Finding my ‘enough’ inMuktinath DEOTARA B takes a solo journey from Pokhara to Muktinath, and once the excitement and apprehension wears off, realises that the journey is not a holiday but a quiet return for her. A journey through wind, stone and thinning comforts, into a Himalayan silence that strips travel of performance and turns movement into remembering.

A Trail To Remember An 8 day trek to Goecha La in Sikkim Goecha La trek located within the Khangchendzonga National Park includes a unique diversity of plains, valleys, lakes, glaciers and spectacular, snow-capped mountains covered with ancient forests, including the world’s third highest peak, Mount Khangchendzonga. The park is home to nearly half of India’s bird diversity, wild trees, orchids and Rhododendrons and one third of the country's flowering plants.

Join RAMAN MOHORA on a walk through Mehrauli, the first of Delhi’s many stories. The relaxed walking pace allows one to pause and stumble over the many monuments, memories, and complexities that tell poignant stories and teach important lessons. Delhi is best explored at a walking pace. For a few fleeting weeks every year - those brief interludes we call spring and autumn, before the city swings from furnace to smog - the city permits some flânerie. In those weeks, I walk.

Tsultrim, a doctor in Sikkim, and also a pious Buddhist, was in Sri Lanka with her mother recently. She shares that the island nation offered a completely different, and refreshing holiday, the shopping and calm adding to the delight of making a pilgrimage which, until less than a decade ago, would have been impossible to even consider given the red tape and costs involved.

India and South Asia’s passenger air traffic will rise an average of 7% annually over the next 20 years, spurred by a growing middle class, economic growth and airport and connectivity investments, Boeing said recently. That demand for air travel means airlines will need nearly 3,300 new airplanes by 2044 as projected in the company’s Commercial Market Outlook (CMO) for South Asia.

Nepal has emerged as the world’s most “nature-connected” nation, ranking first in a global study that examined how people in 61 countries relate to the natural world. According to the study, published in the journal Ambio and cited by The Guardian, Nepal leads the list, followed by Iran, South Africa, Bangladesh and Nigeria. Other countries in the top ten include Chile, Croatia, Ghana, Bulgaria and Tunisia.

That Bhutan is a kingdom transformed into a premier, high value, low-impact Himalayan tourist destination is known. So it does come as a surprise that the award of Best Leading Heritage Destination awarded to the Himalayan kingdom at the South Asian Travel Awards (SATA) 2025 in Sri Lanka recently was the first recognition of the country at the event. Following this recognition, there is much expectation among the tourism stakeholders in the country. The Hotel and Restaurant A

The light is uncompromising here— silver at dawn, blinding at noon, molten at dusk; and it reveals a country built not just on sand, but on coral stone mosques, painted wooden doors, and jetties that stitch island to island in quiet defiance of the sea.

There are cities where time moves forward, where new neighbourhoods replace old settlements, where skylines rise in places where memory once stood. And then there are cities where time itself comes to a standstill, where time settles, folding centuries into dense layers of history. In South Asia, some urban spaces predate the idea of nations so completely that modern borders feel like temporary arrangements. These cities were alive before flags, before passports, before the