Searching for the best homestays in Ladakh? Here's a curated list of places in Leh where you can gaze up at starry night skies, experience culture and cuisine, and even empower rural communities.
Childhood friends Anuja and Sneha have converted their grandmother’s house into an eco-friendly homestay called The Kokum Tree, located in a Maharashtra village.
Living behind a life in Amsterdam, Shammy Jacob returned to his hometown in Tamil Nadu with his wife Charlotte Van't Klooster to set up an organic farm that's also an eco-friendly homestay
The couple had already been planning to buy a plot of land near Nanital, and saw this method of reusing plastic waste as a means to make a real difference.
A paradise for plant lovers, Little Flower Farms in Vagamon stands testimony to one family’s commitment to restoring ecological balance over two long decades.
Homestays will help tourists get a better glance at the lives and culture of our rural areas. The experience they take with them will undoubtedly be much more impactful than staying in AC hotel rooms.
A remote hamlet in Leh’s high altitude Hemis National Park constantly loses its livestock to snow leopards, but have turned to homestays around conservation tourism, reaping rich rewards. Sharada Balasubramanian takes a closer look.
Though they have so much going for them; good fresh unpolluted air, chemical-free produce year long, and a higher quality of life, they seemed to take great pride in telling people that their daughter would be marrying a city dweller.