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STAR TREK
Celebrities spell out their favourite summer destinations in a chat
with Jyothi Venkatesh
Partying in panvel
SALMAN KHAN
IF you ask which is my favourite holiday place in the entire world, without hesitating even for a minute, I’d say that it is an exotic lush location with lots of open spaces, where I make it a point to go at least once in every three months, with all the members of my family, including my parents, brothers, my sister Alvira and brother-in-law Atul Agnihotri.
Bon
Voyage
The holiday
season’s here: So choose your place. Make your bookings but do
ensure you know what you’re paying for: visas, guide fees, airport
charges, details of inclusive meals, entrance charges. And then pack
up and leave. India and the whole world are alive with holiday
destinations. Here are our personal choices, write Hugh
and Colleen Gantzer
Best beach holidays
Goa: There’s
a beach for all reasons. We like Calangute and dine in the great beach
shack of Souza-Lobos. Visit Old Goa and its historic Portuguese
churches. Take the Sunset Cruise. The casino ships are unique to Goa,
a great experience. Try coconut feni and cashew nuts.
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FINE BALANCE
Members of China’s Circus Group of Henan province perform during the Hi Seoul Festival in Seoul. The performance features
acrobatic movements with Chinese martial arts — AP/PTI
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Leh’s
lost glory
Little remains of nature in
her original pristine, glorious form in this beautiful yet stark
region of Ladakh. Stanzin Kunzang Angmo
on the need to conserve environment in this seat of a great
civilisation
AS
I stroll down the streets in Leh, my mind meanders down memory lane,
revisiting all those moments of my wonderful childhood. All those
childhood pranks suddenly come alive, being naughty at school,
laughing with my friends. What remains as a backdrop for all those
years is the pristine purity of the land itself.
History
beckons
Jammu, gateway to the
sprawling mountain regions of Kashmir and Ladakh, is currently being
developed as a heritage city, reports Suraj
Saraf
FIVE
prestigious heritage projects are presently under execution in Jammu
city to help boost tourism. Jammu constitutes the doorway to the
Kashmir valley and Ladakh. The first one is the Mubarak Mandi project.
There is a huge complex of palaces of the old Dogra ruling dynasty
spread over 120 kanals.
Carnival
to remember
If you are in London
during the tulip season, you must visit Regent’s Park to see these
flowers in full bloom, says Daksha Hathi
THERE
was a tulip carnival on at Regent’s Park in London in April, and the
good news was that it was free! This huge garden for the public, in
Central London, had gone mad with tulip fever, and it was hard to
cover the whole visit in one day. On my first trip, I fell upon the
tulip deluge in two long rows in its floral court.
On
the movie trail
Journey has been a
recurrent motif in our films. Deepa Karmalkar
takes a look at Hindi films that had travel as the protagonist
RECENTLY
when filmmaker Anurag Kashyap missed his flight while attending CPH-PIX
film festival in Copenhagen, Denmark, he had to take six trains to
reach Rome! This unique travel adventure has inspired him to make a
new film. Well, this won’t be
the first time a filmmaker is incorporating element of travel in his
film.
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