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Insider: Guntra Lipska, Abu Dhabi

Desert culture is still one of the most authentic characteristics of Abu Dhabi. Even though the Bedouins no longer live in the desert or dive for pearls, they continue to regularly organise cultural events...

Insider: Damien Carlier, Dubai

If anything in Dubai can be labelled underground, then it’s Alserkal Avenue. This feels like an absolutely unique place compared to the Dubai we’ve known up until now. The project began in 2007 as a private initiative by Abdelmonem bin Eisa Alserkal, the patron and developer of the area...

Baker Street, Pondicherry

French baguettes and croissants, sandwiches and pizzas, cakes, pastries and ice-cream, macaroons, muffins and much more...

Hidesign Café, Pondicherry

Pondicherry is home to the most well-known Indian leather accessories brand Hidesign and also to its fancy Hidesign flagship store-museum...

Sadak Ali&Brothers, Mumbai

Pashmina wool shawls and scarves is one of the most sought after souvenirs taken home from India. They are abundantly available all across...

Misr, Dushanbe

The restaurant Misr (Egypt in Arabic language) is located on the Rudaki Avenue, the central street of the city. Misr is advisable for its good Tajik-Arab cuisine and adequate prices...

Amankora, Bhutan

Amankora, which combines "aman" or "peace" in Sanskrit with "kora" or a "circular pilgrimage" in Bhutanese language, actually presents...

Art&Design Book Store, Mumbai

Mumbai Art & Design Book Store is not merely a book-store, but a materialization of one's passion. Its creator and owner...

Vanilla County Homestay, Kerala

Vanilla County Homestay is a good place to get an insider's view of India. This property, built over than 60 years ago and surrounded by spice...

Vadodara, Gujarat

Vadodara, formerly known as Baroda, while not a wildly popular touristic destination, is home of the famous faculty of arts of...

Santiniketan, West Bengal

Santiniketan, a beloved town of the Nobel Prize laureate writer Rabindranath Tagore, is located in West Bengal about 180 km north...

The Manor, Delhi

A wonderful Delhi boutique hotel The Manor is named among the 100 Best Hotels in The world by The Sunday Times Travel UK 2011...

Cholamandal Artists' Village, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Chennai is a major cultural center in India and the Artists' Village, established next to it in 1966 - the largest artists' commune in India...

Alsisar Haveli, Jaipur, Rajasthan

Jaipur Alsisar Haveli hotel is the very embodiment of the luxury of bygone centuries. Woodcarvings, ornate canopies and textiles...

Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, Bharatpur, Rajasthan

There is scanty information in travel industry sources about Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary in Bharatpur town of Rajasthan...

Chunilal Mulchand & Co, Mumbai

It's a popular address in Mumbai if you are about to refresh your home interior with new curtains, tablecloth, bed linen, cushions, hammock...

ABU DHABI AND DUBAI: BETWEEN AUTHENTICITY AND A MIRAGE, Abu Dhabi

Insider: Anna Mihailova Adamsky, Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv is a very welcoming place, no matter who you are and where you come from. It is also very laid back, for better or worse, but I like it...

Carte Blanche, Pondicherry

Carte Blanche perhaps is one of the best restaurants in Pondicherry. It is hiding in a courtyard of the hotel L'Orient, housed in an 18th century...

Godrej Nature's Basket, Mumbai

If you happen to visit the store of the best natural cosmetics brand in India Forest Essentials in Mumbai, be sure to drop in the nearby...

Segafredo Zanetti Espresso Dushanbe, Dushanbe

The first Segafredo café in Tajikistan is what any traveler can dream of! After crisscrossing mountains and experiencing authentic Tajik lifestyle to the very core of it...

National Library of Tajikistan, Dushanbe

The National Library of Tajikistan was officially opened in 2012. A nine-storey building with a total space of 45.000m² and containing approximately 10 million books is the largest library...

Amangalla, Sri Lanka

Amangalla in Sri Lank is housed in an ancient, colonial style building dating back to 1684, which has served as a hotel ever since 1863...

Vismaya, Kerala

It's quite a breathtaking sensation when Vismaya Villa finally come s into view after all that travelling along narrow meandering streets...

Mumbai's Galleries Route, Mumbai

BMB gallery is set in a historic English colonial time building, and its founder is an artist and art curator Bose Krishnamachari...

Kolkata's Galleries Route, West Bengal

A small art gallery Experimenta, hidden in a pathway behind shops that sell saris and other apparels, is highly regard in the...

Delhi's Galleries Route, Delhi

Nature Morte is one of the most renowned contemporary art galleries in Delhi. Located right next to it, Talwar Gallery...

Auroville, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu

Auroville is yet another creative village, situated 2 hours drive from Cholamandal Artists' Village and bringing together people of goodwill...

DakshinaChitra Ethnographic Open Air Museum, Tamil Nadu

DakshinaChitra Open Air Museum is a worthwhile destination for those who wish to dive deeper into India's culture and ethnography...

Mandawa, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan

A small 18th century Mandawa town 190 km off Jaipur is famous for its marvelous haveli architecture. The town was once established by...

The Bungalow on the Beach, Tranquebar

It's a small, bizarre and somewhat mystical place on Earth. Tranquebar is little fishing village, located on the Bay of Bengal is about 3 h drive...