India

The Beatles, yoga, ashrams, Ganges – Rishikesh is India’s capital of chillaxing in style. For those interested in mixing wellness with spirituality, few places in North India can match this destination. 

Ladakh is India’s truest travel frontier, but two must-see stops in the region are Diskit and Thiksey.

The geographically isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands are rarely visited by Western travelers, but recent years and hotel openings have seen this region’s popularity boom.

It’s the Amanbagh at Alwar that makes for the best possible luxury stay in Alwar, a majestic (and spooky) slice of Indian history.

Richard Holkar grew up in a piece of Indian history: Ahilya Fort. The story Holkar’s family, is deeply ingrained in Maheshwar.

With the history of the Sikhs, architecture, and the city’s status as a hotbed of Punjabi culture, Amritsar is a place where travelers can delve deeper.

The famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is a towering, gilded structure renowned as both the world’s richest temple and one of its most mysterious.

For lovers of all things tribal in Nagaland, there is a certain celebration that blows away other tribal gatherings in Asia: the Hornbill Festival.

Things at Kanha are laid back; finding a tiger isn’t as important as enjoying the sunsets on the dusty roads and forests teeming with deer and birds.

Nowhere in Asia has such a diversity of wonders — tribes, mountains, deserts, beaches — and for travelers willing to go a little further, India is alive.

Travelers frequent Sikkim for its Instagram-worthy high altitude lakes, farms, and pine-wood forest hiking. It’s important to know what not to miss.

“The Yabgo dynasty ruled this area for 2,000 years,” the king says. The humble Yabgo Mohammad Khan Kacho rules over the buckwheat fields and quiet stone streets of Turtuk on the Ladakh’s Pakistan borderlands.