You wake up in a small and cosy bamboo cottage with the smells of clay and cardamom. Just another lazy morning in a laidback village where nothing happens usually. Days come and pass in their own rhythm. You listlessly immerse in a tender sun and observe the peasants plough through slush and mud down the terraces to prepare the fields for farming, and you lose count of your own time. A villager invites you to his house to observe some shamanistic rites and offers 'Tumbas' (A local millet beer served in bamboo containers). You follow the animistic rituals that transport you to a different time. The mild flutter of the prayer flags mingles with the lilting voices of the praying women around the altar. With the fall of evening, you walk through a thick bamboo forest back home. The family around a fire in the kitchen is waiting for you. Stories. Fragmented words. A togetherness. Someone has already started playing the flute while the mountain river down the gorge looks like a thin slither from a loom in silver moonlight. Naturebeyond takes you to such inner landscapes in the rural Himalayas. Our village tourism programmes in the eastern Himalayas offer you homestays and a lot more. Stay with a local host and become a member of the family, enjoy their home-grown organic food, understand their traditional livelihood and the many stories, interact with the people around, take part in daily village activities – in a word, dissolve your sense of space.