Material GOODS: Our Packing Essentials for Trekking in the Himalaya (or just living on the go!)

Material GOODS: Our Packing Essentials for Trekking in the Himalaya (or just living on the go!)

Comfort in day to day life and on the ultimate adventures are often connected to having some of our favorite and best goods along with us. Here are some of our favorite things that take us from the office to the gym to the ends of the earth and keep us happy, comfortable and well taken care of through it all!

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A Passengers Guide to Getting Around India

A Passengers Guide to Getting Around India

One of the best parts of Above the Clouds are the people we get to meet, sometimes that means our parters on the ground and other times it means our clients. Hailey is a great example of the latter. She signed up for our March trip to India this year - with excitement and lots of awesome personality. It was her first trip to Asia and she proved herself to be adventurous, incredibly open minded, welcoming and hilarious. Her perspectives on the experiences we all shared were unique, well expressed and filled with both wisdom and humor.

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Holy, Holi, Whole.

Holy, Holi, Whole.

Last spring we had an amazing group of women journey through Rajasthan in India. Together we explored textiles, spices, music, food and the wild colors of Holi. The trip was amazing, full of serendipity filled surprises and while we were all on this adventure together - we certainly all had our own journey. This is one of our lady's (Erica) stories from one of all our favorite days we had together, celebrating Holi.

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A Yogini's Lessons Learned from Trekking the Foothills of the Himalaya

A Yogini's Lessons Learned from Trekking the Foothills of the Himalaya

Kathy is a well traveled and well respected yoga teacher who owns and operates YogaVermont, a studio in the heart of Burlington Vermont. In the fall of 2014 we partnered with her and YogaVermont and together we operated a trek through the foothills of east Nepal where each day on the trail was bookended by a sunrise/sunset yoga session with superb views of the top of the world. These are her notes to herself along the way, her thoughts, lessons learned and things to remember for next time.

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