Few Indian regions pack as much festival variety into a calendar year as Jammu and Kashmir—a place where a Hindu pilgrimage to a Himalayan ice cave, a Sikh harvest celebration, and a spring tulip bloom can all draw crowds within a few months of each other. Sorting out the festivals in Jammu and Kashmir worth […]
Dussehra is one of the few Indian festivals that means genuinely different things depending on where you’re standing — a Ravana effigy going up in flames in Delhi, a goddess idol being carried into the river in Kolkata, and a jewel-lit palace procession in Mysuru all happen on the same day, all under the same […]
Israel’s calendar runs on two overlapping rhythms — the Hebrew calendar’s ancient religious festivals, and a modern, fast-growing scene of arts, light, and music festivals that draws crowds of its own. Sorting out the festivals in israel worth knowing about means untangling both, plus a few phrases that sound like Israeli events but aren’t quite […]
At 1,403 metres, Torna is the highest hill fort in Pune district, and it holds a place in Maratha history to match its height — this was the very first fort Shivaji Maharaj captured, at just sixteen years old, the opening move of what would become the Maratha empire. The torna fort trek is popular […]
Havelock Island — officially renamed Swaraj Dweep in 2018 but still called Havelock by almost everyone, including its own ferry tickets — is the beach that keeps showing up on “best of Asia” lists, and it largely earns the reputation. Figuring out the things to do in Havelock that are worth your limited island days […]
Hanoi rewards travelers who slow down — a thousand-year-old temple sits a few minutes’ walk from a French colonial prison, and a bowl of noodles eaten on a plastic stool can end up being the most memorable meal of the trip. Figuring out the things to do in Hanoi that are actually worth your time […]
Namibia is the kind of destination that feels almost otherworldly. From towering red dunes and ancient deserts to remote waterholes, historic towns, and abandoned buildings slowly disappearing beneath the sand, the Best Places to Visit in Namibia reveal a landscape shaped by nature, wildlife, and history. For travellers looking for something beyond the usual African […]
Some of the world’s best-known celebrations aren’t built around a monument or a parade — they’re built around a specific dish, crop, or communal meal. Food festivals around the world range from a one-hour tomato fight in a Spanish town of 9,000 people to a seventeen-day beer festival that pulls in seven million visitors, and […]
Search that phrase online, and you’ll find lists claiming entire beaches, forts, and even whole districts are “off-limits to Indians but open to foreigners”—almost none of it holds up. The genuine list of places in India where Indians are not allowed is much shorter and much stranger than the myths suggest: it’s built out of […]
Few countries pack as much festival density into a single calendar as Ireland. Between a national parade that reaches hundreds of millions of people worldwide, a fair that crowns a wild goat king, and a city — Cork — that seems to run a major festival every other season, festivals in ireland range from ancient […]