Collections · People, not just places
Living crafts and distinct cultures
Routes built around a living tradition or a community that keeps the world at arm's length — pit-loom weavers, fresco towns, a Russian painter's estate, and the Balti, Brokpa and Malana villages with their own languages and rules.
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Delhi to Chanderi
Chanderi, on the Malwa–Bundelkhand border in Madhya Pradesh, is a walled town under the hilltop Kirti Durg fort — a place of carved gates (the Khooni…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Shekhawati
Shekhawati is a cluster of dusty market towns in northern Rajasthan where 19th-century Marwari merchants covered their havelis — courtyard mansions — in painted…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Tal Chhapar & Churu
Tal Chhapar, in the Churu district, is a flat saline grassland sanctuary — a rare patch of open savanna in the Thar's fringe, thick with blackbuck, and a…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Naggar Castle & the Roerich Estate
Naggar, on the quiet left bank of the Kullu valley, was the old capital of the Kullu rajas.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Rann of Kutch
The Great Rann of Kutch is a seasonal salt marsh the size of a small country in western Gujarat — underwater in the monsoon, then dried to a blinding white…
Best Nov–Feb
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Turtuk & the Nubra-Shyok Villages
Turtuk, at the far end of the Nubra valley near the line with Pakistan, is a Balti village — stone-and-timber lanes, water channels, apricot and walnut…
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Aryan Valley (Dha-Hanu)
On the lower Indus below Leh, past Khaltse where the river turns toward Pakistan, a handful of villages — Dha, Hanu, Biama, Garkone — are home to the…
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Malana
Malana, in a hanging side-valley above the Parvati, is one of the most insular villages in the Himalaya — it runs its own council in the name of the deity…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Hanol & the Mahasu Devta Temple
Hanol, on the Tons river where Uttarakhand meets Himachal, is the seat of the Mahasu Devta — four brother-deities of the Jaunsar-Bawar and Trans-Giri highlands.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
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