8 days
Ladakh · Moderate
The High Passes
Leh, Nubra and a night on Pangong Tso
Leh → Khardung La → Nubra → Pangong Tso → Chang La → Leh
From₹68,500
- Showing: Pangong Tso, Ladakh
- Lake Pichola, Udaipur
- Alappuzha, Kerala
- Paro Taktsang, Bhutan
Private & small-group journeys · Since 2009
Journeys planned by people who have made them.
Ladakh to Kerala, Bhutan to the Maldives. Every itinerary is drawn by a planner who has travelled it — and looked after by that same person until you're home.
(01)The studio
We have driven the Manali–Leh highway forty-one times. We still stop at the same dhaba in Sarchu, and we still plan every journey as if it were our own.
GTB started in 2009 with one jeep, one driver and a notebook of guesthouse numbers between Manali and Leh. Today we're a studio of planners, guides and drivers in New Delhi, Leh and Kochi — still small enough that the founder reads every enquiry.
We don't sell seats on a bus. We plan private and small-group journeys, from a four-day yatra to a month across the Himalaya, and we only send you somewhere we'd happily go again ourselves.
Read our story(02)Where we go
Thirteen places we know by their back roads.
From the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean. We only list a place once someone on the team has been back more than once.
All destinations01Himalaya
Ladakh
High desert, higher passes.
Best May to September · From ₹68,500
02North India
Rajasthan
Forts, lakes and the long Thar light.
Best October to March · From ₹86,000
03South India
Kerala
Backwaters at the speed of a paddle.
Best September to March · From ₹72,000
04Abroad
Bhutan
Measured in happiness, walked in prayer flags.
Best March–May, September–November · From ₹1,18,000
05Himalaya
Spiti Valley
The middle land, still quiet.
Best June to October · From ₹58,000
06Abroad
Maldives
One island, one lagoon, one very good reason.
Best November to April · From ₹2,45,000
- Seven moreSee every
destination
(03)Signature journeys
Itineraries with room to breathe.
Starting points, not scripts. Every journey bends around your dates, your people and your appetite for early mornings.
All 14 journeys
8 days
Kerala · Easy
Kerala at River Pace
Kochi, Munnar, a private houseboat and Marari
Kochi → Munnar → Thekkady → Kumarakom → Marari
From₹72,000
11 days
Rajasthan · Easy
Forts, Lakes & the Thar
Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur and Jaisalmer
Jaipur → Udaipur → Ranakpur → Jodhpur → Jaisalmer → Thar camp
From₹1,24,000
8 days
Bhutan · Moderate
Valleys of the Thunder Dragon
Paro, Thimphu, Punakha and the Tiger's Nest
Paro → Thimphu → Dochula → Punakha → Paro
From₹1,18,000
(04)Why travel with us
We've been lost on most of these roads. So you won't be.
- Years on the road
- 17
- Since one jeep and a notebook in 2009
- Journeys planned
- 4,860
- From weekend yatras to month-long odysseys
- Travellers who return
- 62%
- And a good number who send their parents
- On-trip support
- 24×7
- A real planner on WhatsApp, day or night
- 01
Planned by people who've made the trip
Every itinerary is drawn by a planner who has travelled that route themselves — most of them more than once, several of them in the wrong season.
- 02
One planner, start to finish
The person who answers your first message is the one who checks in on your last morning. No hand-offs to an operations desk.
- 03
Drivers and guides we've known for years
Our average driver has worked with us for nine years. They know the roads, the weather and where the good chai is.
- 04
Prices that don't grow at the counter
Permits, fees, taxes and tips for drivers are in the quote. If something isn't included, it says so on the first page.
(05)Ways to travel
Seven ways to see it. None of them rushed.
- AdventureHigh passes, long roads
Overland Himalayan crossings, treks with proper acclimatisation and river camps — with backup vehicles, oxygen and people who have done it before.
- HoneymoonQuiet rooms with views
Overwater villas, private houseboats and palace suites, with the small, planned surprises that make the week feel like yours alone.
- FamilySomething for every age
Toy trains, tiger safaris and forts with secret passages. Sensible drives, connecting rooms and guides who are good with children.
- PilgrimageYatras, cared for
Kedarnath, Kashi and beyond — registrations, priority darshan, helicopter slots and a pace that respects both faith and altitude.
- WildlifeTigers, with patience
Ranthambore, Kanha and Kaziranga with naturalists we trust, the right zones booked months ahead, and lodges that give back to the forest.
- Heritage & CultureStories, not checklists
Monasteries at prayer time, a fort with its own historian, dinner in a family kitchen. The India behind the postcards.
- LuxuryPalaces and private islands
The finest stays we know — chosen because we've slept in them — with private guides, first-class rail and nothing left to chance.
(06)A day on the road
Ladakh, hour by hour
05:40
Chai before the pass
The dhaba at Sarchu opens when the first trucks do. Two kulhads, a paratha, and a driver checking the sky over Baralacha La before anyone else is awake.
Sarchu, 4,290 m
(06)A day on the road
Ladakh, hour by hour
05:40
Chai before the pass
The dhaba at Sarchu opens when the first trucks do. Two kulhads, a paratha, and a driver checking the sky over Baralacha La before anyone else is awake.
Sarchu, 4,290 m
11:15
The lake that changes colour
Pangong arrives all at once around a bend in the road: grey, then green, then a blue that looks edited. We stop the car and nobody says anything for a while.
Pangong Tso, 4,225 m
17:30
Prayers at Thiksey
Horns from the roof, butter tea passed down the rows, and a novice monk trying very hard not to laugh at the foreigner who sat on the wrong cushion.
Thiksey Monastery
22:00
The sky, switched on
No moon, no town lights for eighty kilometres. The Milky Way rises over the ridge like smoke. This is the part people describe to us for years afterwards.
Hanle Dark Sky Reserve
The High Passes · September 2025
(07)Travellers, in their words
We'd been to Ladakh before with a big operator and hated it. This time we had two days of doing nothing in Leh, the same driver throughout, and a night at Pangong I will be describing at dinner parties for the rest of my life.
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(08)From the road
Move slowly.
Move your cursor across the page. Photographs from the last few seasons — taken by our guides, our planners and more than a few of our travellers.
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(09)Field notes
Written from the road, not the office.
Your turn
The best journeys start with a long conversation.
Tell us a month, a mood or a place you can't stop thinking about. A planner replies within one working day with questions, not a brochure.