Journeys

Six ways into India.

Two among the Himalayan shrines, two through the palace cities, two into the deserts. Each one private, and none of them in a hurry.

Sacred India

Two temples at the end of the road, opened by the season and closed by the snow.

Garhwal Himalaya

The Temple in the Snow

A thousand-year-old shrine at 11,755 feet, reached on foot, and sealed under snow for half of every year.

5 days · May – October

Garhwal Himalaya

The Last Town Before Tibet

A brightly painted temple on a glacial river, three miles from the Tibetan border and the end of the Indian road.

4 days · May – November

Palaces built on water, forts built on ridgelines, and a courtly imagination that never quite ended.

Mewar, Aravalli Hills

The City on the Water

A palace city built around three artificial lakes, ruled by the same family since the eighth century.

4 days · October – March

Dhundhar, Eastern Rajasthan

The City Built to a Plan

A grid city laid out in 1727 by an astronomer-king, and a UNESCO World Heritage site in its entirety.

4 days · October – March

Two deserts — one of golden sand, one of cold rock at fifteen thousand feet.

Thar Desert

The Fort That Is Still a Town

One of the last living forts on earth — three thousand people inside the walls — rising out of the Thar in yellow sandstone.

4 days · November – February

Trans-Himalaya

The Middle Land

A cold desert between the Himalaya and Tibet, where villages sit at 15,000 feet and the sky is dark enough for the galaxy to cast a shadow.

9 days · June – September

These six are where we are strongest, not the limit of where we go. Tell us what you are actually looking for and we will build it.