How to travel in style

How to travel in style

It's holiday time again and we're sure you're planning a great trip in the near future. While looking your casual best, you may also wish to look fashion forward. Here are a few tips to travelling in style.

Rajasthan's Blue City is a painter's canvas

Rajasthan's Blue City is a painter's canvas

As little kids, we would pester our grandparents to tell and retell the stories of beautiful queens, handsome maharajas, fierce battles and bejewelled royal palaces. I managed to behold and soak in the regalia of one such fairytale-like princely state on my recent trip to Rajasthan's second largest city and home to the Maharajas since 1459, Jodhpur.

Go street struck in Macau!

Macau...

Macao, a Euro-Sino destination is full of dualities, surprising its visitors with the charm of an old Portuguese town...

Cambodia: A village on stilts

Explore Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake, home to a charming floating village with rustic and colourful double-storied houses

Kasauli: Small, pretty and green

Small and pretty

Kasauli is much smaller than most other hill stations. Times Travel found that to be part of its charm

Sip traditionally brewed beers in Belgium

Sip traditionally brewed beers in Belgium

Don't let the diamonds of Antwerp keep you away from the real treasures in Belgium. Locally-made brews with rich, diverse flavours promise to change the way you look at beer.

Marvelling at the invincible Daulatabad Fort

Marvelling the invincible Daulatabad Fort

Believed to be impenetrable in the 14th century, the Daulatabad Fort throws as tough a challenge today to tourists who dare to scale it

Discover Dhun-Heta bungalow in Panchgani

The Dhun-Heta bungalow was built in 1914 by an Englishman Henry Couldry. It has a windowed verandah and sofas so comfortable, you’ll want to sink into one with a book, drinking many cups of tea

Chuikhim, a wonderland trapped in amber

Chuikhim, a wonderland trapped in amber

Tucked away in the hills of north Paschimbanga lies a tiny hamlet that lures travellers with a horn-shaped naumatti.

Visit the pristine Kumaon Himalayas

Visit the pristine Kumaon Himalayas

Domestic tourism has received a shot in the arm with campaigns to popularise even lesser-known tourist destinations.

3 postcard-worthy destinations for you

Go take a break

Chalking out your year-end winter vacation? Times Travel picks out some postcard-worthy destinations for you to choose

North India's famous five

Golden Temple, Amritsar

In a country, where every village has a fascinating story to tell, picking a few favourite spots on the Northern front isn't really an easy task. Yet considering the busy lives that people lead, we narrow down the list to a few locales that promise a fabulous holiday experience up-North.

Destination review: Morroco

Morocc-oh

In the course of the generous sprinkling of oil over the African continent, the land of Morocco, had narrowly managed to escape the cosmic sprinkler. At least that's how Salim, our local tour guide, saw it. "We don't have any oil and we are happy about it," he emphatically told us. In light of the brewing social discontent there, perhaps his statement could be challenged but then again if Morocco had been deprived of oil, it had been rendered a cultural melting pot due to its characteristic blend of Arabic, European and African flavours.

Behold Darjeeling's green beauty

Delightful Darjeeling

Perched amidst greenery, Darjeeling's tea garden landscapes welcome adventure lovers as well as leisure travellers with open arms

Uzupis, a ‘country’ for dreamers and artists

A new world order

A city district born out of rebellion against the Soviet retains its streak of independence. With its own constitution, Lithuania's Uzupis is a 'country' for artists and dreamers

Spookiest places in India

Shaniwarwada Fort in Pune

Let's have a look at some of the spookiest places in our country.

Cycling from Kashmir to Kanyakumari

Eighteen-year-old Faisal Latif, who is on a 4,000 kilometre solo cycling expedition made Hyderabad a pit-stop recently

There's more to Singapore than Sentosa

Sense and sterility

So over-exposed is Singapore that you are acquainted with the city as soon as you land.

Slovakia's ode to Peeping Tom

A glimpse of the Novy most bridge and the UFO restaurant

An ode to Peeping Tom to a Warhol exhibit in wine country, Bratislava might be small but has a lot to offer

Athirapally Falls, truly the Niagra of India

Athirapally Falls

The Athirapally Falls situated near Kochi, are rightly called the Niagra of India...