A genuine sense of freedom will blissfully remain elusive to us. We have, fortunately, eclipsed the era of suppression by fascinator-wearing rulers. So on this Independence Day, we evoke the emotion of patriotism with a twist. Instead of just saluting the saffron, white and green; we salute places that played a complex but coherent part […]
Experiences that are over-dramatized are often not taken very seriously. That said, we can and will proclaim that the panorama of the Southern Lights is exempt from this rule. If an Aurora Australis picture or tale has underwhelmed you, believe us when we say that it was due to absolute dereliction on the part of […]
Europe is many things: watching sunsets on the Mediterranean, dotted with palaces straight from the Middle Ages, and a paradise for backpackers. It has culinary diversity. It is a land of dazzling artistry. Is there any wonder then, that it appears prominently on every travel destination list? Though the vast lands of Europe offer […]
‘One destroys not a thing of beauty wantonly.’ It is precisely however, what humanity has done. The pockets of wonder, which make every country unique, are slowly being trampled under travellers’ feet. An exception is Myanmar. For Burma, as it was formerly known, the words Rudyard Kipling wrote surprisingly still hold power – it is […]
The pronouncement colleagues, families, companies & even strangers tell chronic business travellers is actually an “alternate fact.” No matter how much we travel for business or pleasure, our bodies and Pleistocene brains have not caught up to our itinerant lifestyles. No matter how many times we journey from East to West or West to East, […]
The world’s biggest football competition is ongoing and all-permeating andit definitely got us thinking. After all, it is a sport that has proven to consume the collective conscious of several nations around the world, for a few weeks every four years. Needless to say that the quadrennial event then, is a pretty big deal. So, […]
Travel. A topic that never, and it bears repeating, never fails to be a great conversation starter. And the dernier cri of travel? Places that most people don’t think of when they think ‘vacation’. Destinations that lie between ‘somewhat off the beaten the path’ and ‘top tourist towns of the world’. This month we picked […]
It matters greatly what consummate travellers and globetrotters say about travelling because it gives us, the comparative amateurs, a purpose and a narrative. And this season, the discoverers have spoken for four places in India that do poetic justice to the magical monsoons. All four of the places are a rhapsody of beauty, bliss, and […]
The word rain calls to mind hot chocolate toddies, or if you are bit more desi – cutting chai and piping hot onion bhajjis. The word rains can also bring to mind a deluge that pours on all and sundry with full gusto. If you fall in the ranks of people who think the latter, […]
We try our very best to do our bit in bringing you some respite from the hectic jobs and routines you are saddled with day after day, with our newsletter. This month we brought to you three breath-taking European spots that are our chosen summer destinations for 2018. Here, we want to tell you why. […]
Over 560 Billion US Dollars. That’s the moolah globetrotters around the world have spent on wellness tourism. And those are the figures from three years back. Today, these digits have increased in leaps and bounds. Relaxing, realigning and re-energising are not just words. They are well-earned and well-deserved terms that travellers have become familiar with […]
The time when travel agents did mundane tasks like booking air-tickets has long since gone. When Vogue rebrands travel agents and vacation planners as “travel designers”, people sit up and take notice. Here we explore what makes travel companies an absolute essential for the quintessential traveller. Think of them as a personal shopper, a professional […]
