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Some holidays involve a deckchair. Himachal Pradesh offers an alternative: a cliff edge, a river full of opinions and a trail that begins politely and ends in thin air. The state is a long staircase...

Himachal has a few headline acts, and every one of them has a crowd. Shimla fills up, Manali queues and the cafes in the most photographed valleys know the regulars by name. Meanwhile, entire valleys...

Family trips have a way of exposing weak planning. Someone gets carsick, someone refuses lunch, someone discovers the one tourist spot that closes on Mondays. Kerala handles this better than most...

Himachal Pradesh has a reputation for being easy to love and surprisingly easy to get wrong. The mountains do not move, but the roads slow down, the weather changes its mind, and an hour on the map...

Couples tend to want the same three things from a resort: privacy, a view and the sense that nobody is in a hurry. Kerala delivers all three, though not everywhere and not equally. The state stretches...

Every couple planning a trip to Kerala hits the same fork in the road. One path climbs into tea country, where mist drifts across the hills and evenings call for a shawl. The other slides onto flat...