Sky Pie

Dharamsala


Across the street from Vashnu Mata Temple, rooms in Sky Pie's guesthouse section are decent budget options, while those in its hotel building next door are sparkling delights for the price, with balcony views and good beds. In between is a backpacker-oriented garden restaurant, and the complex also includes a yoga space, a jewellery-making studio, a travel agency and a massage centre.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Dharamsala attractions

1. Vashnu Mata Temple

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Small but awesomely kitsch: inside Vashnu Mata Temple you climb into the very claustrophobic inner grotto through a concrete lion's mouth and emerge…

2. Bhagsunag Shiva Temple

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Bhagsu's small, 16th-century Shiva temple would be forgettable but for the cold, clean, spring-fed pool out front. This has been enlarged into an open-air…

3. TIPA

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This flourishing arts school keeps traditional Tibetan dance, music and colourful folk opera (lhamo) very much alive among the exile community. Irregular…

4. Bhagsu Waterfall

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From Bhagsu's Shiva temple pools, a well-paved 1km path leads up the streamside to Bhagsu waterfall, most impressive during the monsoon.

5. Chorten

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Ringed by colourful prayer wheels, this recently built temple between Temple and Jogiwara Rds is generally known as the Chorten (Tibetan for stupa), since…

6. Hope Gallery

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Through a gallery-cafe and film screenings, this organisation tells the tales of individual Tibetan lives as a way to illustrate Tibet's plight.

7. Gu-Chu-Sum Movement Gallery

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A charity that assists current and former Tibetan political prisoners, Gu-Chu-Sum has a gallery displaying harrowing photos chronicling oppression in…

8. Gallu Devi

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About as far as you can drive into Dharamsala's rugged mountain backdrop, the tiny temple of Gallu Devi is a good destination for a short but satisfying…