Kasauni is also referred as the place where one can have a flavor of Darjeeling in Kumaon.Kasauni gives an uninterrupted view of a 365 km stretch of the Himalaya and at the dusk or dawn,one may sight a rory alpenglow on the snow capped peaks.Scores and Scores of wild flowers and ferns grow all over this region steeped in myths and folklore,where in the local imagination,the lines of the Katyuri kings mix freely with the Pandavas and the avatars of Goddess Durga.

Tourist attractions in Kasauni

Kasauni is known for its ashrams,nature walks and tea factories.One of the important place worth visiting is Anasakti Ashram ,it was built as a homage to Mahatma Gandhi,who fell in love with Kasauni and wrote his treatise Anasakti(detachment) Yoga here.The ashram has a reading room and a library,a prayer room with photographs from Gandhi’s life,and a small bookshop,and strict injunctions everywhere that the boarders attend the prayers and not treat the ashram as a tourist lodge,similarly one can also visit the Lakshmi ashram and Sumitranandan Pant Gallery.Kasauni is equally famous for its tea estates and gardens and is considered to be a walker’s and botanist’s paradise.