Travel Reads > India
• This hiker is mapping India’s ‘invisible’ trails—the ancient routes not found in any guidebook [Adventure]
“Speed hiker and trail mapper Manvendra Singh Shekhawat is on a mission to make India’s outdoors more accessible. And he’s doing so by digitally mapping the country’s ‘invisible’ trails—the routes used for centuries that aren’t in any guidebook.”
• When Bengal was the richest place in the world [Travels of Samwise]
“A Trip up the Hooghly River.”
• Visions of a Himalayan Kingdom [Wayfaring Hearts]
“High altitude, climate-positive trekking in Ladakh, India.”
• Conversations on the Shatabdi Express to Aurangabad, India [Intrepid Times]
• In photos: How is Kerala’s houseboating scene navigating its heavily touristed backwaters? [Adventure]
“For Adventure.com photo editor Nicola Bailey, cruising the Keralan backwaters on a houseboat has been a bucket list experience. Did it live up to the hype in reality?”
• Travel Diaries: Kochi to Marayoor [Reverie Travel Journal]
“A long drive, a new friend, car sickness and a local clinic.”
• Why people go to India and come back different [Never Quite a Local]
“(But not in ways they can explain).”
• ‘The intimate and the epic’: the best way to understand India is to travel by train [The Guardian]
“Being a passenger in this vast country is ‘a full-blooded immersion in the local’, says the novelist whose latest protagonist is lured by the romance of the rails.”
• The last yak herder of Ladakh [Noema]
“As glaciers melt and traditions fade, one man’s journey across Ladakh’s sacred pastures is a living archive of a disappearing way of life.”
• I was the first digital nomad in Yakten – here’s my guide to this quaint Sikkim village [Travel + Leisure]
“Experience slow living, community stays, and remote work from the mountains of Yakten, India’s first Digital Nomad Village in East Sikkim.”
• My City: Mumbai – an homage to the Indian metropolis [Roadbook]
“A local writer pens a love letter to the city she calls home, taking in its chaos, cool, and charismatic contradictions.”
• India’s guest houses, where the living await salvation — Varanasi, India [Eastside Asia]
• When places change [A Sense of Wander]
“I just spent a week in New Delhi, India. It is an annual ritual, a pilgrimage of sorts, this return to my soulplace. I find it restorative—and unsettling. The Delhi I fell in love with in 1993 is not the same Delhi today.”
• The fair at the edge of the desert [A Mind on the Move]
“Among horse traders, desert magicians, and jewelled camels, India reveals its irresistible, bewildering self.”
• The pull of India: a country I never wanted to visit, but can’t stop returning to [The Making of a Journey with Ilona Vinogradova]
“Radically kind Kashmir, the Syrian Christians of Kerala and the magnetism of Auroville.”
• Busing + boating Kerala’s backwaters [and by the way]
• India in transition: a journey through its new modernity [The Caravan & The Throne]
“Notes from a journey through a country balancing ancient traditions and an emerging modern society — reflections on development, generational change, and India’s transformation.”
• One of India’s greatest food cities is finally getting the global attention it deserves [CNN Travel]
“The Indian city of Lucknow has remained largely absent from global conversations about food. That’s finally changing thanks to recognition from UNESCO.”
