A detailed guide on how to get to Zanskar Valley in North India, including how to travel from Leh to Padum by public transport.
What you need to know about travelling to India
India is the most intoxicating, mesmerising, overwhelming and rewarding country I’ve ever been. Although it’s a relatively popular place to go, there is still a lot of apprehension about travelling to India, especially for first-timers and solo female travellers. After spending nine months in India over three different trips, I’ve decided to put together this …
Travel Guide for exploring Ladakh and Spiti
North India is home to perhaps some of the most spectacular and awe-inspiring landscapes known to man. It is something straight out of a traveller’s fairytale with high altitude barren deserts, snow capped mountain ranges, fluorescent blue lakes, ancient Buddhist monasteries, epic road trips, remote villages and friendly people. There’s nothing more you could possibly want for an adventure. Here’s my experience and guide to exploring the regions of Ladakh and Spiti.
Zanskar Valley: one of the last frontier’s for true adventure
It seemed that every stunning photograph I happened to see in Leh in the windows of travel agencies or on the screen inside the Tourist Information Office belonged to a place called Zanskar Valley. So it was a place that became etched into my brain, and I knew I needed to get there myself somehow. …
Trek report: Markha Valley
Known as one of the most popular and beautiful treks in Ladakh, I decided to hike the Markha Valley during my time in Leh. Popular because it’s easily accessible, the trail is not difficult to navigate and it’s one of the few multiday treks in the region that can be done entirely with homestays, rather …
Aru Valley: Kashmir’s hidden mountain gem
Srinagar left me feeling like I needed to explore Kashmir a bit more instead of going straight to Ladakh, and so I headed to Aru Valley, a place not even mentioned in my guidebook. I’d hardly seen anywhere so green in my life, and it appeared like a landscape that belonged more in Switzerland than anywhere near India.
Srinagar: the contested jewel in Kashmir’s crown
The city had been exactly what I had imagined it to be and more; it was completely different to anything else I had seen on the subcontinent, the people were full of colourful and passionate conversation and the lake was truly beautiful with the background of the Himalayas faded under haze. Yet, I’d felt much safer than I perhaps thought I would, the media always driving a particular fear of certain places, and in fact, after I left I found myself telling people, “Go to Srinagar and spend time there,” because only then can you truly understand it… Read about my time in Srinagar, Kashmir.
Crossing the India-Nepal border at Panitanki-Kakarbhitta
My experience and guide to crossing the India-Nepal border at Panitanki-Kakarbhitta or the eastern side near Darjeeling.
Exploring Mizoram and Tripura: a travel guide
Mizoram and Tripura are often clumped together, not because they’re much alike, in fact they’re actually very different. However, they are both the least accessible and therefore, least explored states in the Northeast region and both get very few visitors, rarely any foreigners. So here’s a travel guide to exploring the two states and all the information you need to see them for yourself.
Crossing the Myanmar-India border
How to cross the Myanmar-India border at Tamu/Moreh border crossing.
Sikkim: travelling where nature smiles
After dismissing the northwest of India because of the cold and snow at this time of year, I decided to explore the northeast instead. It wasn’t just the slightly better weather that appealed to me though, it was also the fact that it is the most underexplored area in India and government restrictions on foreign travellers still remain. My first state in the Northeast was Sikkim, one of the least populated states in India and famous for being home to the third tallest mountain in the world.