Buy in Manali Keychains, name plates, etc which are customized to one’s own message are worth buying as mementos. Also one can get his name carved/written on a single grain of rice. One can also visit Manali Market to buy woolen stuff like sweaters, pull overs, shawls, blankets, etc. Hippie clothes/ jewellery can be found in Old Manali.
Fruit products, honey and apricot oil at Himcoop Juice Bar Manali are also something local produced in the valley. Jam from Himcoop taste like real fruit due to high contents of fruit pulp and apricot oil is good for joint pains and also general massage.
- Himalayan Snow Village, camping site, Raison, district Kullu (14 kms from Kullu on the Manali national highway), ? rahul mullick +919816252214. Himalayan Snow Village is primarily into hardcore trekking, camping, rafting and other adventure activities in the valley. Based in Raison, run by a non-governmental organisation the Himalayan Snow Village is also into village tourism with Malana as its pilot project.
- himalayan Snow Village (Himalayan Snow Village), Camping site, Kullu (14 kms from Kullu on Manali highway), Rahul Mullick +91 9816252214, Himalayan Snow Village is an initiative by Green Foundation for Drug Reforms and Environmental Protection in Himalayas, a non-profit voluntary organisation working on protecting the endangered ecology and saving people from drugs. For the last two decades or so Kullu-Manali aka the valley of the gods has been facing the dual problem of environmental degradation and of drugs especially the cannabis or charas as it is popularly known.
- Chingu. Local shops are aplenty selling chingus ( a type of blanket) claiming to be warm in winters and cold in summers. Be wary of these. They will show you parcel ready chingus. Do not fall prey to them.