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Top Ten Travel Adventures of 2014

March 4, 2015

It’s been a fair few months since I last uploaded a post – the reason being that I’ve been doing an awful lot of globetrotting! Having stayed still for the last couple of weeks (or at least gallivanted closer to home), I’ve finally had the time to compile my top ten travel experiences of 2014. Whether it […]

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 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 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 Hotels in Rajasthan

April 28, 2013

One of India’s most beautiful states, Rajasthan, or the ‘land of the kings’, is a dream for any first-time visitor to India. With an endless supply of forts, fairy-tale lakes, tiger-filled forests, grand temples and ancient cities, Rajasthan is a kaleidoscope of bright colours, charming people, delicious food and beautiful landscapes just waiting to be […]

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 […]