Hotel Shikhar

Uttarakhand


Dominating the centre of town and built to take in the views, this large, boxlike hotel offers a maze of rooms covering all budgets. The cheaper rooms are soulless and worn, but not too awful. The top-tier rooms are Almora's nicest.

It's part of a small tourist complex of craft shops, travel agents and cyber cafes.


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