Land of Mountain Goddesses
The Himachal Shakti Circuit
Himachal Pradesh holds an extraordinary concentration of goddess shrines across the Kangra Valley and Shivalik foothills — five major Shakti Peethas (Jwalamukhi, Naina Devi, Chamunda Devi, Chintpurni and Brajeshwari Devi) traditionally visited together as the Himachal Devi circuit, alongside countless smaller temples maintaining an unbroken Shakti worship tradition that has shaped the region's spiritual identity for over a thousand years.
Beyond Shakti worship, Himachal is home to the high-altitude Hemkund Sahib Sikh gurdwara at the border with Uttarakhand, ancient Buddhist monasteries in the Spiti and Lahaul valleys, and McLeod Ganj near Dharamshala — home in exile to the 14th Dalai Lama and a major centre of Tibetan Buddhist culture.
22Major pilgrimage sites
5Major Shakti Peethas
MillionsAnnual Navratri pilgrims
