Special Treks with Indiahikes

Every year, around 30,000 trekkers trek with us across the country. A small percentage of this, just around 7-8% of them, have the privilege of experiencing our special treks. 

I’m writing this email to you inviting you to be one of them. 

Why choose these special treks over regular Indiahikes treks?

At Indiahikes, our effort is always to design treks that transform lives. We want treks to help you have a deeper connection with yourself, with nature, and with others. 

While most of our treks do this, our special treks are designed with a purpose far beyond this. 

Each of these treks—whether Adventure Therapy or Stargazing—is thoughtfully designed to achieve unique, transformative outcomes. These experiences require specialised skills, expert facilitation, and careful planning to ensure they leave you with something truly meaningful. 

Below, I list all the special treks you can expect this year. Take a look.

These are exclusive treks with small groups and limited slots. So, ensure you plan these treks when you see slots available.

1. Adventure Therapy treks

Not many people know this, but our Adventure Therapy trek was ranked among National Geographic’s "Best Of The World List, Wellness Experiences 2024." It was also featured on Lonely Planet and Outlook Traveller for its authenticity. 

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed to deal with life’s problems, this trek is for you. It helps people seeking social, emotional, developmental, or behavioural support and change while adventuring together.

The design combines the goodness of the trekking world with nature-based therapies, wilderness experiences, adventure and experiential education. It is a therapeutic process that happens on a Himalayan trek. An experienced therapist brings the group together and addresses their emotional needs using the tools of adventure therapy.

This trek is not meant for those who are undergoing therapy for serious psychological issues; it is for those with milder issues, looking for change/ healing/ personal development.

2. Himalayan Trekking Summer Camps for Children Aged 10-14 

Our trekking summer camp is actually a front for an experiential learning programme that we have designed for children. While the children are climbing to a summit in the Himalayas, unknown to them, we are conducting an experiential programme that helps children form a deep connection with nature, with themselves and with others.  

Over and above that, they learn hard skills required in the outdoors, which gives them a sense of confidence, resilience, and the ability to deal with hardships.   

Having taken over 15,000 children trekking in the past, we have seen that just one exposure to a trek can change a child’s entire outlook and approach to life. With additional facilitation from our experts, they return with an enormous amount of life lessons in just one week. 

PS: This trek also satisfies the criteria of the Adventurous Journey for IAYP students.

This trek will not follow the regular schedule of our Dayara Bugyal trek but will follow a pace that will match the strength and stamina of seniors.

However, seniors will enjoy all the privileges and goodness that the Dayara Bugyal trek has to offer, including being in the Bugyals.

We love this trek! It is picture-perfect, especially in spring. To get a better idea, I recommend you watch this film about Dayara Bugyal. It is our tribute to this wonderful trek.

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Open Collaborative Leadership Program

World’s biggest organisations and leaders are veering towards collaborative leadership. It is critical to an individual’s growth, and consequently, the organisation’s growth. Earlier, collaborative leadership was expected only of the senior management. In the modern workforce, it is expected even at an entry-level. 

Unfortunately, the formal education systems in our country do not lend themselves to students developing Collaborative Leadership skills. The focus is still on individual development driven by a highly competitive environment. 

This is where our Collaborative Leadership Program comes in. 

A trek in the Himalayas, which is specifically designed for learning collaborative leadership skills, is an ideal setting for this program. In a short intense span of 4 days, participants take away lessons of collaborative leadership that they can fall back on throughout their professional lives. 

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Women Only

For the first time ever at Indiahikes, we have opened a Women Only trek to Kedarkantha this year! What’s even more special is that the all-women team will be climbing the Kedarkantha summit on International Women’s Day, March 8th. 

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With so many special treks, you may have questions to ask me. Just write back to me on latika@indiahikes.com, and I’ll try my best to help.