Our Bhutan treks and tours are organised wherever possible to coincide with one of the country’s important religious festivals. These are colourful events with music and masked dancers and attract hundreds of people. Similar ancient ceremonies also used to take place in Lhasa in Tibet, but now only in the isolated Kingdom of the Thunder [...]

Steve Berry, Mountain Kingdoms MD, describes his experience in Bhutan, trekking the full length of Bhutan’s mountains on the Complete Lunana Snowman trek, something only a handful of westerners have ever achieved.

David Spear, explains why he loves to travel and the types of trekking holidays he has been lucky to participate in.
People sometimes ask me why I travel - I explain to them that it is in my blood.  My two great grandfathers opened up different parts of the world in their time, just as I [...]

I went on a trekking holiday to Kazakhstan, for the first time recently which was a truly amazing adventure.  The group ended up on a glacier in Kyrgyzstan and, during the journey, a 72-year-old client and I ended up stark naked having a bath in a glacial river. We were rosy-cheeked at tea time! The [...]

Here is part two of Kev Reynolds blog post about trekking in The Himalayas. Kev Reynolds is author of 47 books, including a series of guides to major Nepal trekking routes. He has trekked in Europe, Africa and South America, and made 18 treks in the Himalaya, and is an occasional trek and tour leader [...]

Kev Reynolds is author of 47 books, including a series of guides to major Nepal trekking routes. He has trekked in Europe, Africa and South America, and made 18 treks in the Himalaya, and is an occasional trek and tour leader for Mountain Kingdoms.  Read his post about his love of trekking in The Himalayas.