India

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the southern part of India. Hampi was a prosperous city and the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire in the 14th century.

Lake Toba, or Danau Toba in Bahasa, is a huge, natural lake occupying the caldera of a supervolcano and an important site for the Batak Indigenous people.

Gongoni Danga, roughly translated from Bengali, means red-hot land. In the scorching summer months, locals say that the laterite textures of the canyon seem to sizzle from a distance, hence the name.

Two and a half centuries later, Murshidabad lies half-forgotten, 215 kilometres from Calcutta, cocooned in its glorious past, waiting for its distinct heritage trail to be rediscovered and restored.

Having traveled to India a couple of years ago for a speaking engagement I had I was immediately struck by how vast the country is--so vast that it might take the better part of a lifetime to see it. Ask any traveler. They'll tell you the same and locals would likely concur. The most popular circuit amongst foreign tourists is the Golden Triangle, comprising Delhi, Jaipur, and Agra.

To the discerning traveler, Mehrangarh fort of Jodhpur is an intricate tapestry of half a millennium of history, intertwined with bravery and artistry. And a few dark secrets.

It was my first trip to Varanasi and I was a little disappointed. The squalor, the impossible traffic jams, and the pollution added up to dispel my romantic notions about the city that Mark Twain had famously said to be ‘older than history, older than tradition, and even older than legend’.

A few years back, I had the opportunity to travel to India to go to my good friend's wedding. It was a chance to get a glimpse of the culture that I just couldn’t pass up.

  If you like the idea of spending the night at a castle, you can live like royalty when you rent out a palace suite in Jaipur. Visit India in November, and you can book a suite on Airbnb in its 300-year-old City Palace of Jaipur, which is the home of the royal family. On Nov. 23, the Gudliva Suite will be open to outside guests thanks to Highness Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh, who becomes the first king to be an Airbnb host. The suite is found in a private area of the palace, and it comes with a lounge, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and private swimming pool. Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, who founded Jaipur, had the palace built in the 1700s, and today is a representation of the 18th-century Rajput architecture. Its inside is ordained with decorative chambers, large reception halls, gilded wall decorations, carvings, etc. Besides the royal [...]

Today Goa is mostly popular due to Arambol, its world-known hippie enclave that’s becoming more and more touristic with each passing year.

Many people consider India an utterly unsafe place to travel alone, and while that may be true to some extent, there’s no denying the fact that this country is beautiful and each state has something amazing to offer in terms of sightseeing and cuisine.