Sitara Himalaya

Sitara Himalaya, a stylish and luxurious ten-room lodge high in the mountains of northern India, is quite obviously anything but an ordinary hotel. It’s here that Good Earth founder Anita Lal has created a hospitality experience that combines the finest aspects of a private home and a luxury resort, a place that’s motivated not by profit-and-loss statements but by the Vedic concept of oneness with the cosmos.

Indian, Tibetan, and English influences are on display in the interiors, and as stunning as they are, the real star of the show is the setting, a valley fringed by spectacular mountain peaks. An Ayurvedic spa and a Himalayan kitchen provide two avenues to restoration, and the surroundings offer no end of opportunities for exploration.