Travel India & Nepal

Why Travel with Ekno Experience?

Because we’re locals. Ekno Experience Director, Sharon Thrupp has lived in India and Nepal for the last ten years and introduced countless Australians to the wonders of this region, including the unique landscapes of the Himalayas.
But we still call Australia home. Ekno Experience is an Australian business, operating under Australian laws and standards.
We look after you. Our tours are accompanied by Buddhist teachers and nuns to provide you with authentic spiritual insight into the culture you are experiencing. Whenever possible we schedule our tours to include teachings from revered Buddhist teachers including His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Traveling with us is an opportunity to awaken your own nature, to deepen and affirm your understanding.
We won’t compromise your comfort either. Daily meditation and yoga, delicious meals, comfortable accommodation and travel options.
All our tours support Dharma partners. We’ve chosen a range of partner organizations that reflect our values and share our motivation to inspire and promote compassionate action. From the beaches of Australia to the mountains of Tibet we hope that your journey with us will engage you long after you’ve arrived home.
Discover the difference - travel that’s good for you, good for others.

Our Mission: To inspire compassionate action, through travel experiences that engage and motivate.

Our Specialist Tour Leaders

Geshe Lobsang Jamyang took ordination at the age of 16. And studied in Kardze Monastery in Tibet then Sera-Je monastery in South India. Having studied a total of 22 years, Geshe Jamyang attained the highest degree in Buddhist philosophy, Geshe Lharampa, then spent an additional year in Gyume Tantric monastery in which he mastered practice and rituals of the tantric tradition.
Having completed his studies, Geshe Jamyang became the main teacher in Drolma-Ling nunnery – one of the leading nunneries in India, teaching philosophy and debating skills in a unique study system emphasising a non-sectarian approach. He is now the head teacher at Chenrezig Institute, Australia.

Glen Svensson from Australia, has been studying Buddhism since 1995. He completed seven years of intensive Buddhist philosophical studies and nine months of meditation retreat in the FPMT Master’s Program in 2005. Since then Glen has taught in India, Australia and Europe with a teaching style emphasizing clarity and simplicity.

Sharon Thrupp Ekno Experience Director has lived and worked in Dharamsala, India for the past 5 years. Sharon is passionate about world travel particularly in India and the Himalaya region. She has spent most of her spare time trekking at high altitudes in the mountains of Nepal, Tibet and India. Sharon has spent many years involved in volunteering and setting up NGO’s in this region. Sharon is also a Buddhist.

Ani Tenzin Pelbar is a Buddhist nun who is originally from the United States. She has lived for the past 18 years in Nepal working in an international NGO rescuing trafficked children. Prior to that she has been a travel guide amongst other careers including a successful corporate life in the USA. Ani Pelbar now divides her time between Kathmandu and Tsopema in Himachal Pradesh.

Angus McDonald has been a writer and photographer since the early 1990s. His work has appeared in leading publications including National Geographic Adventure, The Guardian, The Observer, The South China Morning Post and the magazines of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian. He is the author of The Five Foot Road: In Search of a Vanished China, published by Angus & Robertson, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

He is a well known identity within the Dharamsala area having worked and lived in the region for many years.