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  • Reserve early for these popular ice hotels that provide heart-warming comforts in frigid climes

    Where to chill out in the cold

    The Icehotel in Sweden, the largest of its kind in the world, is reconstructed in winter each year. Visitors are provided cold weather sleeping bags and reindeer skins to sleep on.

  • PARIS INSIDER

    Elegant Paris is among the world’s most popular tourist destinations. With its reputation for luxury chic, it can often feel overpriced and overdone. But on the flip side, Paris has always welcomed students, artists, and freeloaders. It remains a captivating city full of affordable, enjoyable activities. As any Parisian will tell you, style is an attitude—and it’s free. Pick a street-facing café table, order a glass of wine, slow down, and watch the world go by. Voilà!

  • WHOLE NINE YARDS

    You can’t escape the Paithani in Aurangabad. The sari is everywhere. On hoardings, tourist pamphlets, and bus stops sharing space with misspelt graffiti and Bollywood heart-throbs. If the advertising is to be believed, the local weave is second only to Banarasi silk, and “only because the holy city has better marketing,” a textile merchant told me as he unfurled a sari the colour of brooding amethyst.

  • BIRDS OF A FEATHER

    The winding road was a bit bumpy in places, but I didn’t mind. The uneven path only heightened my expectations of what lay ahead. I was about 70 km from Bengaluru, flanked by parrot-green sugarcane fields, looking for the sleepy hamlet of Kokkarebellur. The village is named after its migratory bird population (kokkare is stork), which arrive in the months following the monsoon. For centuries now, legions of spot-billed pelicans and painted storks have descended upon this otherwise nondescript piece of Karnataka, filling the verdurous landscape with flecks of white.

  • THE WRITING ON THE WALL

    Considered a tool of vandals and anarchists through most of the twentieth century, graffiti has now come to be accepted as a form of public art and expression. In fact, it’s even the subject of research by serious academics, who have come to classify it as street art, mural art, or urban art.

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  • Posted by Admin

    Interview on Radio One Mumbai

    Listen to Nat Geo Traveller India's Editor-in-Chief Niloufer Venkatraman and Publishing Director Manas Mohan talk to RJ Hrishi K about the magazine's first anniversary issue.

  • Posted by Natasha Sahgal

    Cartwheels in Christchurch

    “Just ask where the circus people live. See you then!” These were definitely the vaguest directions I had ever received. Yet, there I was a month later, walking around the streets of Christchurch in New Zealand, hoping to find my host with these fuzzy directions. Mary, who I had met only briefly in Auckland, had invited me to spend time with her and the students of Circo Arts, a university of circus performance. It felt a little silly asking the convenience store owner about the “circus people.” But he didn’t seem baffled by my question, “It’s in the next lane, towards the end. You’ll see the flags.”

  • Posted by Azeem Banatwalla

    WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE

    I took a few days off to kick back and enjoy a balcony with a mountain view in McLeod Ganj earlier this month. It was my first time there, so I was expecting big things based on all I’ve heard and read about the place. I got there early on a Friday morning, when the town was just waking up

  • Posted by Neha Dara

    WHY DO YOU TRAVEL?

    One of the first posts up on our nascent Facebook page asks readers why we travel. The answers have been varied: From food to curiosity, to the desire for new sights, smells and experiences.