10 Places In India That Look Straight Out Of A K-Drama

Some scenic destinations in India look like somebody location-scouted them for a scene where two people lock eyes, miss their train, heal childhood trauma, and kiss after eight episodes of emotional suffering. India has many such places! If K-dramas were ever remade in India, half the production budget could be saved by simply filming on location. Here are eight scenic destinations across the country that already have main-character energy—each perfectly paired with the K-drama it feels straight out of.

Scenic Indian Destinations That Feel Like K-Drama Filming Locations

1. Gulmarg, Kashmir × Crash Landing On You

Some places understand snow, but Gulmarg performs it.

High in Kashmir, Gulmarg turns winter into theatre with fir trees carrying white blankets, rooftops disappearing under powder, and roads softened into silence. Even people walking there somehow look more dramatic. It is one of India’s best-known ski towns and home to the Gulmarg Gondola, which climbs toward Apharwat Peak and opens into views that feel too charming to be real.

Which is exactly why it belongs with Crash Landing on You! That drama thrives on distance, danger, longing, and landscapes large enough to hold impossible love stories. Gulmarg has that same scale. Romance here would never be casual; it would involve staring across snowfall while piano music rises.

2. Munnar, Kerala × Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

The hills of Munnar are folded with tea plantations so neat they look hand-combed. Morning mist moves slowly over roads that curve like handwriting. The air smells cleaner here, and people talk more softly.

That is Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha territory, a show built on leaving noisy ambition behind and discovering that ordinary life can be rich, funny, warm, and surprisingly romantic.

Munnar has many versions of peace. There is Eravikulam National Park, where the endangered Nilgiri tahr roams. There is the Top Station with its sweeping valley views. Echo Point, where tourists yell into nature and nature politely sends it back. Mattupetty Dam is meant for boating, and the Tea Museum is for you if you want to understand how these hills shaped an industry!

3. Udaipur, Rajasthan × The King: Eternal Monarch

Some cities flex wealth, Udaipur seduces with it! 

Built around shimmering lakes and layered with palaces, courtyards, carved balconies, and marble details, Udaipur feels like a place where ordinary errands should require royal permission. Sunsets over Lake Pichola can make cynics sentimental.

So yes, The King: Eternal Monarch fits perfectly. That show deals in alternate worlds, polished grandeur, royal loneliness, and people with expensive coats making difficult decisions. Udaipur already has the set design.

Spend time at City Palace, still one of the most striking royal complexes in India. Take a boat on Lake Pichola to Jag Mandir. Watch the city turn gold from Sajjangarh Monsoon Palace. Explore Bagore Ki Haveli in the evening and wander the old city where tiny lanes suddenly open into grand views.

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4. Darjeeling, West Bengal × Goblin

Darjeeling has mastered the art of beautiful sadness! 

Mist drifts in without warning, old colonial buildings stand with certain dignity, and the toy train whistles through hills that seem permanently nostalgic.

Tea gardens roll away in green symmetry here, and everything looks like it remembers something!

That mood belongs to Goblin. Few shows turned weather into emotion the way it did. Loneliness, fate, immortality, yearning, all of it needs a place where clouds can enter dramatically on cue.

Wake early for Tiger Hill sunrise when Kanchenjunga glows pink. Ride the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, visit Batasia Loop, where engineering meets scenery. Stop by the Peace Pagoda, drink tea where it was grown and walk Mall Road in the cold and think thoughts you didn’t ask for.

5. Pondicherry × Our Beloved Summer

Pondicherry is what happens when a town decides aesthetics matter.

It has French-era facades painted in mustard, blue and blush pink. Bougainvillaea spilling over walls, scooters parked beside artisan cafés and sea breeze moving through White Town lanes; this defines Pondicherry. It is hard to rush here; the streets would take it personally.

That makes it a natural home for Our Beloved Summer, a romance about timing, memory, old feelings, and the dangerous possibility of meeting the right person twice.

Spend mornings walking the Promenade. Explore White Town on foot, visit Sri Aurobindo Ashram for calm and head to Auroville and see the Matrimandir surroundings. 

Find a café with slow coffee, and slower service and finally, end the day at Paradise Beach.

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6. Shillong, Meghalaya × Twenty-Five Twenty-One

Shillong feels young even when it rains! 

There is music everywhere, in cafés, cars, college corners, and late-night venues. Pine trees frame roads that twist through hills. Clouds descend so low they seem involved in local affairs. The city carries both energy and ache.

That’s why Twenty-Five Twenty-One belongs here. The show understood youth not as perfection, but as speed, mistakes, first dreams, and memories that sting later.

Visit Umiam Lake when the water looks like polished metal. See Elephant Falls, walk Ward’s Lake, and shop and snack around Police Bazaar. You can also drive to Laitlum Canyon for views that can silence a group chat. Stay long enough to hear live music after dark! 

Shillong is the kind of place people mention years later with a strange smile–IYKYK!

7. Valley Of Flowers, Uttarakhand × Extraordinary You

Some landscapes feel unrealistic; the Valley of Flowers is one of them.

Hidden in the Himalayas, this UNESCO-listed national park blooms seasonally with alpine flowers spread across meadows under towering peaks. It looks less like geography and more like an artist got carried away.

So naturally it pairs with Extraordinary You, where reality bends, characters question the script, and romance exists inside a heightened world.

Getting there requires effort; you will need to pass trekking routes, mountain weather and patience. But then the valley opens with its orchids, poppies, primulas and endless colour. Nearby Hemkund Sahib adds another powerful stop for many travellers.

You do not walk into the Valley of Flowers; you enter a different genre.

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8. Alleppey, Kerala × When The Weather Is Fine

Alleppey does not care about urgency! 

Backwaters weave through villages lined with coconut palms. Houseboats drift like thoughts, light hits the water differently every hour, and time loosens its grip.

That softness matches When the Weather Is Fine, a drama about retreat, emotional repair, and finding warmth in quiet company.

Stay overnight on a houseboat if possible. Take a smaller canoe into narrow village canals. Visit Vembanad Lake, head to nearby Marari Beach. Watch fishermen at dawn and listen to how silence sounds when water carries it.

Alleppey is where people go when they are tired of pretending they are fine.

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So, which of these scenic Indian destinations excited you the most?

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