Kerala/Ladakh – Before the trip
7. Dezember 2025
The previous blog isn’t finished yet, but since I’m still on the road and already heading toward new and different experiences, here is already a preview of the next plan. Maybe this blog will end up being a bit shorter – but we’ll see.
Tomorrow I’ll get on a plane in Delhi and land far down south again, in Kerala, in Trivandrum. Someone should be waiting there with a sign with my name on it. And he will then drive me to an Ayurveda resort. And I’ll stay there for a whole week. The full all-around package. Sometimes I’ve wished for this because of the wonderful massages, sometimes I’ve feared it because of the strange food and everything in general, sometimes I’ve hoped for it because I basically consider Ayurveda a promising method, and sometimes I’ve put the idea aside because I didn’t know where to go.
Then I’ll have another 2–3 days to explore this part of southern Kerala, and after that I’ll fly back to Delhi – and pick up my next Diamir travel group at the airport! We’ll switch to the domestic terminal – and fly to Ladakh.
That’s not only a huge distance between Kerala and Ladakh, but also an extreme temperature change—from humid heat to biting cold. But I’m hoping that the Ayurveda treatments will protect me with full superpowers.
The trip goes to the Losar celebrations and is similar to one I have led before. I had designed it myself, and it is still part of Diamir’s special 25 25th-anniversary journeys..
Winter in LadakhThese are both things I’m actually looking forward to, and I’m approaching them with much more ease than the Northeast India period. And I don’t really have that much to say about them in advance. I think Ayurveda experiences haven’t appeared much in recent blog years. Ladakh in winter has – namely here:
However, that was without all the Losar celebrations – so I may indeed have quite a bit to tell after all.