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Top Ten Books on India

August 13, 2014

One of the ways I prepare for any trip abroad is to read up before I go, then while I’m travelling, and normally when I get home (to keep the good memories fresh). With a country, or subcontinent really, as vast and as varied as India, in everything from geography and religions to histories, cultures […]

Top Ten Travel Quotes

July 13, 2014

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” – Mohammed The reason I work in the travel industry is because I truly think that it is a force for good (and I suppose staying at luxury hotels around the world is always quite fun). Travel, perhaps even more so than formal education, teaches, […]

Top Ten Things to Love at Taj Falaknuma Palace

June 11, 2014

It’s not very often that I visit a hotel which I think deserves its very own blog. So far, in the history of the Tiny Traveller’s Top Ten, only one hotel has received this honour. However, on a recent trip to Hyderabad, where I stayed at the no-words-or-pictures-do-it-justice Taj Falaknuma Palace, I knew that I had […]

Top Ten Hotels in Burma

November 3, 2013

In the last few years, no destination has garnered more press, international interest and increase in tourism than Burma. Until 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi, affectionately known in Burma as ‘The Lady’, asked tourists to stay away from the country so as not to benefit the military junta and its supporters. Following widespread political changes, […]

Top Ten Great Gatsby Locations in London

May 28, 2013

If, like me, you were a big fan of Baz Lurhmann’s re-imagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, you may now be looking for locations to relive the glamour and the glitz of the roaring twenties with your equally enamoured bon viveurs. Although, at the moment, every hotel, restaurant, bar and even shops, has got in on […]

Top Ten Travel Novels

April 20, 2013

Reading and travel have always been linked. In the days where travel to a foreign land involved months at sea, arduous treks or weeks on horseback, explorers would bring home tales of their discoveries to the delight of readers at home. Even today, with ever increasing transport links, cheap fares and business opportunities worldwide, the easiest way […]

Top Ten Colonial-Era Hotels

March 15, 2013

In a fast changing world of shabby-chic boutique hotels, large-scale corporate giants, world-wide luxury chains and heritage home-stays, there remains a rare breed: the colonial-era Hotel. Normally found in the East and/or in hot humid climes, majestic in scale with a tendency for white exteriors, often fringed with palms or surrounded by clipped green lawns, colonial-era […]