Lakes, waterfalls, valleys, deserts and everything the landscape does best.
18 places
Must visit
A converted rice barge with a bedroom, a cook and a deck, cruising Vembanad's canals and mooring…
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A 134 km endorheic lake at 4,350 m straddling the India–China line, changing from turquoise to deep…
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A rowing boat from Assi to Manikarnika at first light — the single best way to understand how the city…
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The artificial lake at the heart of the city, best experienced from the water an hour before sunset…
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A high valley over Khardung La with sand dunes, double-humped Bactrian camels and a 32-metre Maitreya…
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The 9.02 km tunnel under the Rohtang massif, opened in 2020, that drops you into the barren Lahaul…
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The express boats that run up and down the river all day — the cheapest and best way to see Bangkok…
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A four-tier, 310-metre waterfall on the Mandovi at the Karnataka border, reached by forest jeep and…
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The best thing to do in Munnar costs nothing: walk a plantation road at dawn through waist-high tea…
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A three-hour state ferry across Vembanad Lake and up the canals, through exactly the same landscape as…
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An 1854 tea garden within walking distance of town, where you can watch plucking and processing and…
The older settlement across the river, with a village of mud houses and a 575-step climb to the hill…
A reservoir 13 km from town with boating, a shola forest edge and the roadside spot where the hills…
A 16th-century lake between Hyderabad and Secunderabad, with an 18-metre monolithic Buddha on a rock in…
The city's second lake, with a lakeside promenade that locals treat as an evening living room, plus…
A 14th-century reservoir with ghats, chhatris and migratory birds in winter — the calmest corner of…
A 104 sq km forest inside the city limits, holding 109 Buddhist caves carved between the 1st century…
A wide cascade between Munnar and Pallivasal, at its most impressive right after the monsoon.