Destinations

Each destination is a Markdown file in src/content/destinations/. The file name becomes its address: ladakh.md is published at /destinations/ladakh/. Every trip and stay belongs to a destination, so create these first.

---
title: "Ladakh"
country: "India"
region: "Union Territory of Ladakh"
coords:
  lat: 34.16
  lng: 77.58
altitude: 3500
summary: "High desert valleys above 3,500 m, with Leh as the base for trekking the Markha Valley."
image: dest-ladakh.jpg
imageAlt: "Two rivers meeting in a turquoise curve between bare grey mountains under a blue sky"
season:
  - off
  - off
  - off
  - good
  - good
  - best
  - best
  - best
  - best
  - good
  - off
  - off
highlights:
  - "Markha Valley trekking on well-marked trails"
  - "Hemis and Thiksey monasteries within a day's drive of Leh"
  - "Pangong Lake day trips over the Chang La pass"
featured: true
order: 1
glance:
  currency: "Indian rupee (INR)"
  language: "Ladakhi, Hindi and English"
  timeZone: "GMT+5:30"
  plugs: "Type C, D, M"
  visa: "Most foreign visitors need an Indian visa."
  gettingThere: "Fly to Leh, or reach it by road from Manali or Srinagar when the passes are open."
  bestFor: "High desert trekking, monastery visits and Pangong day trips"
notes:
  - kind: warn
    title: "Winter road closures"
    text: "The Manali to Leh and Srinagar to Leh roads usually close when heavy snow blocks the high passes."
    months: "Nov–Apr"
---

Fields

Field	Required	What it does
title	Yes	The destination name.
country	Yes	The country.
region	No	A region or state, used in the map’s address line.
coords	Yes	lat and lng. Shown as the atlas line and used for the map and structured data.
altitude	Yes	Metres above sea level.
summary	Yes	Up to 160 characters, for cards, the page header and search results.
image, imageAlt	Yes	The main photo and its description.
imagePosition	No	Which part of the photo to keep when it is cropped.
season	Yes	Exactly twelve values from January to December, each best, good or off.
highlights	Yes	Between 3 and 6 short lines.
featured	No	true makes the destination eligible for blocks set to featured: true. Default false.
order	No	Lower numbers come first. Default 0.
glance	No	Facts for the “At a glance” block. See below.
notes	No	Road, pass and permit notes. See below.

At a glance

glance takes any of currency, language, timeZone, plugs, visa, gettingThere and bestFor. The block shows only the facts you set, with the best months from season as a strip.

Notes

Each note has a title and a text, and optionally kind and months.

Field	What it does
kind	info (the default), warn or closed. The kind sets the style of the notice.
months	When the note applies, as text: Nov–Apr.

If any note is closed, the destination page shows a banner with the most serious notice across the top. All notes are also listed lower down the page.

What the destination page shows

A photo header, the facts, trips to the destination, when to go, stays, notes, journal posts about the destination and a call to action. See Pages and blocks to change the layout.

The footer’s Destinations column and the “where” filters in the finders are built from your destinations.

The season strip

season feeds the “when to go” strip on the destination page, the month filter in the trip finder (a trip is shown for a month when it is best or good, or has a departure in it) and the season block, which shows every destination by month.