Wandering round the myriad staircases, corridors and battlements of Neemrana, - for a while you can have the rare experience of feeling like you're actually on holiday while still in India!
We buy our Indian miniatures from Mukesh, a fourth-generation painter, who sits and works in the traditional Rajasthani style in his small shop in the market street at Bundi, Rajasthan.
The walk takes several hours and a cold wind takes the pleasure; the walk seems long and uninteresting even though the landscape is getting more dramatic. I'm pleased to reach camp.
Indian artisans have been casting brass and bronze sculptures for thousands of years. A quick tour of some of the unusual, and sometimes very strange, brass and bronze sculptures on sale at the Silk Road Gallery.
The remoteness of Ladakh - the Land of High Passes - has isolated it from the rest of India and preserved its traditional Buddhist culture of ancient monasteries, friendly people, remote villages and dramatic landscapes.