A 7-day summer trip for mothers and their kids (10–15) in Zanskar, Ladakh. 15–21 May 2027, ex-Chandigarh. Five mothers, five kids, every detail taken care of.

In 2018, my brother and I rode a motorcycle out of Kota and didn't come home for 40 days. Most of those days were spent in Spiti. Not passing through it, not ticking it off. Actually living in it. We slept in family homes in Kibber. On the way in, we stayed in Chitkul long enough to teach at the village school. And in Mud and Kaza I sat with the village panchayats, listening to elders argue about grazing land, water turns and what the valley could and couldn't afford to lose.

You know? The relationships that last are the ones where they let you become a better version of yourself? Well that's my relationship with Sikkim because its hands down the 'safest' space one can be in - atleast once in a lifetime. My Sikkim Tale | Let's Explore Sikkim Naps at Gurudongmar is part of the privilege I read about Sikkim before I ever saw it — on a flight from Ahmedabad to Jaipur in 2010, in an old copy of Travel XP magazine that someone had left in the seat poc

I've walked out on a frozen river more times than I can count. Not for the photograph, not for the thrill everyone assumes it's about — because for most of my life in these mountains, that river was the only door out of Zanskar in winter. No road could survive that gorge. Barely five metres wide in places, walled in by cliffs climbing 600 metres straight up — there was never a question of a path along the bank. So when the Zanskar River froze hard enough to hold weight, usual

I've spent most of my adult life driving old trade roads, and I think it goes back to my first life as an architect — I've never been able to look at a road or a border post without asking who built it, and why there, and why like that. A mountain doesn't hand you a route. Someone surveys it, argues over it, sometimes bleeds for it, and only much later does it become the pretty thing you photograph from a car window. That curiosity is what took me across the Pashmina Route —

I spent eight years living in Sikkim before I ever thought of it as a subject to write about — long enough that it stopped being a place I was visiting and started being a place with its own memory, its own long list of things nobody had gotten around to telling me yet. Architecture trained me to ask what decision built any structure I stood in front of: a road, a monastery, a border post. Sikkim kept handing me a different kind of structure to ask that question about — a res

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Why the Pashmina Route Runs Through Checkpoints, Not Just Scenery A mountain pass used to be the only door between two worlds — cross it, or don't get in at all. Every one of the nine passes below had a check post, a toll, or an army watching it, because whoever held the pass held who came through. No permission, no passage — traders paid, pilgrims prayed, and armies fought, just to get their wool, salt or silk to the other side. Today, most of these same doors just have a si

#kargil1999 #centralasia #Silkroute #historyofkargil #thepashminaroute #travelwithkanupriya The Pashmina Route Journal Present Kargil Market Before Kargil became a name associated with war, it was a name associated with movement. Imagine Kargil a century ago: caravans arriving from Ladakh with wool and salt, traders coming from Lahaul and Punjab, Kashmir sending goods northwards, and routes towards Baltistan and Central Asia bringing carpets, stones, horses and stories from m

#silkrouteindia #triptoindia #thingstodoinmanali #foreigndevilsofthesilkroad #roadtriptozanskar #manalitokashmirbyroad #besttravelitineraryforladakh Gulshan Book Store, Srinagar I feel, book shops of a place really hold the pulse of the region. And, i reached the Gulshan Book Store in Srinagar, as soon as i landed in Kashmir for the first time of my life in 2021. My interest in regional history to orient myself better in the present context, lead me into a prompting conversat

#Silkroute #Silkrouteofindia #roadtriptoladakh #Manalitokashmir #manalitokashmirbyroad #Ladakhcircuit #zanskarfixeddeparture #ladakhfixeddeparture #thingstodoinmanali Route to Shinkula "If there's one thread, quite literally, that ties these four places together, it's wool. Not folklore, not religion, but the Old Silk Route trade. A goat in Tibet grew it, only a trader in Ladakh could buy it, a merchant in Kargil housed it, and a weaver in Srinagar spent a year and a half tur

#besthighwayofindia #bestdriveinindia #besthimalayandrive #silkrouteofindia #manalitokashmir #fixeddepatureladakh #ladakhfixeddeparture "This trip is more than just a Ladakh trip or a Kashmir trip! It is about understanding India by physically travelling on one of the Silk Trade roads that shaped it." - Your Trip Curator & Leader - Kanupriya If you are wondering what does the route look like :D If you've read The Pashmina Route — the story of the old wool trade that once sti

Michievious Bhutanese kid These are some facts that i too discovered slowly while travelling through Bhutan over and again. I am sure these will surprise you too! Try and guess - promise no cheating no googling before the reveal!! 7 Fun Facts About Bhutan You Probably Don't Know 1. What does Bhutan's national dish actually translate to? Every Bhutanese household eats this, daily, without exception. It's called Ema Datshi. Ema means chili. Datshi means cheese. That's it — that

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#bestofbhutan #traveltobhutan #festivalsofbhutan #experientialbhutan #guidedtourstobhutan #budgettriptobhutan Devoted monk at Punakha Dzong Kuzo Zangpo La! Every time I cross the border into Phuentsholing, I feel like I've stepped through a door into a slower, kinder version of time. I've been driving into Bhutan since 2016, and if you ask me why I keep going back with a fresh batch of travelers every single season, my honest answer is this: Bhutan doesn't perform for tourist

Luxe solo travel from Manali to Spiti — from buzzing Kaza to a one-home village. Glamp, explore, and unwind on this stylish, soulful Himalayan adventure.

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