The mountains on either side of the river valley are sharp edged, the ribbon waterfalls fall a thousand feet to shatter on to black rock and the hanging glaciers are brilliant in the bright sun.
Jodhpur is one of the old fortress towns of Rajasthan, the western state of India that borders Pakistan. It is a place of great beauty and many of the iconicand colourful images of India come from Rajasthan.
Spiti is small area of northern India close to the Tibetan border with a old Tibetan Buddhist culture. A few miles south of Kaza, the main town in Spiti, a side track leads to the village of Lantza.
For a few days I searched for the source of the fragrance until I found Tibetan incense drying on the roof of a building which turned out to be a small monastery and home of Dr Dhadon, the maker of Tara Healing incense.
We made beds in India for several years. I designed them in the UK and took the plans to a furniture maker in India. We left them for two weeks trekking in the Himalayas and returned to a perfect Indian bed!