Author: Saurav Mehra

Just a four-kilometre trek above Malana village — itself one of the Parvati Valley’s most…

Four of the five Panch Kedar temples close each winter under heavy Himalayan snow —…

Few valleys in India border quite as much contested and remote geography at once as…

At roughly 13,000 feet, Thangu is the last inhabited settlement before the road climbs another…

Tawang Monastery is the largest in India and the second-largest in the world after Lhasa’s…

Shaped deliberately like a ship and set across roughly 7.5 acres of gently sloping land…

The Sharavathi River does something dramatic partway through its journey to the Arabian Sea —…

At dawn, before the day’s light fully settles in, Shangarh’s cedar-ringed meadow reveals what draws…

Seen from a distance or from above, this Sahyadri valley genuinely forms the shape of…

Deep inside Spiti’s cold desert, where barley and green pea fields turn a brief, startling…