Raacho Trekkers

26/06/2025

🏡✨ Himachal Pradesh Homestay Rules 2025! ✨

The new rules were finally published in the state Gazette yesterday.

🔗 Read the blog post to know what it entails for homestay in the state.

https://raachotrekkers.com/himachal-homestay-rules-2025/

The picture on the first page of the Himachal Pradesh Home Stay Scheme 2008 depicts a quintessential Himachali home located by a river. On its slate stone roof, built in […]

23/03/2025

The summer has wrapped us in its warm embrace earlier than usual this year, making a swift leap from the chill of winter and bypassing the gentle warmth of spring.

01/12/2024

Autumn has arrived here in Kinnaur.

01/01/2024

New beginnings and new adventures are just around the corner. Happy New Year!

13/10/2023

Life in and through the lens of a traveler from Japan.
https://raachotrekkers.com/winter-life-kinnaur-spiti/

13/09/2023

Temso (also spelled as Tem Tso) is a sacred glacier fed lake located high (4979 meters) above Lippa and Labrang villages of ,

Hiking log of Temso Lake. It is a high altitude (4979 meters AMSL) Greater Himalayan Lake in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh.

12/07/2023

Best photo spots en route Spiti valley road trip.
And excellent piece by PhotoMithra
https://raachotrekkers.com/photo-spots-on-spiti-road-trip/

29/06/2023

The barren white landscape dotted with monasteries, villages brimming with cultural treasures and warmth of the people of Spiti – it is no wonder that this remote Himalayan valley is popular with travelers even during winters.

All pictures by Vishal.

27/06/2023

Embracing the tranquil beauty of this glacial gem nestled amidst the mighty Garhwal Himalayas.

One of several glacial lakes you encounter en route Lamkhaga Pass trail.

26/06/2023

Sometimes you don't believe in fairytales. Then you see pictures of .

26/06/2023

Following the footsteps of JB Auden.
John Bicknell Auden was brother of renowned poet WH Auden. He was a pioneering and geologist of the Himalayas. John Auden and Michael Spender (another English explorer and surveyor) vied to be included in the expedition that would deliver an Englishman to the summit of Everest.
Auden and Michael collaborated on a cartographic expedition of the Himalayas. Auden left for India in 1926. Desirous of conquering the Everest, he patiently surveyed the to ascertain when and how the ranges were formed. Spender brought in his expertise at photogrammetry, the science of interpreting and measuring landscapes through photographs, for the development of topographical maps. His skills aided Britain in the war effort.

JB Auden was the first European to get a close-up view of the south face of Mt. Everest.