If you go on an Everest Base Camp trek, you’ll come across numerous prayer flags along the way: bright rectangles of cloth strung along mountain ridges and peaks or tied to sacred places.  In the often stark high altitude landscape, these bands of colour are stunning.  But what do they mean?

We’re always pleased to read about the experiences of travellers in and around the Annapurna Circuit, especially when they result in such a sense of accomplishment as described in this blog post on the Ottsworld blog. The feeling of achievement that overcoming a challenge on a trek, especially a personal challenge as described on the [...]

While on your Annapurna circuit treks you might find yourself wondering just who this Anna Purna is? The truth is that Annapurna wasn’t named after a person, but rather after Annapurna, the Hindu Goddess of nourishment. Anna means food or grains and the word purna means full or complete; we quite like the idea of [...]

Those on Bhutan treks during November may be able to enjoy the annual Black-Necked Crane Festival, if Gangtey Monastery is on their route.  Every winter the cranes return to the Phobjika Valley in Bhutan from their summer breeding spot across the Himalaya in Tibetan wetlands, remaining until February.  A festival is held while they are [...]