Spiti - A Dustland Fairytale.

by Sarita Santoshini.

Three weeks after returning to Bombay, I shut myself from the frenzy outside and sit finishing my first story about Spiti. As I try explaining my struggle with words when sending postcards from what is believed to be the world’s highest post office back in Hikkim, the loud door bell interrupts me mid sentence, much to my annoyance. 

Spiti: A World Within a World.

by Charu Babbar.

Charu travelled with India Untravelled on our Spiti Kaleidoscope trip.

My trip to Spiti happened exactly a year after my Ladakh trip. The high altitude, arid mountains, and strong sun were reminiscent of Ladakh, but Spiti is a world within a world, as described by Rudyard Kipling in his book Kim.