Guides
Know a place before you love it
Short, honest guides to every destination we curate — written the way we'd brief a friend.
Coorg
Karnataka
Kodagu is not a place you see; it is a pace you borrow — coffee, mist and long Kodava lunches.
Gokarna
Karnataka
A temple town that happens to own four of India's loveliest beaches — and guards them with bad roads.
Hampi
Karnataka
The ruins of a city that was once richer than Rome, scattered across a boulder desert the colour of honey.
Wayanad
Kerala
Kerala's high, green attic — rainforest, spice farms and treehouses where gibbons handle the alarm clock.
Alleppey
Kerala
A town that runs on water — canals, kettuvallams and the slow green geometry of the backwaters.
Chikmagalur
Karnataka
Where Indian coffee was born — and where Karnataka keeps its highest sunrise.
Munnar
Kerala
Tea to the horizon in every direction — a hill station that is really one enormous, beautiful farm.
Dandeli
Karnataka
The Kali river runs black and lively through teak forest — south India's most reliable white water.
Mysuru
Karnataka
A city that still keeps palace hours — silk, sandalwood, jasmine and the politest traffic in India.
Kabini
Karnataka
The gentler gateway to Nagarahole — jeep tracks, a broad brown river, and Asia's largest elephant gatherings.
Badami
Karnataka
Cave temples carved into red sandstone cliffs — the workshop where south Indian architecture learned to draw.
Bheemeshwari
Karnataka
Ninety minutes from Bengaluru, the Cauvery slows into a fishing-camp valley of coracles, kayaks and crocodiles.