India

Travelers frequent Sikkim for its Instagram-worthy high altitude lakes, farms, and pine-wood forest hiking. It’s important to know what not to miss.

“The Yabgo dynasty ruled this area for 2,000 years,” the king says. The humble Yabgo Mohammad Khan Kacho rules over the buckwheat fields and quiet stone streets of Turtuk on the Ladakh’s Pakistan borderlands.

It all began with Tong Atchew, a tea trader from southern China who arrived in Kolkata in 1778. Today, that legacy clings on in one of India’s most dynamic cities.

From the treacherous Khardung La Pass to the idyllic Pangong Tso, Dave Stamboulis explores the many worlds of the Nubra Valley in Ladakh.

To the lover of all things North India, Glenburn Estate is a sanctuary of tea, peace, and an abiding history that defines the region.

It is terribly cold and some areas of Ladakh are impassable in the winter months, but there is one very good reason to go: the snow leopard.

October to March in Madhya Pradesh is an ideal place to couple the history of humanity with the endless diversity of life on the subcontinent.

“The two most important principles were prohibition of cutting of trees and protection of wildlife around us,” Khemkaran says. “And to this day the Bishnois adhere to them until death.”

Kashmir is one of the last final frontiers for travelers to India; get off the beaten track with these five lesser visited sites.

More like a cathedral than a train station, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus is one of India’s most fascinating places to see the many sides of Mumbai.

It’s a seven-day mountain bike race with a vertical gain of 50,000 meters through the Himalayas. It’s the Hero MTB Himalaya mountain bike challenge.

Jay Tindall has been shooting sadhus for more than two decades; down his lens, the varied faces of the holy men of Nepal and India tell tales.