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What changed on the ground since you last looked.
New guides, new villages, and the seasonal notes that go stale fastest. Short, dated, and written by whoever was actually standing there.
Latest
Seven North Bengal village guides are now live
Chatakpur, Dawaipani, Lamahatta, Takdah, Tinchuley, Latpanchar and Sittong — each written after staying there, with homestay numbers that actually pick up.
Read the full story →Earlier dispatches
Sethan and Naggar join the Himachal collection
Two very different Kullu valley bases — a snow-line hamlet above Manali and a castle village with a Russian painter’s house — are now full guides.
Read the story →Seven location hubs are live — one page per region
North Bengal, Himachal, Sikkim, Goa, Andaman, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand each get a single page that tells you when to come, where to base and what we have written.
Read the story →How we’ll cover permits, roads and weather windows
A short note on what this newsroom is for, what we will publish here, and the one rule we are giving ourselves about official rules.
Read the story →What this desk is for.
Guides age badly. A permit rule changes, a road shuts for a season, a pass opens three weeks late — and the page you read six months ago is quietly wrong.
So anything time-sensitive lands here first, dated, and only then goes into the guides. If something we have published has gone stale, tell us and we will fix it.
— Paul & the Offbeat Peak team