In the forests of Chandrapur, Maharashtra, Tadoba–Andhari feels stripped back to the essentials: teak, bamboo, red earth and water. The Andhari River threads through the reserve, while Tadoba and Kolsa lakes interrupt the dry deciduous forest with pockets of open water—places where the landscape, and often its wildlife, gathers during the hotter months. The Bengal tiger may be Tadoba’s most
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The Sun Koshi is less a rafting trip than a journey across Nepal by river. From Dolalghat, the water carries you east through deep valleys, forested gorges and increasingly remote country, with roads and settlements gradually giving way to sandy beaches and long stretches of wilderness. Over roughly 270 kilometres, calm water is broken by powerful Grade IV–V rapids, named Meat
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Cycling through Sikkim is a journey shaped by elevation. Roads rise sharply from the Teesta Valley into forested hills, tracing endless switchbacks past cardamom plantations, monasteries and small mountain settlements. Climbs are long and persistent, descents quick and twisting, and mist can roll across the road without warning. But the reward comes whenever the forest breaks open:
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The Kathmandu Valley Rim offers a side of Nepal’s capital that is easy to miss from the city below. Beyond the traffic and temple squares, rough backroads climb into forested hills, terraced farmland and quiet villages, with the Kathmandu basin gradually falling away behind you. Routes around Shivapuri, Kakani, Nagarkot and Dhulikhel mix sustained climbs with fast descents, dirt
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Just beyond Kohima, steep forest trails rise into a landscape of rolling green folds, bamboo-covered slopes and clear mountain streams. In summer, the valley is scattered with wildflowers, including the rare Dzükou lily, found only in this region. Dzükou itself sits at roughly 2,450 metres, a broad, quiet basin where trails disappear between grassy ridges and low
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The Manaslu Circuit begins in the deep valleys of the Budhi Gandaki and gradually climbs into one of Nepal’s most dramatic high-altitude landscapes. The trail threads through forest, suspension bridges and stone villages before reaching a colder, more austere world of monasteries, yak pastures and snow-covered peaks. As the route moves through Namrung, Lho and Samagaon, the presence
The Langtang Valley Trek follows a deep Himalayan valley north of Kathmandu, beginning in dense forest before gradually opening into a landscape of yak pastures, stone villages and high alpine country. One day the trail is enclosed by bamboo and rhododendron, the next it is running beneath snow-covered peaks. Beyond Langtang Village, the valley broadens dramatically as the
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The Kashmir Great Lakes Trek moves through a landscape that feels almost too composed to be real—broad alpine meadows, high passes and a succession of glacial lakes tucked beneath rugged Himalayan ridges. Beginning in the Sonamarg region, the trail climbs quickly away from the road and into open country where each day brings a noticeably different valley.
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There are few Himalayan trails where the mountains remain with you for quite as long as they do on the Sandakphu–Phalut Trek. The route follows the high Singalila Ridge, slipping between India and Nepal through rhododendron forests, small mountain settlements and long stretches of open ridge. On a clear morning at Sandakphu, the enormous Kanchenjunga massif forms the celebrated Sleeping
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Explore the forests and backwaters of Kabini in search of elephants, tigers, leopards, wild dogs and extraordinary birdlife.
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