Travel style
Crafts and textiles
Meet the makers
Many of South Asia's great crafts are still made by hand, in workshops a few streets from the tourist sites. We arrange visits with makers, not sales floors, and there is no commission on anything you buy.
Workshops close on festival days and some weekly holidays. We check your dates with each studio before we confirm the plan.
Journeys
Routes in this style
Places
Where it fits best
Brick squares, potters and the five-tiered Nyatapola temple
Stupas, temples and royal squares in Nepal's capital valley
Newar temples, a palace museum and bronze casters across the river
A desert city of red forts, havelis and bhujia
Stepwells, murals and a palace on the hillside
A hilltop palace, a mountain railway and rural Mewar
The pink city of forts, bazaars and royal hotels
The blue city below Mehrangarh Fort
Tigers among lakes, ruins and a thousand-year-old fort
A painted palace in the hills an hour from Jaipur
Painted merchant towns of the northern desert
Lakes, palaces and the slowest days in Rajasthan
Ladakh's oldest temple murals, in a village of apricot trees
Gateway city on the Brahmaputra, with Kamakhya on its hill
Naga hill capital, war memorial and the Hornbill Festival
Vaishnava monasteries on a great Brahmaputra river island
The Apatani rice valley and its September music festival
Theyyam country, looms and the old Malabar forts
Five centuries of spice traders on one small peninsula
Kerala's cultural capital, temples and the great Pooram
The great Portuguese-era houses of south Goa's villages
The Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and the Mughal river bank
Nawabi architecture, Awadhi kebabs and chikankari
Dawn boats, evening aarti and the oldest lanes on the Ganges
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Rooms that suit it
Kathmandu's most characterful hotel, built in Newar style around brick courtyards set with carved windows, doors and pillars rescued from old valley buildings. It sits in …
The former home of the Maharajas of Jaipur, run by Taj, set in large Mughal-style gardens about 15 minutes from the old city. It is the …
A low-rise resort on the eastern edge of Jaipur, built as a Rajasthani fort-village with courtyards, pools, luxury tents and private villas. Quieter and more private …
A family-owned palace hotel in a village in the Aravalli hills, about 42 km northwest of Jaipur. Its painted Durbar Hall and mirrored Sheesh Mahal are …
An 18th-century white marble palace that covers its own island in Lake Pichola, reached only by boat. Built as a royal summer retreat and run by …
A palace-style resort on the eastern shore of Lake Pichola, with domed pavilions, courtyards, gardens and rooms opening onto shared or semi-private pools. It faces the …
A golden sandstone Art Deco palace on Chittar Hill above Jodhpur, completed in 1943 and still home to the royal family of Marwar in one wing. …
A boutique hotel inside the walled old city of Jodhpur, built around a restored 18th-century haveli directly below Mehrangarh Fort. Clean contemporary rooms, a courtyard pool …
A luxury tented resort on the edge of Ranthambore National Park, with large canvas tents set in landscaped gardens, a spa and naturalist-led safaris. It is …
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