Expert Insights

May 13, 2016 The Markha Valley Trek in Pictures

Read time – 1 minute This is India as you’ve never seen it before. The Marka Valley is Ladakh’s iconic trek, perfect for a first foray into the region. The scenery is stupendously varied for the number of days walking, rewarding you at every turn with ever-changing panoramas, jagged rainbow-hued summits and wide vistas where...

May 13, 2016 Why Ladakh is About to Become #1 On Your Wishlist

Landscapes that redefine everything you thought you knew about scale. Monasteries beautiful enough to make you consider, just for a second, becoming a monk. Skies so big and empty you feel like you’ve shrunk. This is Ladakh, the barren, stark beauty of the Indian side of the Himalaya. Stakna monastery It’s the Himalaya, but in...

May 13, 2016 Top 5 Zen Places to Visit

Read time – 2 minutes Prince Siddhārtha Gautama – you might know him as Buddha – is one of history’s greatest spiritual leaders, and Buddhism continues to play an important role in the global culture. Amongst the many teachings of Buddhism, the concept of zen is perhaps one of the most commonly found in today’s world – you...

May 11, 2016 Ask Dave Cycling Questions

Read time – 1 minute Meet Dave Sear, the front runner for the hotly contested title of Most Keen Cyclist here at Exodus, and our go-to guy for all things bike. Dave in action Dave’s life goal is to get you out and cycling better than ever. Whether you’re a leisurely rider or a hardcore...

May 11, 2016 A Walking Tour Du Mont Blanc

Read time -3 minutes The Alps are not Europe’s last unexplored wilderness. They’re well mapped, lovingly crisscrossed with a silvery web of paths held in adulatory high esteem by walkers, trail runners and cyclists alike. Anyone walking the Tour du Mont Blanc is propelled up and over the passes by cheery yellow plastic signposts, impossible to...

May 09, 2016 Walking in the French Alps

Read time – 2 minutes Creaking glaciers carving their way down to pine forests and flower-flecked meadows, ancient shepherds’ hamlets perched beside glassy lakes and hundreds of peaks to conquer. More beautiful than you could ever imagine, how could you not fall in love with the Alps? Mont Blanc Tour leaders Mark and Carey Faulkner have...

May 09, 2016 Your Words, Not Ours – The Picos de Europa

Read time – 5 minutes This article is a client contribution. It was kindly written for us by Fiona Churchill, and all the photographs below are hers. She travelled with us to the Picos de Europa in August 2015. Take it away Fiona… As an “Exodus junkie” – if that is what I can call...

May 06, 2016 Celebrating 90 Years of Sir David Attenborough

Read time – 2 minutes 2016 was a bad year for celebrity royalty, with numerous great losses racking up from the entertainment world. But thankfully there’s at least one stalwart of our screens still going strong: the inimitable David Attenborough. An increasingly rare example of a genuine, passionate man who is famed and loved for...

April 29, 2016 Nepal Medical Camp in Pictures

Read time – 1 minute On 19 March 2016, in the remote village of Thulopatel in Nepal, something unusual was happening. The ordinarily quiet village was waking up to find a small queue beginning to form on the road leading to the village. Some were hobbling, some were led by the hand and some had...

April 28, 2016 Top 5 Unusual Cycle Tours in Eastern Europe

Read time – 3 minutes Central and Eastern Europe: the new kids from the eastern bloc are undeniably amongst the coolest travel destinations on the planet right now. After many years of isolation, these countries have arrived fashionably late to the party and are making up for lost time – chic trendy cities with ruined...