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Our adventure begins. We depart Australia bound for Kolkata and its tropical warmth. Locals are known to keep cool in style wearing traditional white kurtas, collarless cotton shirts that make the most of the breezes blowing in from the Bay of Bengal. We arrive late i...
Today, we dive headlong into Kolkata’s juxtaposition of British colonial buildings and raucous street life. Our guide takes us to the Victoria Memorial, where 25 galleries display portraits and relics of Queen Victoria’s reign. At St Paul’s Cathedral, marvel at its In...
Our flight takes us to Bagdogra, a town in the Darjeeling district. A road journey then brings us to our destination, located in the lesser Himalayas. Darjeeling is incredibly picturesque but, at 2,042 metres in altitude, a mere foothill in the Himalayas. Rolling hill...
Our full day in Darjeeling begins with a choice of Your World experiences. In the afternoon, we call in at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, the Himalayan Zoological Park, the Tibetan Refugee Self-Help Centre and a tea plantation to see famed Darjeeling tea being picked and processed.
After an early breakfast at the hotel we leave for Phuntsholing, a border town in Southern Bhutan. Though India is only a stone's throw away, the mood and vibe of this town is decidedly different. We check in to Hotel Druk before setting off to explore. Our destinati...
The incredible rugged geography of Bhutan is on show today as we undertake a scenic drive to Thimphu. The mostly uphill journey leaves the tropical lowlands for pine forests and steep slopes with plunging ravines. Thimphu retains a rustic air and the spiritual informs...
Today, Thimphu’s main sites draw our attention. The National Memorial Chorten, honouring their third king, is part of many people’s daily worship. We linger for a while, watching its steady stream of visitors come and go. Then it’s on to the National Library and the I...
This morning, we see more of the country’s spectacular landscapes as we drive from Thimphu to Punakha. We steadily gain altitude towards the Dochula Pass. If the weather is clear, look northeast to see the eastern Himalayas and Gangkhar Puensum mountain. At 7,570 metr...
The National Museum of Bhutan, located in Paro’s Ta Dzong watchtower is our first stop of the day. A cultural museum, it houses some of the finest examples of Bhutanese art. After the museum, we move on to our next stop, Rinpung Dzong. Built in 1644, it houses the dis...
When shrouded in cloud, the sacred Taktsang monastery, or Tiger’s Nest, built into vertical cliffs 900 metres above Paro Valley, paints a beautifully melancholic picture. According to legend, Guru Padmasambhava, the guardian deity of Bhutan, meditated here for three y...
We depart Paro and fly to the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu. The city is the centre of Nepali history, art and culture, and is a place of riotous colour and sound. Our home for the next two nights is the Hyatt Regency Hotel. In the afternoon, we visit Boudhanath Stupa, ...
Start the day spectacularly with a once-in-a-lifetime flight over Mt Everest, the mountain to top all mountains. Soak in views of Lhotse, Makalu and the countless other peaks populating the horizon. Exhilarated by our morning, we now explore Kathmandu’s surroundings, ...
This morning, we board a short flight to Bharatpur. On arrival, we drive to Royal Chitwan National Park, whose name means ‘heart of the jungle’. Within it, you’ll find one-horned rhinoceroses, deer, monkeys and the occasional leopard and Bengal tiger. Explore the area...
Spend the morning in our resort. The day continues with an unbelievably scenic drive to Pokhara. Along the way, we admire the Nepali countryside and pretty villages perched on rolling hillsides. We stop for lunch at an authentically local riverside restaurant. In Pokh...
Start the day with one of these eye-opening Your World experiences, all of which allow you to take in breathtaking views of Pokhara.Lunch is at a local restaurant before a visit to the Bindebasini Temple, one of the holiest places for Hindus in Nepal. The afternoon ta...
We return to Kathmandu by plane this morning. If the clouds co-operate, we have magnificent views of Annapurna. When we arrive, we check in once again to the Hyatt Regency. In town, we visit Kathmandu Durbar Square. Nearby is the house of the Kumari Devi, a young girl...
Lhasa is an otherworldly place. Set in the centre of the Tibetan Plateau, it is surrounded by mountains over 5,000 metres in height. The red and white Potala Palace rises above the old city, where traditional Tibetan life continues as it has for over a thousand years....
Today we head to the Jokhang Temple, the most sacred in Tibet. The temple is encircled by Barkhor Street, which pilgrims circumambulate in a clockwise direction as part of their worship. The street is a bustling place and incongruously, a major marketplace with trader...
This morning, Potala Palace’s magnificence demands our immediate attention. Once the residence of the Dalai Lama, it contains over 1,000 rooms, 10,000 shrines and 200,000 statues. Its interiors are covered in rich, colourful carvings, gilding, sacred paintings and emb...
On this journey, we have explored magnificent parts of the world often hidden from outsiders. We wake to one final morning in Lhasa before our trip ends.
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