[ad_1] One of the tea estates that will be part of Chai@Vagamon | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT With her new project Chai@Vagamon, social entrepreneur Lakshmi Menon hopes to give tourists to the hill station a new set of experiences that extend beyond the typical offroading, tea garden and pine forest visits. She wants travellers to […]
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[ad_1] Flying from Singapore to Kertajati is an experience: from the aircraft’s window, one can see the Indonesian sea dotted with numerous islands. The breathtaking non-metro destinations of West Java now witness an enhanced flow of tourists thanks to the newly-added Embraer flights from Scoot, the affordable carrier of Singapore Airlines. From September last year, […]
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[ad_1] ‘In reality, vacations are anything but unoccupied.’ | Photo Credit: Illustrated by Allen Shaw My sister has been invited to a destination wedding in Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. The programme seemed eminently bucketlist-worthy. The hosts had planned excursions to see the famous waterfalls and go on safaris. Then much to her dismay, my sister […]
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[ad_1] Let there be light! For it’s the season to celebrate. A fresh coat of paint, a new wallpaper, a change of soft furnishings, or upgrading kitchen appliances, can brighten up the occasion. Here’s how you can do it: Courtesy: Niana Begin with a detox Forget the post-Diwali detox that begins with lemon and honey […]
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[ad_1] We may have bid adieu to vacation season but there’s no reason to let go of the holiday vibe. Especially if you embrace this interior decor trend that’s here to stay: tropicalcore. A departure from the neutrals that have dominated home design for long, the idea behind tropicalcore is simple: bringing home a tropical […]
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[ad_1] Explore Cubbon Park @ Bangalore Local Walks For Sriram Aravamudan, a writer, blogger and video maker focussed on Bengaluru’s culture since the early 2000s, kickstarting Bangalore Local Walks was “a happy turn of events”. “I was invited by the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) in mid-2022 to conduct a local history walk in […]
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[ad_1] Discarded wood barn homes at The Carpenters Ark | Photo Credit: Mary Malini Cowbells at A Bee In The Garden Every Christmas, Soumya Thomas-Joseph and her team at the Bengaluru-based studio craft a range of handmade products such as ornaments, gift bags, fabric baskets, and Christmas stockings using locally sourced fabric. “Our raw materials […]
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[ad_1] Sitting and working with my hands at a loom in Kathmandu, I come to realise that the meditative art of weaving was not what I had hoped it would be. Instead, as a left-handed person, I was floundering with getting the warp and weft in the right order, and found that the malleable water […]
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[ad_1] A quick Google search on travel trends for 2023 indicates several holiday patterns that are bound to see a rise — solo trips, vacations influenced by films and social media, and tours to the metaverse. But one trend that seems to be on almost every survey’s list is the rise of slow travel. Read […]
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[ad_1] Better financial stability, less need to support the younger generation, and the desire to enjoy life after being cooped up at home during the pandemic is seeing the silver generation stepping out more today Better financial stability, less need to support the younger generation, and the desire to enjoy life after being cooped up […]
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