Travel Week, 3-9 August

Travel week is designed to introduce the program’s participants to the heart of Punjab, leaving the metropolis of Chandigarh far behind. We cross west into the Doaba and Majha regions for the first time. Our travels continue to Amritsar and the Wagah border crossing into Pakistan. The journey then turns northeast, climbing into the hilly country of Himachal Pradesh and to Dharamsala, home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile. Day trips explore important and oft-forgotten communities and places of reverence. The week leaves off where travels in the program began, under the gaze of the Goddess high above at Naina Devi.