
The Other Chikmagalur: Tea Gardens, the Kudremukh Ghat, and a Loop We Almost Missed
You've Done the Coffee Estate. Now Do Chikmagalur Properly.The first Chikmagalur trip usually goes the same way.Drive up on a Friday evening. Wake up to mist...

You've Done the Coffee Estate. Now Do Chikmagalur Properly.The first Chikmagalur trip usually goes the same way.Drive up on a Friday evening. Wake up to mist...
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You've Done the Coffee Estate. Now Do Chikmagalur Properly.The first Chikmagalur trip usually goes the same way.Drive up on a Friday evening. Wake up to mist...

South Park Street Cemetery is not on most Kolkata itineraries. It sits behind a rusted gate on one of the city's loudest roads, and almost everyone walks past it. Inside: two centuries of crumbling obelisks, toppled urns, and epitaphs for people who came east and never went home. A quiet hour with a camera, somewhere between a history lesson and a ghost story.

Bangalore is one of those cities where the best therapy is leaving it for a day. Not a weekend — just a day. Out early, back before dark, with something...

Some places don't fade after one visit.They grow on you. Chikmagalur is one such destination for me — a hill town I've returned to again and again over the...

I've done most of these trips myself. Here's my personal guide to 20+ weekend getaways from Bangalore — with a season calendar, long weekend planner, and maps.

When I think back to our trip in August, one image rises above all the others: Lamai Beach in Koh Samui. Sand, sky, and the kind of sea that makes the rest of...