Nine days in Ladakh – Leh, Nubra, Pangong, Hanle and Tso Moriri – built around the mandatory two-day acclimatisation and the permit rule that replaced the Inner Line Permit.
A slow nine days in Ladakh: Leh, Nubra, the lakes and Hanle’s dark sky Read More »
Five days on the Odisha coast – Puri, Konark, Chilika and Bhubaneswar – including who can actually enter the Jagannath temple and what is left standing at Konark.
A slow five days in Odisha: Puri, Konark and the Chilika lagoon Read More »
Seven days in Sikkim – Gangtok, Tsomgo, North Sikkim and Pelling – with the permits you cannot get on the day and the airport that does not actually operate.
A slow week in Sikkim: Gangtok, North Sikkim and the Kanchenjunga dawns Read More »
Three days in Pondicherry – White Town, the Tamil quarter, Auroville and the beaches – plus why the winter season here is wetter than the guides admit.
A slow long weekend in Pondicherry: White Town, Auroville and the quieter beaches Read More »
Six days in the Khasi hills – Shillong, Sohra’s waterfalls, the Nongriat root bridge trek and the Umngot at Dawki – with the seasons and driving times worked out.
A slow week in Meghalaya: Shillong, Sohra, Dawki and the living root bridges Read More »
Chitrakote Falls travel guide: India’s widest waterfall in Bastar, Chhattisgarh – when it actually runs, how to get there from Raipur, and a simple two-day plan.
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★ Jagdalpur · Chhattisgarh Jagdalpur and the Bastar Haats: Weekly Markets, Bell Metal, and a Dussehra That Runs for Seventy-Five Days A practical guide to Jagdalpur — the base for everything in southern Chhattisgarh, and the town to plan around if you want to see a working village market rather than a craft fair put
Jagdalpur and the Bastar Haats: The Weekly Markets That Are the Point of Bastar Read More »
★ Sirpur · Chhattisgarh Sirpur: A Seventh-Century Brick Temple, and a Buried City Still Coming Out of the Ground A practical guide to Sirpur on the Mahanadi — the Laxman Temple, the tilted steps of Surang Tila, the Buddhist monasteries Xuanzang wrote about, and why this is the easiest great sight to reach in Chhattisgarh.
Sirpur: The Seventh-Century Brick Temple on the Mahanadi Read More »
★ Bhoramdeo · Chhattisgarh Bhoramdeo: Carved Stone Below the Maikal Hills, and Almost Nobody There A practical guide to Bhoramdeo near Kawardha — what the carving actually is, the two other temples in the complex that most visitors walk past, and why the Khajuraho comparison is both useful and misleading. Written byAshvinee UpdatedSeptember 2026 Reading
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★ Kanger Valley · Chhattisgarh Kanger Valley National Park: Limestone Caves, a Stepped Waterfall, and When the Gates Are Actually Open A practical guide to Kanger Valley in Bastar — the three cave systems you can walk into, Tirathgarh Falls, why the park shuts for the monsoon, and how to fit it around a night
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