The Zanskar River cuts through one of Ladakh’s most dramatic landscapes, carrying rafters between sheer canyon walls, barren mountains and remote settlements that feel almost completely removed from the road network above. The scenery is stark and immense, with the river carving a narrow passage through the high-altitude desert before eventually meeting the Indus near Nimu. The
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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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The Knuckles Mountain Range feels far removed from the tropical image most travellers have of Sri Lanka. East of Kandy, the road gives way to mist-covered ridges, dense forest and small mountain villages, with trails disappearing into one of the island’s wildest highland landscapes. Paths climb from cultivated valleys into cloud forest, cross streams and grasslands, and emerge
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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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Cross from the lush Kullu Valley into the stark landscapes of Lahaul on one of Himachal Pradesh’s most dramatic Himalayan crossover treks.
Walk into a UNESCO World Heritage landscape filled with alpine flowers, waterfalls and Himalayan peaks in Uttarakhand’s spectacular Valley of Flowers.
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Take on the rapids of the Ganga through forested Himalayan foothills on India’s best-known white-water rafting adventure.
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