Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago and India offers ample opportunities for entering near-primeval forests, deserts and mountains, so sparsely inhabited that at times you actually feel that you and your companions are the only people on earth. It is a peculiarity of India that once you leave the noisy, crowded cities behind, everything becomes remote and peace descends. Whether it is walking on crunchy-dry leaves in the forests of middle India or past the sweet-smelling junipers interspersed by rhododendrons in the high Himalayas, every day in India you spend outside your room is an adventure. Add to this the facilities India has for adventure sports and you have a potent combination.