Great Escapes
Places to get away to this winter holiday
The frontier town of Strahan in Tasmania, once entered, is still not easily left, finds Angus McDonald
In Jaisalmer, tour guides and hotel managers can be as interesting as the place itself, discovers Trisha Gupta
Zanzibar, in the southern hemisphere, offers a warm escape from the winter chill. But it takes a few days there for first impressions to peel off, and that's when you begin to uncover its eclectic eccentricities, writes Shubhangi Swarup
Come visit me in Goa… and it will be just the escape we so urgently need, writes Aimee Ginsburg to a friend stubbornly unconvinced of its storied charms
Past the clichés of Kenya's game parks and the Maasai, Mitali Saran finds herself in the charming, anachronistic four-car town of Lamu
After cancer and retirement, what do you do? How about climbing the Kilimanjaro and Himalayas, suggests Ashok Mahadevan
Temperatures were still in their 30s in Bombay when Rishad Saam Mehta got a call from Himachal—there was the smell of snow in the air. So he packed his bags and loaded them into his car for a 2,000 km ride