Community Homestay Network does exactly what it says on the tin. It provides accommodation in private homes in communities around Nepal. This accommodation by and large is simple, you stay with a family in their home and experience their daily lives. On the surface, this might not appeal to the more luxury traveller but we’ve
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Take a look at these pictures. These are all recent images of the ancient landscape of Bera in Rajasthan, where 850-million-year-old granite outcrops pierce the sky, as part of an extraordinary tale of coexistence that has played out for centuries. Here, the Rabari people – traditional pastoralists who believe they were created from Lord Shiva’s
Pre-social media, there were dinner party destinations. Places people traveled to seemingly just so they could drop the name at the next gathering. Back in the early 2000’s, when I was managing a luxury tour company in London, people would call and tell me they wanted to go to Bhutan. When I asked why, they
How do you cope, in these days of gross over tourism, with promoting fabulous new destinations that you discover and want to shout to the world about, but don’t want to see go the same way? I now see destinations I visited some 20-25 years ago which were extraordinary and my heart bleeds at what
Now before you read on, I’d like you to look at the pictures. Pictures of a stunning natural landscape that geologists have dated at over 850 million years old. A landscape that is known for its leopard population and is also home to hyena, sloth bear, blue bull, blackbuck, wild boar, jackal, fox and approx.