Wherever you travel in the Himalayas – from the streets of Lhasa in Tibet to a Mera Peak trek in Nepal – you are likely to find prayer wheels in temples: barrel-shaped, sometimes brightly painted and other times plain metal, with Tibetan writing circling around them.  There are several types of prayer wheels, ranging in [...]

Lhasa is a major destination on almost all Tibet holidays and it has a lot to offer visitors, from the magnificent Potala Palace to the sacred Jokhang Temple.  If Lhasa is the first high-altitude stop on your itinerary, you’ll probably be taking a slow pace around the city’s sights – but try to make it [...]

Using an Annapurna trek as an example i.e Annapurna Circuit or Annapurna Sanctuary, the day begins soon after dawn, with a cup of tea or coffee brought to your bed.

The summer months in Nepal form the monsoon season and we therefore don’t recommend trekking at that time of year unless you enjoy lots of rain, cloudy skies and slippery trails! The only advantage of going on an Everest Base Camp trek in the summer is that you will virtually have the trail to yourself.

We get lots of queries from people who are heading off to Nepal for the first time to do an Annapurna trek or to go Everest trekking,  as well as from those who’ve got the bug and are looking to go back for more. So, we thought we’d reveal the top five questions that come [...]