brown wooden house

Apart from its tranquility and natural beauty, Chhitkul is also famous for potato farming and trout fishing. The potatoes of this region are one of the best and costliest in the world. The Sangla valley from Sangla to Chhitkul, specially the villages of Rakchham, Batseri & Chhitkul, is a nature lovers paradise. One side of the road are the snow-clad mountains and the other side is full of orchards of fruits like apricots, peaches, chilgoza and apples dotted by wooden houses. The powerful goddess of Chhitkul is the only non-Buddhist deity to which respect must be paid by the Parikrama pilgrim