Great Escapes

Places to get away to this winter holiday

Strahan

The frontier town of Strahan in Tasmania, once entered, is still not easily left, finds Angus McDonald

Jaisalmer

In Jaisalmer, tour guides and hotel managers can be as interesting as the place itself, discovers Trisha Gupta

Zanzibar

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

Goa

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

Lamu

Past the clichés of Kenya’s game parks and the Maasai, Mitali Saran finds herself in the charming, anachronistic four-car town of Lamu

Kilimanjaro

After cancer and retirement, what do you do? How about climbing the Kilimanjaro and Himalayas, suggests Ashok Mahadevan

Chakrata

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

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