Our featured tour of the week is our Women-only Essence of India tourVaranasi is best known as the holy city on the Ganges. As well as being the holiest of holies for Hindu’s it is a city famous for Indian classical music. On any day around town, somewhere you’ll find a concert happening. Many foreigners come

Our featured tour of the week is our Women-only Essence of India tourIndia is home to hundreds of stepwells – storage water wells built with steps leading down to the water. An interesting feature of stepwells in India is that they were built predominantly to provide water but also, because they are often quite deep, they would provide relief

Our featured tour of the week is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Tour.One of my absolute favourite movies about India is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Movie. The Judi Dench and Maggie Smith starring British movie introduced a new India to millions of people – a more ‘real’ India not often portrayed in film and media – an India without the

Our featured tour of the week is the Upper Mustang jeep tour.Snow Leopards are vulnerable big cats found in the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. The worldwide population is estimated to be less than 9000. There are around 300-400 estimated to be in Nepal, some of which live in the hills of the Upper Mustang area

Our featured tour of the week is the Upper Mustang jeep tour.Mani walls are walls built of rubble and sand and faced with stone plates engraved with the Tibetan buddhist prayer ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’. The longest one in Nepal, at nearly 400m is just outside the village of Ghami heading north to Charang on the road to Lo

Our featured tour of the week is once again in Nepal. This time we’re highlighting the Upper Mustang jeep tour.On our jeep trip through Upper Mustang, we spend two acclimatisation nights in the village of Charang. Although Charang is the second biggest town in the region, with around 700 inhabitants, it’s not exactly a large place. It

The good old rickshaw is as much a part of India as is curry, and they are a feature of every city, town and village.They are so ubiquitous in India that I began wondering whether they were, in fact, an Indian invention?There are many theories as to where they came from, but the most widely accepted theory has