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Experience
Mount Kailash
The sacred 52-km circumambulation trek around the base of the mountain.
Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh
Prime safari zones for tigers and barasingha across sal forest and meadows.
Viewpoint
The expansive open grassland area inside the core zone, famous for spotting massive herds of the rare hard-ground Barasingha deer.
Hidden Gem
Varkala Beach, Kerala
A scenic coastal spot 6 km north where a quiet backwater lake meets the sea, split beautifully by a beach highway.
Attraction
Lonavala & Khandala, Maharashtra
Ancient 2nd-century BCE Buddhist caves housing a colossal rock chaitya prayer hall with masterfully preserved original timber rib arches.
Tarkarli (Malvan), Maharashtra
The scenic junction where the Karli river loops into the sea, popular for luxury houseboats and dolphin tracking tours.
Devbagh & Tarkarli Sangam, Maharashtra
The confluence sandbar where river and sea meet.
Zanskar Valley, Leh & Ladakh
The largest Buddhist monastery complex in Zanskar, cascading beautifully down a steep rocky mountain slope above Padum.
Food
Kasol, Himachal Pradesh
The buzzing main-market strip famous for Israeli and global backpacker food, bakeries and bonfire lounges.
Kedarnath, Uttarakhand
The ancient stone Jyotirlinga temple of Lord Shiva amid snow peaks.
Spiti Valley (Kaza), Himachal Pradesh
Spiti's largest monastery, a thousand-year-old fort-like complex perched at 4,166 m.
A ledge off the old highway looking across at Duke's Nose, with the ghat railway climbing the far wall. Best in the monsoon when the falls opposite are running, and busy every weekend.
Kodachadri, Karnataka
The grassland summit with the Sarvajna Peetha shrine and panoramic cloud-sea sunrise views.
Tso Moriri, Leh & Ladakh
A steep path up the ridge behind Korzok, and from the top you see the whole length of Tso Moriri at once, which you cannot from the shore. A hard twenty minutes at 4,500 metres.
An ancient multi-century old Buddhist monastery overlooking the lake, serving as the cultural heart for the local nomads.
Accommodation Area
Gokarna, Karnataka
A wide, expansive sandy bay located just a short walk over the ridge from the town, famous for yoga retreats and sunset dining.
Market
Thekkady (Periyar), Kerala
A street of spice shops at the Tamil Nadu border, where quality varies enormously. Buy cardamom by smell rather than by label, and be sceptical of anything sold cheaply as vanilla or saffron.
Tosh, Himachal Pradesh
A short, scenic uphill trek from Tosh to the meadow hamlet of Kutla, popular for camping.
Auli, Uttarakhand
A higher, emptier meadow beyond Gorson, twelve kilometres out and a full day there and back. Nothing on the way, so carry water and food.
Chandratal Lake, Himachal Pradesh
A flat walk of roughly two and a half kilometres right round the lake, worth taking slowly at this altitude. The water reads a different colour from each side depending on the light.
Long Island (Andaman), Andaman & Nicobar Islands
A secluded white-sand bay reached by boat or jungle trek.
Around 4,400 metres, with a gilded Buddha above the houses and marine fossils in the ground — this was seabed before the Himalaya rose. Children will bring you ammonites to buy. Taking fossils out of India is restricted, so think before you do.
Leh, Leh & Ladakh
Pedestrianised, so it is the one street in Leh you can walk without watching for traffic. The row of Ladakhi women selling vegetables off the pavement is the real market; the pashmina shops behind need bargaining, and not all of them are selling pashmina.
Nine storeys, built in the early 1600s on the model of the Potala and abandoned in the 1840s. The inside is largely empty and dark, so carry a torch. It is the roof and the view down over the old town that earn the ticket.
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