The Golden Triangle
Delhi, Agra and Jaipur with the Taj at sunrise and nights in family-run havelis.
The same journeys and filters as the grid, set out so you can compare them line by line.
Delhi, Agra and Jaipur with the Taj at sunrise and nights in family-run havelis.
Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur by private car, sleeping in palaces that are still homes.
The camel fair at Pushkar, then two nights in a desert camp beyond Jaisalmer.
Three nights afloat on a rice barge, then tea estates and spice gardens in Munnar.
Fourteen days of classical Ayurveda by the sea, prescribed by a resident doctor.
Monasteries, high passes and a night by Pangong Lake, with a day built in to acclimatise.
Dawn boats on the Ganges, the evening aarti and the silk weavers of the old city.
Temples before the crowds, a night in a ryokan and a day with a Nara woodcarver.
Kandy, the hill-country train and a tea planter’s bungalow above Ella.
Water temples, the Jatiluwih rice terraces and a morning with a Balinese priest.
Night markets, a cooking school in the hills and the temples of the walled city.
Petra by candlelight, then two nights in a Bedouin family’s camp in Wadi Rum.
The souks of Marrakech, the Atlas passes and a night under Saharan stars.
Stone Town’s carved doors, a spice farm and three slow days on the east coast.
The Alhambra at opening time, Seville’s tiled courtyards and the white villages.
The old city on foot, a Bosphorus crossing and dawn over Cappadocia’s valleys.
Palermo’s markets, Baroque Noto and a boat between the volcanic Aeolian islands.
Cusco, the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu on the first train of the morning.
Markets, mezcal villages and the candlelit cemeteries of the Day of the Dead.
Cartagena’s walled city, then coffee farms and wax palms in the Cocora Valley.
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