VANAMCOVE 🧘 Wellness & Slow weekends
Yoga, aartis and digital detox.
The weekend you'll talk about all week is closer than you think.
Coorg
The OG Bangalore escape — and still the best. Coffee estates, Abbey Falls, Dubare's elephants and the Namdroli…
Dahanu & Bordi
Chikoo orchards, quiet beaches and one of India's last Parsi villages — three hours north of Mumbai, past the …
Goa
The weekend flight Mumbai was built for: 50 minutes to a different country's worth of food and coast. Go with …
Gokarna
Om, Half Moon, Kudle — a string of beaches connected by cliff trails, with a temple town at one end. Gokarna i…
Haridwar
Where the Ganga leaves the mountains — Har Ki Pauri's evening aarti is one of India's great rituals. Haridwar …
Igatpuri
The trekking capital of Maharashtra — Kalsubai, the state's highest peak, plus the Dhamma Giri Vipassana centr…
Kasauli
Shimla's quieter cousin: a pedestrian-only cantonment, deodar forests, the Gilbert Trail and Monkey Point's 36…
Kerala Backwaters
A slow crawl through the palm-fringed waterways south of Kochi: houseboat, toddy shop, paddy fields that flood…
Kovalam & Varkala
Two famous beaches an hour apart: Kovalam's crescent coves and Varkala's cliff-top promenade with the Arabian …
Lansdowne
A living cantonment town at 1,706 m where the Garhwal Rifles kept the construction bans in place — no malls, n…
Mahabaleshwar
The Queen of Hill Stations at 1,353 m — strawberry farms, Venna Lake, Tapola's backwaters and viewpoint after …
Manesar & Sohna
Pool villas, Damdama Lake and spa resorts on Gurugram's doorstep — the weekend that requires zero planning cou…
Matheran
No cars, no honking, horses for luggage and a toy train crawling up the mountain — Matheran is Asia's only veh…
Mathura & Vrindavan
The twin towns of Krishna's childhood — 5,000 temples, ghats humming with aartis and street food that's been p…
Nahan
A ridge-top town in the Shivaliks with a royal garden, a huge natural lake nearby and prices that forget it's …
Rishikesh
White-water rafting, the Beatles' ashram, yoga schools and a café scene that keeps getting better — Rishikesh …
Shivpuri Rafting
Sixteen kilometres of Grade II–III rapids on the Ganga with the Rajaji hills closing in, plus riverside camps,…
South Goa
The quiet half of Goa: Palolem's crescent, the cliff coves of Agonda, Portuguese-era churches and seafood cook…
Varanasi
The oldest living city in the world: 80 ghats on the Ganga's west bank, the evening Ganga Aarti, and boat ride…
Yercaud
Ooty without the queue: a 1,500 m hill town ringed by coffee and orange groves, 20 hairpin bends up from Salem…