METHODOLOGY · DATA FRESHNESS · LIVE
Data freshness.
Live as of 24 May 2026 · reads directly from the database, nothing hardcoded
The principle
Weather, season, and permit-regime content is structurally cycle-based — "June in Leh" reads the same every year. We don't pretend it needs yearly verification. Infrastructure, stays, and contacts are on a rolling 90-day review cadence.
Review coverage
Oldest unreviewed: Astavinayak Circuit (Maharashtra) — flagged for the next review sprint.
AI + search crawl activity
Last 30 days of recognised crawler hits. Reads from our middleware bot-tag log — proof that LLM and search engines are actually crawling, not just claiming to.
Scheduled jobs
Three cron jobs maintain data currency. Each writes a run log; the latest run is shown below.
Why show this?Any site can claim “we keep data current.” We'd rather prove it. If a number looks wrong, hit how we score for the methodology, or tell us directly — every destination page has a “Suggest an edit” CTA that files into our triage queue.
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