Western Himalayas Trips & Tours

From a plane window, you’ll spot almost every landscape imaginable as you swish over the Western Himalayas. Extending from Afghanistan and all across northern India (above Delhi and to the west of Nepal), stark desert-scapes gives way to grassy valleys, lofty peaks emerge from grassy foothills and of course, there’s a good smattering of snow-clad mountains too. But the scenery isn’t the only reason you venture north. These lands have long been a focus of worship and religious ritual, and the spiritual magnitude in the Buddhist enclave of Ladakh is enthralling, as are the temples, festivals and ashrams of the holy cities. Tea plantations, hill stations and quaint villages are poignant remnants of a bygone era and the foothills, aside from offering some of the best trekking in the world, reveal a serene, rural way of life, unchanged for centuries.