SPILLING THE BEANS A coffee lover’s chronicle by Debashree Chatterjee Doesn’t matter if it’s the morning dose or the evening shot, coffee is the life line for most of us (if not all of us). I am sure you will agree that coffee plays saviour for an office-goer, who is late for the meeting; a [...]
Stok Kangri (6,123m) is the most popular mountain in Ladakh. Every year, hundreds of people from all over the world have tried to climb the 6,000er. But that over for now, because from now on further expeditions to the mountain are forbidden until further notice. Why all expeditions to Stok Kangri are closed Stok [...]
Bhutan has a lot of monastery and not-religious festivals to offer. It is difficult to choose among them all. Our advice: If you have the time/possibility, visit festivals in the off-season. They are very special because they have less foreign visitors. Also travelling in off-season is more cheap than in high season. If you [...]
Recently we decided to give away a seat in one of our most beautiful travels to Ladakh. So we started a Facebook-lottery. And today is the day and we chose the lucky winner in our private home. And who is the winner now? Are you excited to know whom we finally draw? Watch our [...]
If you always wanted to visit Ladakh but had no chance sofar, this might be your call. We started a lottery on our Facebook-Page and invite you to join, if you want to win a tour to Ladakh. You can win our Cultur & Hiking tour "Basics of Ladakh with Hemis-Festival" in July worth 1.400 [...]
Only recently we shared a post about how we don’t like to go around publicizing good deeds: Doing good the quiet way. Now we talk, and for a good reason. Girls from poor rural areas are the main targets of human traffickers. Photo: Nana Ziesche. Human trafficking is one of the biggest [...]
Like every year also 2017 will have it's cultural highlights which are really worth to be seen. To be able to plan already now your trip 2017 to Ladakh we put the most important dates together. Ladakh: Monastery festivals & and other important dates for 2017 Name of festival Venue 2017 Spituk Gustor Spituk [...]
Once a year, every monastery in Ladakh is celebrating with a festival. Most of the monastery festivals take place in the winter months – those are the ones we recommend visiting the most – but of course there is one or the other festival happening in summer. Dates for Monastery festivals 2016 Spituk Gustor [...]
