A quiet morning up the hill,
the pool by afternoon.
Yash Rock Hotel is in the Kangra valley below Dharamshala, a morning out and back from Norbulingka at Sidhpur. Rooms start at ₹999 a night, or ₹1,699 with air conditioning, and the pool, the restaurant and free parking are here when you get back.
On the way up, or the way down.
Norbulingka sits below Dharamshala, so it fits a morning on its own or a stop on the way to McLeod Ganj. Either way you come back down to the valley for the evening.
Tibetan art, being made.
Studios you can walk through — thangka painting, statue making, woodcarving — set in gardens that are the calmest place on the whole hillside, with the Seat of Happiness temple at the middle of them.
Check the institute’s own site for opening days before you go. Then come back down for the pool, which is open until six.
The short version.
What people ask first.
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Yes. It is at Sidhpur, below Dharamshala, so it is a morning out and back — or a stop on the way up to McLeod Ganj or on the way down.
Tibetan art being made: thangka painting, statue making and woodcarving in the studios, and the gardens and the Seat of Happiness temple around them. Check the institute's own site for opening days before you go.
Usually, yes. The gardens are the calmest place on that whole hillside, which is reason enough on its own.
Yes. The pool is open 9 am to 6 pm, included with a room, or ₹250 a person if you have only come for the day.
No. The Dalai Lama's temple is up in McLeod Ganj. Norbulingka is an institute for Tibetan arts at Sidhpur, below Dharamshala, named after the Dalai Lama's old summer palace in Lhasa.
The morning, if you want the pool as well. Norbulingka first, then back down to the water before it closes at 6 pm.
The rest of the hill.
Dharamshala and McLeod Ganj are further up, and there is a longer piece on the day that puts Norbulingka in it.