World Tourist Destinations

Loads of fun smashing plates after a hearty meal in Paris Always wanted to tick Paris of his list of places that he has visited. But when he finally embarked on his much-awaited...

DETOURS Until I was old enough to learn how to pack my bag (which was much after I learned to tie my shoelaces), it was my mother who arranged things for me--the clothes I should take,...

I was standing in a cave-like underground museum at the Koutsoyannopoulos Winery in Vothonas, a few kilometres from Santorini's Kamari beach. I was there to begin a tryst with the...

CHENNAI TIFFIN READY At 5am, walk the streets of Chennai. It's safe to do so: The heat does not set in at this early hour. This will be about the coolest the city will get for the...

own these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.“ This was the private detective of Raymond Chandler's dreams, a man who struck...

It all begins with barley. Heaps and heaps of this cereal grain sit on the second floor of a three-floor warehouse building on the grounds of The Balvenie Distillery Co. Ltd in Dufftown,...

Geek getaways MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF COSMONAUTICS | MOSCOW, RUSSIA ··················································· COSMONAUT COUNTRY Even the memorials to the Soviet space programme...

I remember being at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, a couple of years ago. My daughter, 12 at the time, would have been disappointed if Donald Duck had not been around to shake...

MOUNTAIN SONG The “getaway“ music festival is the curse of Indian indie. The lure is easy to understand--spend a few days camping in the foothills of the Himalayas or on the banks...

DEEPER UNDERGROUND Meghalaya's luxuriously rich flora and fauna, fuelled by some of the heaviest rainfall in the world, has been a wonderland for thrill-seeking travellers for decades....

Mallika Sherawat Car wash! ...

FORCES OF NATURE -- ...