Oberoi Hotels are serene, almost surreal retreats from the colourful chaos and cloying heat of India. They’re famed for their architecture, impeccable service, food, attention to cultural detail. Welcome, your royal highness This is Oberoi Rajvilas in Jaipur, which looks and feels like one of the magnificent palaces gracing Rajasthan. Travel-weary guests are greeted with wideContinue reading “Treated like a princess at Oberoi Rajvilas”
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10 tips from an Indian man on safety for women travelling in India
Women travellers to India are much reduced in numbers after high-profile rape cases. Here’s a list of travel safety tips in India for women, compiled by an Indian man, looking at the situation from his viewpoint.
How travel tests you
This is how travel tests you. It challenges courage, resilience, tolerance and mocks your comfort zones. Which is a good thing.
Is it safe for women travelling solo in India?
Groped, grabbed, followed, leered at and continually harassed. That’s the experience of many Western women travelling solo in India and why they shouldn’t go there alone, Georgia Arlott wrote in London’s The Telegraph.
We’re travel culture vultures, sort of
When Australians travel they like to become culture vultures. Up to a point. Because many still prefer English-speaking countries, a new survey reveals.
Ariane discovers the rat temple of Rajasthan
Intrepid traveller Ariane Tatas thought the Indian cab driver said he was taking her to a red temple….
Husband Hunting in the Raj by Anne de Courcy
Ships which took women to colonial India to bag a husband were known as the Fishing Fleet. These tenacious women had little lasting legacy. The British Empire was entirely dominated by men and it’s their names in the history books about the sub-continent. Until now.
Did the hospital prank victim die of shame?
The suicide of an Indian-born nurse at the King Edward VII’s Hospital, who had been the victim of a stupid Australian radio phone prank, raises many questions. A migrant from a traditional country where family honour is paramount, may be a clue to her tragedy.
India: Cows, camels and chillies for good luck
You know that scene in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel where the British retirees are on the bus and it’s on a collision course with a tanker on the highway? It’s happened to me too.
Travel Deals: Australia, Europe, Greece, Spice Route
Our travel deals this month include getaways on Daydream Island, cruising the Spice Route, winter in Rome, Vienna and Prague, and discounts for a fabulous summer in Greece – still a much-loved playground despite the euro crisis.
