Travelling to Kumaon

Urban Yayawar

Hello

I am travelling to Nainital - Ranikhet - Corbett in May end alongwith my family. The proposed plan is 2 Nights at Nainital followed by 4 Nights at Ranikhet & 1 night at Corbett.

At Nainital, we intend to cover Pangot, local sights & all Tals.

From Ranikhet we intend to cover Kausani & Baijnath.

I would like to know if Mirtola Ashram can also be visited from Ranikhet.

Also, what else can be covered from Ranikhet?

Can anyone also tell me a reasonably clean & comfortable place for staying at Nainital?

Looking forward to responses.

Regards

Ashish

Dilliwala

Mirtola is closer to Almora (one hour). You can cover it from Ranikhet but that wud become a full-day trip.

Urban Yayawar

Thanx a lot Dilliwala. Incidentally, is it possible to tell me the approx. distances from Nainital to Ranikhet Via Almora & Mirtola. In fact is it feasible?

Also, what are the distances from Ranikhet to Baijnath via Kausani.

Regards

Ashish

Almoraboy

from nainital, you go till garam pani (common point). from there, you get a different road to ranikhet and a different one to almora. so do not go to ranikhet via almora - it will be slightly long.
for exact distances, check out with DW or Piyush.

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Dilliwala

Nainital-Almora - 76 km
Almora-Panwanaula - 32 km (Mirtola is 2 km from here)
Panwanaula-Almora(bypass)-Ranikhet - 73 km

That's 5-6 hours of driving. Unless you have a special reason to go to Mirtola, I'd give it a miss. Read about it in Bill Aitken's book, that's good enough.