Fall foliage in Asia
Beyond Japan and China lies autumn along the continent's old mountain roads: Turkey's Pontic Mountains, the Caucasus, Iran's Hyrcanian forests, and the Himalayan belt from Kashmir to Bhutan.
26 hand-picked fall stops in Asia (leaves & views, farms & harvest, towns & rides). Tap a 🍁 for its peak-color window, drag the date slider to watch the color arrive, or see every destination on the big map.
Pontic Mountains — Northern Turkey
Turkey
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Turkey's Black Sea range turns beech, oak and chestnut forests from the Kaçkar peaks down to the coast, one of the last major stands of Colchic mixed forest.
Georgia — Greater Caucasus
Georgia
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The Greater Caucasus rises straight from Georgia's valleys, turning Svaneti's birch and beech forests gold beneath still-snowy peaks while Kakheti's vineyards color the lowlands.
Armenia — Dilijan & Lesser Caucasus
Armenia
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Armenia's Lesser Caucasus forests peak around Dilijan and Lake Sevan, where oak, maple and hornbeam woodland turns against a backdrop of volcanic highland grassland.
Talysh — Azerbaijan Hyrcanian
Azerbaijan
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Relict Hyrcanian broadleaf forest hugs the Caspian shore, where chestnut-leaved oak, Persian ironwood, and hornbeam smolder amber and rust through November across Hirkan National Park and the Talysh Mountains near Lankaran.
South Korea
South Korea
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Maple and ginkgo set Korea's granite mountains ablaze each October, with Seoraksan traditionally first to turn before color sweeps south to Naejangsan and Jeju.
Himachal & Uttarakhand
India
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Deodar forests and alpine meadows across Himachal and Uttarakhand turn color as apple orchards ripen, from Manali and Shimla's hill-station forests to the Valley of Flowers.
Nepal Himalaya
Nepal
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Rhododendron and oak forests color Nepal's middle hills each autumn beneath the world's highest peaks, with clear post-monsoon skies making October prime season for trekking and color.
Bhutan
Bhutan
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Blue pine and rhododendron forests turn across Bhutan's steep valleys each autumn, with clear skies revealing Himalayan peaks above dzongs and maple-lined river gorges.
Top fall stops in Asia
26 hand-picked places across 8 regions, by what you go for.
Leaves & views
- Kaçkar Mountains National ParkNational park · Typically Oct 8–Oct 21
- Dilijan National ParkNational park · Typically Sep 1–Oct 24
- Hirkan National ParkNational park
- Naejangsan National ParkNational park
- Hidimba Devi Temple & Dhungiri Van ViharForest
- Sagarmatha National Park (Namche Bazaar)National park
- Taktsang Trail (Tiger's Nest), Paro ValleyTrail
- Yedigöller (Seven Lakes) National ParkNational park · Typically Oct 15–Nov 15
- Truso ValleyTrail
- Sevanavank Monastery, Lake SevanViewpoint · Typically Sep 20–Oct 15
- Seoraksan National ParkNational park
- Great Himalayan National ParkNational park
- Langtang Valley (Kyanjin Gompa)Trail · Typically Sep 1–Oct 31
- UzungölLake
- Tatev MonasteryViewpoint
- Nami IslandGarden
- Poon HillViewpoint · Typically Oct 1–Oct 31
- Phobjikha Valley (Gangtey)Forest · Typically Oct 23–Nov 21
- Chopta-Tungnath TrailTrail · Typically Oct 1–Oct 31
- Barun Valley, Makalu Barun National ParkNational park
- Chele La PassViewpoint