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A cold desert valley of thousand-year-old monasteries, fossil villages and some of the highest inhabited settlements in the world.

From orchard villages and forest walks to high passes and cold deserts, Himachal covers the widest range of Himalayan travel in one state.

Easy international travel with island time, northern hill towns and one of the world's great food cultures.

Cliffside monasteries, volcanic landscapes and a café culture that makes Yerevan one of the easiest small capitals to love.

A cold desert of ochre ridges, Buddhist monasteries and lakes that change colour by the hour. Ladakh is India's most cinematic road-trip landscape.

Teahouse trekking, Kathmandu's temple squares and lakeside Pokhara — the most accessible big-mountain travel in the region.