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Shakti Prana
Kumaon, Uttarakhand, India · Shakti Himalaya · High Luxury
Shakti Prana can only be reached on foot: a 30-minute steep climb or a gentler 50-minute walk to 7,000 feet in Kumaon. Opened in October 2025, its seven suites were built from stone salvaged when Shakti Himalaya dismantled 360 Leti in 2024 and hauled the rock 2,700 feet up a goat path by mule train. Floor-to-ceiling windows face Nanda Devi and the Panchachuli range. TIME put the lodge on its World's Greatest Places 2026 list.
- 7 rooms
- Opened 2025
- Neighborhood: Bageshwar
- Architect: Sam Barclay (Case Designs)
About Shakti Prana
- Arrival is on foot only: a 30-minute steep climb or a gentler 50-minute walk. There is no vehicle drop at the door.
- When a road reached celebrated sister lodge 360 Leti, Shakti dismantled it stone by stone in March 2024. Those stones were mule-carried 2,700 feet up a goat path to build Prana.
- Architect Sam Barclay of Case Designs, formerly site manager at Leti, laid out seven solar-powered suites (six one-bed, one two-bed) with wood-burning fireplaces.
- Founder Jamshyd Sethna launched Shakti Himalaya in 2004 as walking journeys between restored village houses across Kumaon, Sikkim, and Ladakh.
- TIME named Shakti Himalaya Prana Lodge one of the World's Greatest Places of 2026. Robb Report listed it among the 50 Greatest Hotels on Earth.
Awards
- Condé Nast Traveler Hot List (2026)
- Robb Report 50 Greatest Hotels on Earth (2026)
- TIME World's Greatest Places (2026)
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