Hi there, Until now the weather has been great and the arrivals of the domestic tourists which have been consoling for the local economy as the preceding year had been complete lock down as all over the world. Experts believe about more the two hundred thousand domestic visitors arrived so far with the season beginning […]

Hi there, Really August ends today and we are in the romantic ‘Come September’ feel! Surprising many Marathi visitors are around and they are so excited about the place! These include average middle class ladies of course very bulky finding it rather not a pleasant thing that is the walk? But then that is what […]

Hi there, It is surprising that domestic visitors are still coming in numbers in spite of fading corona whims! Ladakh has this unique tourism combo of ‘Culture with Adventure’ in the form of traditional ‘Folk Dances and Songs’ also monastic ‘Mask Dances and Rituals’, Arts and Crafts and adventures by car safari and motor cycle […]

Hi there, Last few days the weather has been rather chiller especially in the morning and evening. The upper Ladakh around Indus valley is amidst harvesting of the agriculture crops. The sun too has been very hot and by end of this month the harvest would end up and weather receding towards Autumn. The farmers […]

Hi there, It’s already mid August, 15th August ‘Independence Day Celebration’, our ‘National Day’. Hundreds of thousands of people gave their life to regain independence. For the British we were their ‘Jewel in their Crown’ with their famous dictum ‘Sun never sets in the British Empire’ one of the most formidable colonial power during pre-1947. […]

Hi there, July went by so fast and the weather has been great and corona cases on the decline. Yet local people are very careful and are following the Covid appropriate norms which is rather very appreciative! There is rise in the arrival of the domestic tourists? They are hiring motor bikes and travelling within […]

Hi there, The tourism sector has picked up now and many of the commercial centers especially hotels and guests houses have opened to make best of this government induced ‘Unlock’ relaxation thus giving opportunity of making some quick bucks before the season ends by end of September also the stresses of looming third wave if […]

Hi there, The stories of the caravans in the high altitude region of Ladakh picked up during the reign of the four Maharajas of Jammu and Kashmir who being Maharaja Gulab Singh, Ranbir Singh, Partap Singh and Hari Sigh during the years 1834 to 1947 for about 113 years. This vocation was mostly carried out […]

Hi there, Though caravans where being engaged by the Europeans and western adventurers who were the dominant rulers of the period. And they were on their adventure and discovery of the world from the 17th century onwards and our regions were steeped in medieval era where modernity had not yet set in. One thing was […]

Hi there, Let me inform you that this part of the world had remained isolated for hundreds of years. In the ancient times there was no modern development it was considered to be a place of adventure and game in the 19th century. There was British residency in Kashmir valley that maintained the pedestrian path […]