Travel style

Coast & Backwaters

Where to go

Journeys in this style

India
Our home state – a thousand years of temple building, a coast nobody has spoiled, and the largest brackish lagoon in Asia.
India
A private houseboat on the backwaters, tea hills that are cold at dawn, and a coast that has been trading with the world for two thousand years.
India
A ruined capital scattered across a boulder field, a palace lit by fifty thousand bulbs, coffee hills that smell of pepper, and a coastline nobody has spoiled yet.
India

Goa

Not the Goa of the package brochures. Portuguese churches, a river with spice farms up it, and the southern beaches where nothing much happens.
India
Indian territory closer to Myanmar than to Chennai, with the clearest water in the country and a colonial prison nobody should skip.
Neighbouring Asia
A rock fortress, tea trains through the hills and a southern coast of empty beaches – all within a few hours of each other.
Neighbouring Asia
Water villas when you want them, island guest houses when you would rather not – and the reefs that justify the seaplane.
Neighbouring Asia
A city worth more than a stopover, hill country in the north, and limestone islands in water the colour of a swimming pool.
Neighbouring Asia
A long, narrow country best travelled end to end – old Hanoi, a night on the water, and a tailor’s town on the central coast.

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