Category: Asia

By Sushmita Das Karnataka is a tapestry of colours, cultures, flavours, landscapes, timelessness and heart stopping beauty. It’s a place where vibrant worlds seamlessly meld into one another every few hundred kilometres. Sedate plains suddenly rise to dizzying mist covered hilly heights, and then plunge with careless abandon in a white-watered…

By  Srinivas Krishnan Perhaps Pharrell Williams made a trip to Bhutan before he wrote and performed his monster hit of a song, Happy. Because I’m happy… Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth Well, that truth seems to be clear to the Government of the Kingdom of…

 by Sonashree Roy  Mongolia was nothing short of ‘Heaven on Earth’ for me or may be the closest replica on the face of Earth. I had the privilege of visiting this Virgin, untouched, unexplored country this summer, which has somehow managed to keep itself alien to the travel loving Indian.…

When people travel, the biggest topics and highlights are often unique, funny or offbeat experiences that make great dinner party conversations. That’s the best thing about travel for most of us – experiencing something that’s unusual when compared to ones own culture.  So here are seven unique travel ideas from…

By Abhik Dutta If variety is the spice of life then India surely must rank as one of the most exotic and rare concoctions ever devised by God. In the cultural and historical cauldron that makes India so special, there is unity in diversity – a saying that every child…

By Abhik Dutta Seven years after my first trip to Thailand, nothing much has changed in the Kingdom. Most of everything that really matters to a tourist like me are still ‘same same’ and amidst the loud, thumping music of Go-Go bars in Soi Bangla in Patong, Phuket the old…

Whether you’re still looking to find the perfect gift for dad, or you just want to mix it up and escape the everyday for a while, we’ve got our list of  top three  ‘indulgent dad friendly destinations’ that you can surprise your father with. And the best part is that…

By Abhik Dutta 1.  They are very polite and disciplined. 2. They are many. There are many people everywhere. 3. Chinese cuisine is NOT bland. Sample the Sichuan cuisine – try Chicken fry Sichuan style at Made in Beijing  (Jiangtai Road, Chaoyang) or at Shanshujian 4.  There is a superb…

Meenakshi Shankar Summer’s drawing to an end throwing caution to the wind …heading off to exotic  getaways, sojourns to surprise your beloved or simply treating your senses to an virgin island or a rain forest; heading out to discover a man made wonder – it’s a whole new world of…

By Savitha Subramanium Albeit a little late to sit down and pen my thoughts about Bhutan, I had no one else to blame but me – simply because Bhutan, the land of the Thunder Dragons still had ‘that’ effect which had me at loss for adjectives about the place. That,…

Now this is one city that sure knows how to hit the headlines. The magical lure that the city has leaves us asking for more. Futuristic, surreal, yet holding an old world charm – there’s so much do…so much to see…so much to absorb… 1. Shopping Paradise Ask a shopaholic…

By Abhik Dutta Part 1: Reaching Cambodia. April, they say, is the worst month to travel to Cambodia because of the heat. So, I being me, against all sane advice that I downloaded from the internet, decided to go to Siem Reap from Bangkok by road.
The journey from Bangkok started…