Few Himalayan treks pack forest, meadow and a 360-degree ridge view into six days with an easy-to-moderate grade, and the Phulara Ridge Trek is one of them. It starts from Sankri in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district, climbs through forest to high campsites, crosses a ridge at about 3,700 m and drops to the village of Taluka. […]
Mauritius is a small island with a big menu. About two-thirds of its 1.2 million people are of Indian descent, around 28 percent are Creole, and smaller Chinese and French communities add their own cooking. The result is that Mauritius food is a blend you will not find anywhere else: flatbreads stuffed with split peas, […]
Czechia packs an unusually busy summer into a small country: a fortress hosting extreme metal, a former steelworks turned dance-music campground, a castle-grounds metal weekend and a lakeside beach party. The best festivals in Czech Republic run from early June to mid-August, and 2027 dates are already out for most of the big ones. This […]
Jammu is often treated as a stopover on the way to Vaishno Devi or Kashmir, which undersells it. Sitting on the Tawi river among the Shivalik hills, the old city is full of Dogra-era temples, palaces and a hilltop fort, and its day trips reach lakes, caves and snow. This guide lists the best things […]
Costa Rica’s festival calendar splits into two worlds. One is old and local: masked Boruca dancers, painted ox carts, pilgrims walking to Cartago and weeks-long town fiestas. The other is newer and louder: beach electronic festivals and Envision’s yoga-and-music gathering in Uvita. The newer world is wobbling. Envision’s organizers announced on October 15, 2026, that […]
While much of the world is wrapped in winter coats, the Southern Hemisphere is heading into summer. That is what makes Australia and New Zealand in December such a good pairing: beaches, harbour fireworks and long outdoor days on one side of the Tasman Sea, pōhutukawa blossom and alpine walks on the other. It is […]
Matheran sits at about 800 metres in the Western Ghats of Raigad district, roughly 90 to 105 km from Mumbai by road, and it bans motor vehicles. That single rule shapes everything about a Matheran trek: the paths are red laterite, the only wheels are on a narrow-gauge toy train, and every route eventually ends […]
Gwalior, in northern Madhya Pradesh, about 300 km from Delhi, is built around a sandstone hill fort that Babur reportedly called the “pearl” amongst the fortresses of Hind. Around it sit a Victorian-era palace, medieval temples, Jain rock sculptures, the tomb of the musician Tansen, and a city that UNESCO named a City of Music […]
Ask ten Indians for the best street food in India and you will get ten different answers, usually delivered with some heat. There is no official ranking and no single dish that wins, because the answer changes with the city, the season and the hour. What can be said is that a handful of dishes […]
Each autumn, grounds, stadiums, housing societies, and temple courtyards across India fill with circles of dancers in bright clothes for nine nights. These Dandiya Nights belong to Navratri, the festival of nine nights honouring the goddess Durga, and they sit alongside garba, the circle dance of Gujarat, which UNESCO added to its Representative List of […]