What's New
Quality flying
DEL-DXB-IAH/SFO-DXB-DEL - Dubai's Emirates is one of the best when it comes to quality and services
Friendship on the fly
Never met your Facebook friends If they're on the same flight, you could share face time with them
Tara's joyride
Tara Air's morning flight to Lukla in the lap of the Khumbu Himalaya is a thrill-a-minute joyride
Flight to Mal
Q2 710/711 BOM-MLE-BOM - New direct flight from Mumbai to Mal is less clunky than most single-aisle aircrafts
Travel Classic Blue highways, 1978
This great travelogue, by William Least Heat-Moon, goes on a gorgeous trawl through the back roads of America
These little pigs, 1884
Match up to the cheek of the authors of this hilarious nickname map of the USA
Kashmir houseboat, 1910
British India started converting doonga boats to the floating comfort palaces -- Kashmir's houseboats
Rough and rumble
The rumble, shake and twist of the two-valve motor... the Royal Enfield really is a time machine
Rickshaw tours
There is no better way to tour the walled city of Shahjahanabad than to hop on to a rickshaw
Economy is good
AA 292/293 DEL-ORD-DEL - Fifteen hours straight journey to the US in American Airlines' economy class is comfortable enough
Comfort design
LX 147/146 DEL-ZRH-DEL - Swiss Flight maintains design sensibility and enhanced comfort
Opulence defined
EK 201/DXB-JFK - All prayers are granted on the Emirates A380 flight from Dubai to New York
Taj Express, 1964
The introduction of this train was a turning point in the history of Indian tourism
Indian animals, C. 1830
Naturalist Thomas Hardwicke brought to light lovely watercolour paintings of beautiful specimens
Spy games, 1879
Sarat Chandra Das, headmaster of the Bhutia Boarding School, immersed himself in Tibetan studies
A grand old man
Patrick Leigh-Fermor, a man in love with different places, vibrant cultures, and most of all different people
































