India

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is the most fascinating of all the 'toy train' routes in India. With a 610 mm (2 ft) gauge, it's the narrowest to be found on the subcontinent and it has the unique attraction for a mountain ...

Opened in 1907, this narrow-gauge railway is a charming and rather eccentric example of an early 20th-century engineering enterprise. Traversing difficult mountainous terrain, the train chugs along a track that has over 200 sharp bends and crosses 120 bridges. With a ...

The Alpine Pass route is one of the great European hikes. It crosses Switzerland from Sargans in the east on the Lichtenstein border, to Montreux in the west on Lac Leman. It crosses sixteen passes along its 354-km (220-mi) length, and ...

An air of excitement builds audibly as the train pulls into Kalka station. Railways enthusiasts crowd round to examine the powerful little engine, as street food sellers jostle for your attention. A piercing whistle announces that it's time to board the ...

There cannot be a more relaxing winter vacation than floating along the waters of Kerala in a traditional houseboat. The backwaters of Kerala are a labyrinthine network of lakes, canals, estuaries, and deltas of the 44 rivers that drain into the ...

Lying a mere 350 m (1,150 ft) off northern Sumatra is the tiny, volcanic island of Weh, surrounded by the Andaman Sea, Weh is the northernmost point of Indonesia's archipelago, and was formed during the Pleistocene age by an eruption that ...

Did you ever compare the price from this to that? We all are aware that iPhone 14 in India has been launched at starting price of INR 79, 900/- up to INR 1,49,900/- depending upon which variant you choose and the ...

The most extensive industrial city in China, Shanghai nestles by the river mouth of the Yangtze. It is a captivating, frantic city in which the finest of conventional and modern China blend. The iconic skyline of Pudong, the world-class cuisine and ...

Ayurveda, which lists cannabis as one of the five essential plants and considers both its potential for misuse and its medical applications, is aware of the plant's therapeutic benefits. Only a few thousand years later, cannabis is the newest health travel ...

Welcome to Fiji's Largest island, at a chunky 145 km (90 mi) by 105 km (65 mi), Viti Levu is divided in half geographically and climatically and climatically by a rugged north-south mountain range peaking at Mount Victoria, also known as ...

One of the main festivals in India is Chaitra Navratri, during which devotees offer prayers to Goddess Durga. Nearly all of us are aware of how to commemorate this event as Navratri 2022 approaches this year, but very few are aware ...

The now notorious Ko Pha Ngan is an island in the Gulf of Thailand, about halfway between Ko Samui, to the south, and Ko Tao, to the north. Twenty years ago the island received just a tiny trickle of backpackers looking ...