News & Updates
Heritage Booking Launches: Curated Indian Heritage Stays, Now in One Place
A New Chapter for Heritage Travel in India We are delighted to announce the official launch of Heritage Booking — India's dedicated platform for discovering and booking authentic heritage accommodation. From royal palaces in Rajasthan to colonial bungalows in the Nilgiris, from century-old havelis …
Experiences
A Night Under the Stars: The Magic of Desert Camp Stays in Jaisalmer
The Thar Desert After Dark Jaisalmer's Sam Sand Dunes, 45 kilometres west of the Golden City, are the closest point in Rajasthan to true Saharan-scale desert landscape. By day, they are beautiful in their emptiness. By night — with no artificial light for miles, the air completely still, and the Mi…
Destination Guide
Varanasi: A Complete Guide to India's Oldest Living City
The City That Never Sleeps Varanasi — also known as Banaras, Kashi, or the City of Light — is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Earth. Scholars estimate it has been occupied for at least 3,000 years, predating both Rome and Athens. It sits on the western bank of the sacred Ganges r…
Travel Tips
Packing for a Heritage Hotel Stay: What to Bring (and Leave Behind)
Packing Differently for Heritage Travel Staying in a heritage property requires a slightly different approach to packing than a conventional hotel stay. These are historic buildings with specific environmental conditions, dress customs and practical quirks. Pack thoughtfully and you will be comfort…
Heritage & History
Kerala Backwaters: Cruising Through a Living Heritage Landscape
A Landscape Born of Trade Kerala's backwaters — a 900-kilometre network of lagoons, lakes, rivers and canals parallel to the Arabian Sea coast — are often described as one of the world's most beautiful natural landscapes. But they are also one of India's most significant heritage landscapes: a syst…
Experiences
Sunrise at the Taj Mahal: The Complete Visitor Guide
Why Sunrise Is the Only Time to Visit The Taj Mahal is the most visited monument in India, receiving up to 70,000 visitors on peak days. In the midday heat, with tour groups pressing through every gate, it is possible to feel simultaneously underwhelmed and overwhelmed. But at sunrise — with the fi…
Travel Tips
How to Choose the Perfect Heritage Hotel: 7 Things to Look For
The Heritage Hotel Difference Staying in a heritage hotel is fundamentally different from staying in a modern business hotel. You are sleeping in a building with a history — and that history shapes everything from the architecture of your room to the stories your host will tell you at dinner. But h…
Food & Cuisine
Dal Baati Churma to Laal Maas: A Royal Rajasthani Food Guide
A Cuisine Born of Necessity and Royalty Rajasthani cuisine is a paradox: it emerged from one of India's harshest landscapes — a vast desert with scarce water and seasonal produce — yet it became one of the most flavourful and celebrated culinary traditions in the country. Necessity drove innovation…
Heritage & History
The Lost Art of Rajasthani Fresco Painting
Walls That Tell Stories Walk into any heritage haveli in Rajasthan's Shekhawati region and you step into a vast open-air gallery. Every surface — walls, ceilings, pillars, archways — is covered in intricate paintings that narrate epics, celebrate harvests, document royal hunts and catalogue a world…