “Camping Trailers” in “static camping mode” in wilderness, as per the facilities available onboard or committed for your program at the time of booking.
- Food as per your booking (veg or non-veg).
- Filtered water to drink is served with food.
- Linen, quilts and sleeping bags.
- Camping equipment (dome tents, camping chairs, camp stools, sleeping bags, camp mattress with linen as available), as per your package.
- Self-service mobile camping in static mode to save your time and money (if you want to travel in our overland truck it will cost you extra), instead stay at the camp in wilderness and enjoy our unique setup and recreational facilities/ activities. Make the maximum use of the facilities to enhance your holiday.
- Also, you are much safer with our special protocols for the best hygiene to keep you safe from Corona.
WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED
- Journey from home to Camp at Jhatingri and back home. Pick up and drop in case you are travelling by bus. Excursions and sightseeing. We suggest you to drive in your own car for “social distancing” and use it for local drives and excursions, you save your money too.
- Guides, escorts, porters.
- Shifting of trailers and Taurus to different locations.
- Food and beverages of all kinds (tea, coffee, cool drinks, refreshments, filtered water other than meal time, packaged/ bottled water), non-veg food and snacks (veg and non veg). Will be available at extra cost.
- Insurance of all kinds. Anything related to medical emergencies. Expenses of personal nature.
- Food for servants and domestic helps escorting the family. It’s charged at par with guests.
- Anything which is not mentioned in the list WHAT IS INCLUDED.
Exciting Extra Stuff: Activities
To be paid on the basis “pay as you consume”.
- Sunrise Safari with safari trailer
- Fun Safari with safari trailer
- Night Safari for star gazing and cooking equipent with safari trailer
- Safari with outdoor lunch.
- Safari with outdoor lunch and evening tea with fresh snacks.
- Sunset Safari Fula-ri-Dhar top (about 2 kms one way) – escorted with a session of cup of tea.
- Walk by yourself till Fula-ri-Dhar top (about 2 kms one way) – unguided.
- Enjoy an escorted Jungle Walk.
- Guided walk till a lake (about four kms one way) with the glimpse of village life – INR 500 per person, if it’s a group.
- Barbecue in jungle set up or in the camp itself.
- Jungle Picnic: beverages, snacks, lunch, evening tea with snacks.
- Tea Bar: Variety of tea with fresh and organic Tulsi, Lemon Grass, Mint, etc.
- Mouthwatering local cuisine of Himachal “Dhaam” (veg or non non-veg), if you are part of a group.
- Local fish (Trout) for food and snacks.
- Local non-veg food and snacks.
- Meditation and Yoga Session.
- Angling.
- “Tear Drop Trailer” for couples to spend night in wilderness.
- Night Stay in Jungle like setting in a trailer: Hide in The Lap of Nature.
- Recreational Games: croquet, golf putting, table games, dart.
- Lassi Session: Freshly churned with conventional methods – butter milk (sour) and curd lassi (sweet).
- Session in wilderness (group activity) for hot and fresh Jalebi, Gulab Jamun, Halwa.
- Milk Session: conventionally boiled on slow fire and served with dry fruit, dry dates.
- Excursions to explore nearby places.
- We can help you hire transport for local visits.
- Stay at Colonel’s Highland Retreat & Astrocamp, it’s a walking distance.
Camping Trailers are the best option to enjoy offbeat holidays in Himachal Pradesh. It keeps you safe from Corona Pandemic as you can maintain “social distancing” within the camp. Let’s host you in Barot Valley.
THINGS TO DO
Hiking : To enjoy rendezvous with Nature, walk along the beaten trails and on top of the mountain ridge, it is an experience to remember for life. With a gradual gradient for most of the hike and with an unmatched scenery on both sides of the ridge, soothing of mind and nerves happens naturally. A great de-stresser, we recommend this activity for all our guests. Options are as under:-
Trekking: Trekking options with moderate to difficult grades are available on prior bookings and for groups of minimum 6 persons. We provide expert guides, porters and ponies (if route allows latter). The charges will vary between INR 2000 to 3000 per person per day. Options are as under:-
- Trek to Diana Sar.
