About

People of the hills

People of the hills

People of the hills

We’re a small team of hosts living in Kangra, Kullu and Kinnaur. We plan the journeys we’d take ourselves.

We’re a small team of hosts living in Kangra, Kullu and Kinnaur. We plan the journeys we’d take ourselves.

We’re a small team of hosts living in Kangra, Kullu and Kinnaur. We plan the journeys we’d take ourselves.

A host walking a stone path between old houses above the Beas valley

Slow by choice

Slow by choice

Slow by choice

Pahadi Trails started in 2019 in a Naggar guesthouse, when friends kept asking us where to go past Manali. We sent them to the villages we knew, with a host on the phone, and they came back with stories instead of photos of traffic.

Pahadi Trails started in 2019 in a Naggar guesthouse, when friends kept asking us where to go past Manali. We sent them to the villages we knew, with a host on the phone, and they came back with stories instead of photos of traffic.

Pahadi Trails started in 2019 in a Naggar guesthouse, when friends kept asking us where to go past Manali. We sent them to the villages we knew, with a host on the phone, and they came back with stories instead of photos of traffic.

Today a handful of us plan every Route by hand. We drive the roads, sleep in the homestays and check the passes ourselves each season. If we wouldn’t take our own parents somewhere, we don’t send you there.

Today a handful of us plan every Route by hand. We drive the roads, sleep in the homestays and check the passes ourselves each season. If we wouldn’t take our own parents somewhere, we don’t send you there.

Today a handful of us plan every Route by hand. We drive the roads, sleep in the homestays and check the passes ourselves each season. If we wouldn’t take our own parents somewhere, we don’t send you there.

2019

2019

2019

first journey, from Naggar

3

3

3

valleys where our hosts live

40+

40+

40+

homestays we’ve slept in

1

1

1

number to call, any hour

Your hosts

Your hosts

Your hosts

Kavita picking apples in an orchard near Naggar

Kullu

Kavita Thakur

Grew up above Naggar. Knows every orchard path and which cafés still bake their own bread.

Arjun walking through a Palampur tea garden

Kangra

Arjun Rana

Former trekking guide. Plans the Kangra and Bir Routes, and the toy-train days.

Ramesh on a carved balcony in Kalpa facing the peaks

Kinnaur

Ramesh Negi

Runs our Kinnaur and Spiti Routes from Kalpa, and calls ahead before every pass.

How we choose a stay

How we choose a stay

How we choose a stay

We sleep there first

No stay goes on a Route until one of us has spent a night in it.

Registered and fair

Homestays registered under Himachal’s Home Stay Rules, 2025, paid on time, every time.

Cooked by the family

Siddu, madra and chha gosht, not a buffet.

Small by design

Three to six rooms, so the family has time for you.

Illustration of a traveller with chai looking over a Himalayan valley and winding road

Let’s find your valley

Let’s find your valley

Let’s find your valley

Tell us when you can travel. We’ll send two Routes that fit, within a day.

Tell us when you can travel. We’ll send two Routes that fit, within a day.

Plan my journey

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