NARENDRA NAGAR, India (CNN) -- The journey to the Ananda spa begins on the Shatabdi Express, a train that rumbles through the Ganges Valley in northern India. Then a scenic drive up the winding ...

Ananda makes its own spa products from the purest sources: indigenous essential oils, muds, clays, gels and vegetable oils, all lovingly blended for their therapeutic energy, imparting wellness ...

This article is more than 10 years old. Ananda in the Himalayas is a destination spa fit for a king. “Spoil you silly” is how Ananda’s general manager describes his staff’s mandate.

Ananda spa director Colin Hall praises the male therapists. "At other places in the world, girls may make the best therapists, but the boys here are very calm and have such healing powers," he said.

Wellbeing Escapes (wellbeingescapes.com, 020 7644 6120) offers a seven-night Active, Rejuvenation or Detox programme at Ananda in the Himalayas from £3,099 per person.

So you and your lady, head to Ananda, in the Himalayan foothills, for a break from the big city. This spa is luxurious but it's also serious - takes commitment. But you don't have that kind of time.

Photographs Courtesy: Ananda in the Himalayas India’s first destination spa, Ananda in the Himalayas, was voted as the 'Number One Spa in the World' at the Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Spa Awards 2012 ...

Ananda spa and resort A short flight on to Dehradun and then a 90 minute, slightly unnerving, car ride up into the foothills of the Himalayas takes you to the luxury ayurvedic spa, Ananda.

Ananda Spa basics What it costs Abercrombie & Kent (0845 0700616) has a seven-night package including one night at the Taj Mahal Hotel, Delhi, and six nights in a deluxe Palaces View room at ...

FHW Staff – Mumbai Ananda Spa Institute has announced its new batches for eight week diploma in Ayurvedic Spa Therapies starting November 1, 2014 and sixteen week Spa Diploma starting November 1 ...

HYDERABAD: Ananda Spa Institute invites applications for its eight week diploma in Ayurvedic Spa Therapies and sixteen week Spa Diploma that commences from November 1. The teaching methodology ...