The bamboo grove at Arashiyama looks exactly like the photographs. It also looks exactly like the photographs because roughly 20,000 people are taking them at the same moment you are. Kyoto’s most celebrated sites have, in many respects, become victims of their own documentation — photographed into algorithm-fed ubiquity and now permanently overcrowded before 9
Chandigarh has one of the most geographically convenient addresses in India for weekend travel. Within 250km, you can reach Himalayan hill stations, a UNESCO railway line, India’s paragliding capital, Sikh holy cities, and a 17th-century Mughal garden. The problem most people hit is calibration — they underestimate how long mountain roads take, or they ignore