The Gateway Hotel is a welcome abode for the body, mind and spirit There’s something about The Gateway Hotel in Coonoor. Forget that it’s 6033 feet above sea level. Forget that it’s right above Ooty, the ‘queen of hill stations’. Just remember, it is more happiness per square foot here than anywhere else in the…
Live your freaky side at Wild Walkers, Nilgiris, Ooty Wake up to birdsong. Place your feet where bears, elephants and tigers walked the previous night. Hear the roar of the tiger and the cry of the bison under attack. Wild Walkers is jungle raj at its wildest best — filtered spring water, negligible mobile phone…
It was a traffic jam. The bus that I had boarded to go to Mahabalipuram emerged out of the Chennai central bus stand and got stuck in a jam at Saidapet, before it could get out of the city. To make it worse, it started raining rhinos. The bus stood rooted at one stop for…
United colours of Pondicherry. Where foreigners and Indians live in harmony. Where French architecture is as appealing as Indian. Where things appear dream-like. Where nothing appears to stress a tourist, the least being the weather. Even if it rains without warning, you don’t mind because of the humidity and the beach next door. It’s a…
Tear drop dials, ornamental wood for the dashboard and doors, headlamp washer system, electrically-controlled exterior mirrors, auto-dimming interior mirrors, touchscreen music system, bluetooth telephone, rain sensing wipers… the list of attention-grabbing features in the all-new Volkswagen Passat is endless. When I took the fully automatic diesel engine for a spin around Mumbai bylanes and highways,…
