Phuentsholing · Thimphu · Punakha · Paro
Bhutan Highlights
Monasteries clinging to cliffs, river-straddled dzongs, and the thunder-dragon kingdom's greatest icons, all in one seamless Himalayan arc.
From ₹38,500 per person
9Destinations across the Northeast
4–8People per group, always
100%Local guides, born here
EveryPermit handled for you
What we mean by moments
You wake at 6am...
But instead of rushing with a group of 40, you're sitting quietly with a local family. They're explaining how they've grown tea here for three generations. The mist is still thick. Your phone has no signal.
This is what we mean by moments. Not Instagram checklist items. Not “been there, done that.” Just moments. The kind you don't forget and can't quite explain.
That's what we spend months designing for you.
A morning at Temi Tea Estate, Sikkim
A day with us
What it actually looks like.
6:00 amNorth Sikkim, 14,000 feet
The engine is off. Your guide points to a ridge without saying anything.
A herd of yaks moves across it in the early light. The lake below is still in shadow. Nobody else is here.
2:00 pmMeghalaya, Khasi Hills
No plan for the afternoon. The trail branches.
Your guide says he knows a place. Twenty minutes later you are standing above a gorge where a root bridge has been growing for five hundred years. You cross it. The roots flex under your feet.
8:00 pmBhutan, Phobjikha Valley
Dinner at the farmhouse. Ema datshi on the table. Wood fire in the corner.
Your host's daughter is doing homework at the other end of the room. The cranes came in at dusk. You realise your phone has been off since afternoon.
Our Story
Why We Built ClearEast Trip
I grew up in the tea gardens near the Bhutan border. I spent my childhood climbing mountains that felt endless, drinking tea with farmers, learning stories that nobody wrote down.
Then I moved to Bangalore. Years of corporate life. Good career. Meaningful work. But somewhere, I lost the thing that mountains had taught me: how to be still.
“Every person I take to the Northeast comes back a little quieter. That is the only review I care about.”— Growth & Operations, ClearEast Trip
I quit my job. Started designing journeys for people like my past self. People who have everything except the one thing they actually need: time to be somewhere.
05 — What makes us different
Three principles. Never compromised.
01
4 to 8 people. Always.
You are not sharing your guide with thirty strangers. The group is small enough that the itinerary can flex when something worth staying for happens. And it will.
02
Guides who live here.
Not trained staff from a city office. People who grew up in these hills, know the families and monasteries by name, and have relationships no booking platform can replicate.
03
No checklist.
We design journeys around mornings, not monuments. An unplanned two-hour conversation with a tea farmer is worth more than five scheduled sights.
Our Destinations
Carefully curated places across the Eastern Himalayas
17 Itineraries across 9 destinations
Places We're Ready For
All itinerariesGangtok · Lachen · Gurudongmar Lake · Lachung · Yumthang Valley
Sikkim Complete Experience
Gangtok, then North Sikkim: Gurudongmar Lake at 17,800 ft, Yumthang's open valleys, and the kind of sky you only see above the cloud line.
From ₹19,000 per person
Guwahati · Shillong · Cherrapunji · Mawlynnong · Dawki
Meghalaya Highlands
Waterfalls, root bridges, and the cleanest village in Asia, Meghalaya at its finest.
From ₹22,500 per person
Guwahati · Kaziranga · Majuli · Jorhat
Kaziranga & Majuli Explorer
Rhinos at dawn, river monasteries at dusk, Assam at its wildest and most spiritual.
From ₹19,000 per person
Guwahati · Tezpur · Bomdila · Dirang · Tawang
Tawang Circuit
Cross the mighty Sela Pass and discover India's largest monastery in the high Himalayas.
From ₹38,000 per person
Dimapur · Kohima · Kisama · Dzukou Valley · Khonoma
Nagaland Tribal Experience
Warrior tribes, ancient morungs, and the world's greatest tribal festival in the hills of Nagaland.
From ₹19,500 per person
Travel Windows
When to go.
October & November
AutumnPost-monsoon clarity. Best for mountain views and tribal festivals.
03 — How we think
What we actually optimise for.
01
Depth over breadth.
Two or three places done slowly — not nine done fast. You will remember fewer names and more feelings. That is the point.
02
People over logistics.
Your driver in Paro is someone we know personally. The family you eat with in Lobesa knows us by name. We don't book strangers from platforms.
03
Pace over pressure.
No 6 AM wake-ups unless you want them. We build in the empty afternoon, the second coffee, the walk with no plan.
04
Conversation first.
Message us like a friend who lives there. No booking bots, no forms. Most replies come within a few hours.
What Travelers Say
What people remember most
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The rhino was six metres away and didn't care about us at all. That indifference was the most humbling thing I've ever experienced in wildlife.
Rohan K., Delhi
Assam Journey, January 2025
From our journal
Thoughts on travel.
Most journeys begin with a
10-minute conversation.
Tell us where you want to go, when, and who is coming. We handle everything from there.
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