About the tour: “This is not just a tour. This is the meeting I've been waiting for all my life.”
— Angela, 65 years old, Moscow
When I bought a tour to the Indian Hima
layas, I didn't have clear expectations. There was only inner longing for something real, alive. I thought a lot of things were over. But, as it turned out, the most important things were just beginning.
Rishikesh greeted me with an aroma of incense, a warm wind and a river that seemed to carry my thoughts to unknown distances. I was standing on the banks of the Ganges and for the first time in a long time I felt something squeezed inside me over the years. And then there was rafting. Splashes of water, screeching in surprise, laughter — not someone else's, not from TV, but mine, alive, childish. I seemed to be shedding my heavy skin — my age, my worries, everything superficial. And I'm the only one left. It's easy. Free.
In Dharmasala, I found what I had been looking for a long time — silence in which to hear myself. We were sitting in the monastery, and there were good-eyed monks next to us. And at some point, tears just started to flow. Not out of grief. Out of gratitude. Because I'm here. That I'm alive What else can I feel so deeply
Manali... Oh Manali! The air is so clear that you feel like you're drinking the sky. And this paraglider... How do you explain that you rise above the ground and feel like you're spreading your wings? I was flying and laughing. I'm 65 and I'm a bird. Not sick, not tired, not “for age”. And it's free. I could feel the wind in my skin, my heart was beating like when I was 20 — fast, enthusiastic, with life.
And then there was the Roerich Museum. Silence, paintings, and the feeling that the artist himself is leading you by the hand. Every brushstroke has a meaning. There is a world in every view. I went out and realized it was really quiet inside. It's like all the pieces of me finally came together into a whole, beautiful picture.
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This tour was not an adventure for me, but a new start.
I'm back to my place. I remembered what it's like to feel excited, inspired, and light. Age? This is just a number. The main thing is the heart. And it's singing for me now.
Thanks. I cried, laughed, flew, kept silent, opened my eyes—and it was all about Life.
If you feel that something inside you is asking for free, go. Don't be afraid. Your real spring awaits you there.
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