India, planned the way you actually want to see it

Two very different Goas, stitched together on one coastline: the north's shack music and market chaos give way to the south's slow palm groves and whitewashed chapels. Between the two you'll find limestone forts, ferry crossings, feni over ice, and fish curry that tastes different in every village.

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Two hill capitals joined by a river valley — Gangtok's butter-lamp mornings and neon-lit market evenings, a frozen lake at altitude, then Darjeeling's steep tea slopes and a pre-dawn climb to watch Kanchenjunga catch fire at sunrise.

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A three-part South Indian loop that keeps changing character — Mysore's lamp-lit Wodeyar palaces, Coorg's fog-wrapped coffee slopes and waterfalls, and Ooty's tea-carpeted hills, tied together by a UNESCO narrow-gauge railway.

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India's wettest state, and its greenest — Shillong's pine ridges and guitar-shop cafés, a knee-deep trek to a bridge grown from living roots, a boat that seems to float on air over the Umngot, and Cherrapunji's waterfalls dropping through permanent mist.

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Kashmir moves at the pace of a shikara — Dal Lake at dawn, tulip beds and chinar shade in the Mughal gardens, apple orchards on the road to Pahalgam, and a cable car climbing into Gulmarg's snowfields. It's the gentlest, most photogenic corner of India.

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Fort Kochi's cantilevered fishing nets and spice-scented lanes, Munnar's tea slopes rolling to the horizon, an elephant sighting on a Periyar lake cruise, and a night drifting through Alleppey's backwaters on a private rice-barge — Kerala's greatest hits.

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A sliver of France on the Coromandel coast — bougainvillea spilling over mustard-yellow walls, boulangeries tucked into White Town's grid, the experimental township of Auroville nearby, and long, near-empty beaches just past the edge of town.

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A pair of Sahyadri hill towns built for a long weekend — Arthur's Seat staring into fog over the Konkan, pony rides and paddleboats at Venna Lake, the wind-scoured plateau of Panchgani, and strawberry rows you can pick yourself. Pratapgad's Maratha ramparts add history to the cool 18–25°C air.

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A hill station that never got crowded — the Shevaroys rise just an hour above Salem, wrapped in coffee estates, orange groves and silver-oak forest roads. Row across the lake at its centre, watch the plains dissolve into haze from Pagoda Point, and taste coffee where the beans were actually grown.

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The unhurried side of coastal Karnataka. Gokarna wraps a working temple town around a run of quiet coves — Om, Kudle, Half Moon, Paradise — linked by cliff paths and country boats. Two hours south, Udupi offers the 13th-century Sri Krishna Matha, the roots of an entire vegetarian cuisine, and the basalt columns of St Mary's Island.

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