Where most first journeys begin, and where we still do our slowest work
The North
The North is Rajasthan in the cool months — late October through early March — and the lower Himalayas the rest of the year. Delhi anchors the arrival, Uttarakhand and Himachal offer the summer reprieve, and Punjab remains the region we send people to for langar at the Golden Temple and the quieter Doaba villages no one writes about. We avoid Rajasthan in May. We send clients to Kumaon instead.
Destinations · 10
Uttarakhand
Auli & Garhwal
The Garhwal high country — Auli, Joshimath, the Valley of Flowers — for travellers who want meadows and serious mountains in one trip.
Northern Plains
Banaras
The river, the lanes, and a city that has never paused.
Rajasthan
Bundi
A blue-painted hill town with a 14th-century palace nobody renovated, stepwells in residential lanes, and Kipling's old guesthouse still standing.
Himachal Pradesh
Dharamshala & McLeodganj
The Dalai Lama's town and the Dhauladhar foothills — for travellers who want a Tibetan Buddhist circuit without the Ladakh winter.
Rajasthan
Jaipur
The pink city, but seen through the families that built it.
Rajasthan
Jodhpur
The blue city, stepwells, and Mehrangarh against a desert sky.
Uttarakhand
Munsiyari & Kumaon
Kumaon's quieter side — Munsiyari, Binsar, the villages where Corbett wrote — for travellers who want forests and the Panchachuli range.
Rajasthan
Pushkar
A small lake town held together by a Brahma temple, fifty-two ghats, and a camel fair the rest of India has mostly forgotten how to read.
Rajasthan
Ranthambhore
Tigers against ruins. Crowded, and worth it for the right four days in March or April.
Garhwal Himalaya
Uttarakhand
High meadows, the Valley of Flowers, char dham in low season.
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