Gujarat

Gujarat has its own kind of charm, the desi charm. Come to Kutch and see a dessert that glows in the moonlight. Come to Dwarka to feel like you’re in the kingdom of Lord Krishna. Come to Somnath to see a temple that’s fallen and risen more times than history remembers. Come to Gir and realise that it still remembers the wild and the forest that the world has forgotten. The herders and farmers share the same land, their cattle grazing not far from where the lions rest. And if you’re lucky, you’ll hear the roar that still echoes through Gujarat, a reminder that the wild is not gone. Not yet.

Rajasthan

A land of gold, a sky of silver, cities full of colours and the stories of valour, that’s Rajasthan. To watch stars from a dune. To ride a camel across sand that glows gold at sunset. To listen to folk songs under an open sky. To walk across the only living fort of India. To feel the breeze coming in from a thousand windows in Hawa Mahal. To see the city palace shimmer in Pichhola Lake. To see the ‘Border’ come to life at Tanot. To sit in some mahal and wonder what life would be life if you were a rajkumar/rajkumari in an early era. Come, live inside the history.

Goa

When you’re not searching for more, you go searching for what got left behind, ease, silence, the parts of yourself that made you you. Travel long enough and you realize the best places don’t add to you. They take the weight off. Not because they give you something new, but because they give you back what you lost. And that’s exactly when you need a place that takes you back to yourself. In Goa, you return to yourself.

Kerala

If your future self ever asks you, “have you ever been to the last point of India?”, we want you to say yes. When you stand at Kanyakumari, you’ll see the meeting of three seas and feel how small and infinite you are at the same time. The beauty of the hills of Munnar and backwaters of Alleppey will keep you too busy to even check time. And that’s how Kerala will meet you, it’ll first take you to your natural pace and then show its true colour to you, while you’re atop an elephant, of course.

Tamil Nadu

They say there are over 79,000 temples in Tamil Nadu… but it never feels like too many. Because here, temples aren’t just places of prayer. They’re part of the landscape, like trees, like tea stalls, like the smell of jasmine in the air. There are so many temples that you’ll find some built around trees that’ll look older than memories itself, some hiding behind the yellow walls of Pondicherry, some tucked next to French cafes, some that meet the sea, some you’ll see smaller in size but full of sanctity. And once you leave Tamil Nadu, you’ll find one within you.