# Almanac > The India nobody shows you. Researched editorial guides to genuinely hidden and undocumented destinations — the history, the honest reality, and what nobody tells you. Almanac is a solo-written travel publication about India. The Uncharted section is the heart of it: one long-form book per destination, covering places that have little or no coverage anywhere else. The city guides cover better-known towns and the attractions around them. Every destination page is researched from primary sources. Where a coordinate, distance or fact could not be confirmed, it is left out rather than guessed. - [Uncharted India — full contents](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted) - [All city guides](https://almanacindia.com/city-guides) ## Uncharted Destinations - [Bara Bhangal](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/bara-bhangal): Permanently inhabited village with no road — reachable only by a five-day trek over two 4,700m passes in Himachal Pradesh - [Rakcham](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/rakcham): Last village before the Chitkul dead end in Himachal's Baspa Valley — older and quieter than its famous neighbour - [Nako](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/nako): 11th-century monastery village at 3,600m in Spiti, with a sacred lake the villagers have protected for a thousand years - [Demul](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/demul): One of the highest permanently inhabited villages in the world, Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh - [Lhalung](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/lhalung): Hidden monastery village in Spiti with 1,000-year-old murals still intact - [Darchik](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/darchik): A Dard Aryan village in Ladakh's Kargil district — one of the last communities of a people who claim descent from Alexander's army - [Merak](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/merak): Remote Changpa nomad settlement on the shores of Pangong Lake's eastern arm - [Puga Valley](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/puga-valley): Geothermal valley in Ladakh with hot springs and sulphur fields — one of India's least visited landscapes - [Kyagar Tso](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/kyagar-tso): High-altitude salt lake in Ladakh near the Chinese border, almost never visited - [Hunderman](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/hunderman): Village that was Pakistan until 1971 — Museum of Memories on the Line of Control, Kargil district - [Laitlum Canyons](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/laitlum-canyons): The end of the earth in Meghalaya — steep canyon drops into cloud forest above Shillong - [Wahkhen](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/wahkhen): Living root bridge village in Meghalaya's West Jaintia Hills, rarely visited by outsiders - [Markham Valley](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/markham-valley): Remote valley in Meghalaya with ancient megalithic stones still standing in paddy fields - [Wah Rilang](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/wah-rilang): Sacred waterfall and pilgrimage site deep in Meghalaya's interior - [Phe Phe Falls](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/phe-phe-falls): Undocumented waterfall in Meghalaya — no road, two-hour trek, no other tourists - [Osian](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/osian): 8th-century temple complex in the Thar Desert — the Khajuraho of Rajasthan that nobody visits - [Khimsar](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/khimsar): Fortified village in the Thar — a 16th-century fort still owned by the same family - [Kiradu](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/kiradu): Haunted 12th-century temple ruins in Rajasthan's Barmer desert — the Angkor Wat nobody knows about - [Bundi](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/bundi): Step-well city in Rajasthan that Kipling called the most Indian of all Indian towns - [Milam Glacier](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/milam-glacier): One of the largest glaciers in the Kumaon Himalayas — a five-day trek from Munsiyari - [Birthi Falls](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/birthi-falls): 126-metre waterfall in Kumaon's Munsiyari valley, reachable by a short forest trail - [Darma Valley](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/darma-valley): Remote trans-Himalayan valley in Kumaon near the Tibet border — inhabited by the Shauka people - [Chipla Kedar](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/chipla-kedar): Ancient Shiva temple at 2,700m in Kumaon — older than Kedarnath, almost unknown - [Dayara Bugyal](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/dayara-bugyal): High-altitude meadow at 3,500m in Uttarkashi — one of the finest bugyals in Garhwal - [Bagori](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/bagori): Village at the edge of Gangotri National Park — the last settlement before the glacier - [Mukhba](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/mukhba): Winter home of Goddess Ganga — the village where the Gangotri deity lives for six months - [Gartang Gali](https://almanacindia.com/uncharted/gartang-gali): 150-year-old wooden cliff walkway at 11,000 feet — Heinrich Harrer's 1944 escape route to Tibet ## City Guides — Mainstream - [Manali](https://almanacindia.com/explore/manali) - [Shimla](https://almanacindia.com/explore/shimla) - [Leh Ladakh](https://almanacindia.com/explore/leh-ladakh) - [Goa](https://almanacindia.com/explore/goa) - [Jaipur](https://almanacindia.com/explore/jaipur) - [Udaipur](https://almanacindia.com/explore/udaipur) - [Jodhpur](https://almanacindia.com/explore/jodhpur) - [Varanasi](https://almanacindia.com/explore/varanasi) - [Rishikesh](https://almanacindia.com/explore/rishikesh) - [Darjeeling](https://almanacindia.com/explore/darjeeling) - [Ooty](https://almanacindia.com/explore/ooty) - [Coorg](https://almanacindia.com/explore/coorg) - [Munnar](https://almanacindia.com/explore/munnar) - [Nainital](https://almanacindia.com/explore/nainital) - [Dehradun](https://almanacindia.com/explore/dehradun) - [Cherrapunji](https://almanacindia.com/explore/cherrapunji) - [Andaman](https://almanacindia.com/explore/andaman) ## City Guides — Moderate & Offbeat - [Kasol](https://almanacindia.com/explore/kasol) - [Kasauli](https://almanacindia.com/explore/kasauli) - [Hampi](https://almanacindia.com/explore/hampi) - [Varkala](https://almanacindia.com/explore/varkala) ## City Guides With Field Books These six guides carry an expedition ribbon: pulling it opens a field book of hidden places near that town, written as a separate piece of long-form work. - [Shimla](https://almanacindia.com/explore/shimla) - [Leh Ladakh](https://almanacindia.com/explore/leh-ladakh) - [Cherrapunji](https://almanacindia.com/explore/cherrapunji) - [Jodhpur](https://almanacindia.com/explore/jodhpur) - [Nainital](https://almanacindia.com/explore/nainital) - [Dehradun](https://almanacindia.com/explore/dehradun) ## About - [About Almanac](https://almanacindia.com/about) - [Community](https://almanacindia.com/community)