Photography

Gurung villages and Poon Hill dawn on short, guided walks

A car-free Newar bazaar on the old road between India and Tibet

Tigers, wild elephants and the Karnali river in Nepal's far west

Brick squares, potters and the five-tiered Nyatapola temple

Rhinos, gharials and sal forest in Nepal's first national park

A Himalayan view and a wellness retreat an hour from Kathmandu

Sherpa villages, Tengboche and Everest views on lodge-to-lodge walks

Stupas, temples and royal squares in Nepal's capital valley

The birthplace of the Buddha, in the plains of southern Nepal

Rain-shadow valleys, Muktinath and the walled city of Lo Manthang

Newar temples, a palace museum and bronze casters across the river

Lake town at 822 m with the Annapurnas on the skyline

A desert city of red forts, havelis and bhujia

Stepwells, murals and a palace on the hillside

The great fort of Mewar and its stories of siege

A hilltop palace, a mountain railway and rural Mewar

The pink city of forts, bazaars and royal hotels

A living golden fort at the edge of the Thar

Leopards on granite hills among herders and temples

The blue city below Mehrangarh Fort

A mountain fort, its great wall and the Ranakpur temple

A holy lake town of ghats, temples and roses

Tigers among lakes, ruins and a thousand-year-old fort

A painted palace in the hills an hour from Jaipur

Painted merchant towns of the northern desert

Lakes, palaces and the slowest days in Rajasthan

Ladakh's oldest temple murals, in a village of apricot trees

India's first dark sky reserve, high on the Changthang

One of Ladakh's oldest monasteries above the eroded moonland

Ladakh's capital at 3,500 m, and where every journey begins

Sand dunes, Bactrian camels and monasteries beyond Khardung La

A long blue lake at 4,225 m that runs into Tibet

A protected high lake at 4,522 m among Changpa nomads

A Balti village of apricots and stone lanes on the Shyok

Ladakh's remotest valley, over Pensi La to Padum

The glass-clear Umngot river on the Bangladesh border

A Monpa river valley halfway to Tawang

Home of most of the world's one-horned rhinos

Vaishnava monasteries on a great Brahmaputra river island

A tidy Khasi village with a root bridge on its doorstep

The double-decker root bridge, about 3,000 steps below Sohra

A high Sikkim valley of rhododendrons near the Tibetan frontier

Monastery ridge with the closest view of Kanchenjunga

Waterfalls, limestone caves and the rain capital of India

India's largest monastery, high in the eastern Himalaya

The Apatani rice valley and its September music festival

A sea fort, quiet backwaters and Kerala's far north

Theyyam country, looms and the old Malabar forts

Five centuries of spice traders on one small peninsula

Tea estates, cool mornings and the Nilgiri tahr

Kerala's cultural capital, temples and the great Pooram

Red laterite cliffs above a pilgrim beach

Fort Aguada, the Reis Magos ramparts and north Goa's calmer beaches

River islands of paddy, mangroves and hilltop churches

Waterfalls, spice farms and a Kadamba temple in the Western Ghats

The great Portuguese-era houses of south Goa's villages

The UNESCO churches of Portugal's lost Asian capital

Goa's riverside capital and its painted Latin quarter

The Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and the Mughal river bank

The Bodhi tree and the Mahabodhi Temple in Bihar

Tigers, rhinos and swamp deer on the Nepal border

Akbar's red sandstone capital on a ridge west of Agra

Where the Buddha passed away, under twin sal trees

Nawabi architecture, Awadhi kebabs and chikankari

Krishna's homeland on the Yamuna, an hour from Agra

The Sangam, the Magh Mela and the home of the Kumbh

Vulture Peak, the peace stupa and the ruins of Nalanda

An early republic, Ashoka's lion pillar and the Buddha's last sermon

Dawn boats, evening aarti and the oldest lanes on the Ganges