- Trek to Thamsar pass.
- Trek to Bara Bangal.
- Trek to Bir via Billing.
- Trek to Winch Station.
- Trek to Kullu via Bhubh Jot.
- Light Trek to Bhoot Bangla!
Sight-Seeing: Barot, Bara Gaon (base of Rajgunda), Parashar Lake, Bir, Baijnath and Billing.
Water Craft: Barot valley has few professionals offering water rappelling, river crossing and rock climbing. We can co-ordinate the same on no profit/no loss basis.
Para Gliding: A famous take off point, 360 Degree, lies in our area and is about 3 Kms from our location. But due to wind behaviour, para gliding by experts only is allowed here. For amateur flying, we can co-ordinate the same with experienced professionals based out of Bir.
Astro Watch: The terrain and geography of our location has been rated as 8 out of 10 for astro-activities like star gazing, galaxy watch, astro-photography and so on. Such programs, however, are organised during major astronomical events happening in the sky above us.
Bird Watching: A total of 106 varieties of birds have been identified around our area. Those who have an eye and have love for cherubs, shall have an unforgettable experience.
Flora: Dense Deodhar and Bann forests surround us. Wild orchids grow in plenty during rains. Famous Pahari potatoes grow all around us.
Barot Valley is one of the most picturesque areas of Himachal.
Taurus photographed during “TAME THE LIGHT GOD’ photography workshop to explain the role of light, especially flash photography.
Our area of operations and deployment in Barot Valley, Himachal Pradesh
Rhododendron embellishes the slopes of the mountains of Himachal Pradesh. It has medicinal values and grow naturally.
We organise space for Yoga session in the lap of Nature at ‘Sunrise Nature Camp’ which is nestled in the lap of Mother Nature – it’s rendezvous with your soul.
Rhododendron flowers in full bloom in Barot Valley
Most safe offbeat holidays for single women (solo girls) in Himachal Pradesh. Enjoy village walks either escorted or alone. And with social distancing to be safe from corona.
We offer the best “offbeat destinations” for family holidays where you enhance your health while detoxing in the lap of nature. Enjoy a light trek to “Bhoot Bangla”
Walk into woods and enjoy personal yoga sessions in the lap of nature while being on offbeat family holidays – the best way to detox and enhance your health
Enjoy offbeat holidays away from Corona – its the safest nomadic holiday with total safety and comfort – social distancing within the camp. We ensure it to be “Corona Safe Holiday”.
Holidays for your soul in the lap of nature in rural Himachal Pradesh. We offer “Corona Safe Holidays”
Experience the “gifts of Mother Nature”. Himalayan Blackberry (Rubus armeniacus). They are very tasty and rich in Vit C Vit K , antioxidants and flavinoids. We get a lot of them here. Himalayan Raspberry (Rubus ellipticus), on the other hand, is yellow to golden in colour. Locally known as ‘Hisalu’ in these parts, it is also a delicious wild berry.
Organic Green Tea with organic plums and rose petals in offbeat setting – to enjoy detoxing your soul in wilderness with fresh air and best views to relax and rejuvenate. It’s a much needed holiday to destress under the circumstances ensued by Corona Pandemic.
Jhatingri area in barot Valley offers the most quiet holidays in wilderness. And we change spots in this area to ensure our guests utilise every minute and every rupee enjoying in our camp.
Rural Himachal is the best offbeat location to enjoy “Corona Safe Holidays”.
Barot Valley offers the best of rural Himachal Pradesh to enjoy offbeat family holidays.
Family enjoying an escorted and guided light trek in Jhatingri area of Barot Valley in Himachal Pradesh
Enjoy Rendezvous with Nature to detox and relax
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We also use the facilities of Colonel’s Highland Retreat & Astrocamp barot valley Himachal, whenever we need for mutual benefits.
We offer the most blissful experiential holidays to relax and unwind to really rejuvenate. We use the best possible equipment and most hygienic practices in our camp.
We offer the most relaxing family holidays where we organise village walks and meeting with rural folks of Himachal Pradesh. It’s quite an experience for the denizens of cities.
