Travel + Leisure

TRAVEL + LEISURE / MARCH 2016

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Here & Now

15 News, Trends, Discoveries
A creative scene comes to Chippendale’s once rough-and-tumble streets; Santa
Monica’s main street has become a gathering place for artists; a small ship that
navigates remote waterways and lets guest cruise for a day; Samridhi Ganeriwalla
CEO, Little West Street, likes to go deep into local culture; Sonali Bandre Behl
shares her insight on a trip to Pench National Park; make-up maestro Bobbi Brown’s
tips on the most marvelous way to see Botswana and South Africa; the lazy
person’s guide to having a good time in Pune; sports, art, culture, events, and more.

Beyond

33 Spotlight Parisian tastemakers are reinvigorating an old-fashioned corner of
Normandy, adding modern fl ourishes to a rural French idyll. By Rebecca Rose
Photographs by Celine Clanet

40 Life On Wheels: There’s poetry in the rattling movement and the exquisite
cameos framed liked paintings on the windows. Onboard the opulent and
recently refurbished Deccan Odyssey, one revisits the historical and the modern
by slowing oneself to the pace of experiential travel, findsKalpana Sunder

44 Roxanne Bamboat is greeted by verdant green valleys and all the world’s tranquility
in Coorg -- exactly what she expected. But, a coffee picking exercise later, the place
presented a whole new dimension.Photographs by Adil Jain

46 Musing over exotic islands in foreign lands is passé. Back home, our pretty little dots
have claimed our next vacation dates. Here’s why this might be the right time to
introduce your kids to the treasures at home.By Anwesha Sanyal

50 Air Time British Airways is now fl ying the Airbus A380 between London
and Miami. Richa Wadhera fi nds out what’s making the upper deck the most
happening place at 30,000 feet.

In Every Issue

Editor’s Note 8

Contributors 12

Wish You Were Here 112

FROM LEFT: IZTOK ALF KURNIK/GETTYIMAGES; DREAMSTIME; COURTESY OF KALPANA SUNDER. ILLUSTRATIONS BY TINA BERNING

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96 Border Intelligence

You have a passport—what

else is there to know? From

what new security concerns

will mean for your next trip,

to visa on arrival, here are

some answers to questions

you didn’t know to ask.

Illustrations by Tina Berning