Gustasp & Jeroo Irani
Travel Writers / PhotographersHere is a random selection of our articles which have, over the years, appeared in over 100 publications.
Our by-line has featured on the pages of National Geographic Traveller, India, Travel and Leisure, India & South Asia, Forbes India, Architectural Digest, Outlook Traveller, Reader’s Digest, Khaleej Times, Going Places (inflight magazine of Malaysia Airlines), and a number of inflight magazines of Indian airlines and weekend sections of dailies.
We stood atop a gentle beginners slope,watching some colourful ski gods sehussing down distant trails,curling...
On an island-hopping toar,Gustasp & Jeroo Irani strike a balance between thrills and tranquility as they go scuba diving,partake in traditional feasts...
In the course of our stay at three of the four Martinhal Family Hotels and Resorts in Portugal.We witnessed typical cameos...
What we eat to build our immunity has taken centre-stage especially at a time when a raging pandemic has spread across the world. Does Ayurvedic cuisine have all the answers...
He honked at us. We were in the middle of the road, but we refused to give way. We could understand his exasperation: four helmeted tourists on battery-operated two-wheel Segways...
A country and western singer once asked Clint Eastwood what kept him going; directing a movie at 80 plus? The rugged star’s reply was as crisp as...
Nature is the protagonist at Coco Shambhala, a luxury boutique property near Sindhudurg in south Maharashtra. And she is a drama queen who...
It's relatively new building, just a few centuries old, that took seven and a half years to build. The elegant threestorey edifi ce of the Kerala Folklore Museumin Kochi has the bones and sinews of 25...
We had Expected to get tipsy on the wines in northeastern france but not drunks on the picturesque village...
Want to stage an elopement,tie the knot in an old-world chapel,celebrate a beach wedding or have a champagne...
Nepal has had its ups and downs in the last 50 years, but has enjoyed a return to stability of late. And, as Gustasp and Jeroo Irani discovered, a land dominated by the Himalayas can...
Bhutan, home of the new Taj Tashi resort, is one of the world’s most closely guarded secrets but for those who manage to get there, a land of youthful innocence mixed with...
Watching a bullfight in Madrid stirs up a rollercoaster of emotions, from wonderment at the spectacle to immense sadness for el toro. Text and photographs by GUSTASP & JEROO IRANI...
Our first glimpse of Eze, a medieval little village on the French Riviera, reminded us of an eagle’s nest poised on the summit of a hillWe had arrived by bus from Nice, a half hour away...
Following a cycle dictated by the Sun, Moon and Jupiter, millions of pilgrims flock to the River Ganges to celebrate the Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious gathering. Gustasp and Jeroo Irani...
The snow leopard paused,preened and then presented a proud profile,unaware of the adoring paprazzi gazing at him from a distance...
The Tranquillity of the wood seeped into our souls, just as easily as the Ayurvedic oil into our skin. We were performing yoga asanas in the middle of a...
It may amount to artistic blasphemy to state this but we had never cared too much for salvador dali the surrealist painter...
Would you like to do the tango with me and have your wife take a photograph of us asked a dusky latina women eyes flashing raven hair swinging...
Peep peep Don't sleep no that wasn't a wake-up call But then again it could well have been one.Love is like the mountains hard to conquer but once you get there the feeling is...
They were gutsy, no-nonsense women rulers, comfortable in their own skins. The begums of Bhopal, who governed the former princely state in the heart of India from 1819 to 1926, were as swashbuckling as the founder of their dynasty....
Had Eve offered Adam an apple brandy instead of an apple,would it have changed the course of human history? Would they still be cavorting in the Garden of Eden?...
Our arrival in Venice, probably the most gorgeous of Italian cities, was exquisitely romantic. We steamed on the brand new Costa Fascinosa, the largest Italian-flagged cruise ship afloat...
We were staying at Martinhal Sagres Beach Family Resort, a 37-room hotel which also has swish selfcatering villas of various sizes, sculpted into a cliff. The resort lassoes jaw-dropping vistas of a...
The feisty woman rulers of Bhopal preferred their cuisine hearty and robust, bursting with flavour but not necessarily finely nuanced. They liked to hunt in the lush game-rich jungles of Madhya Pradesh...
Nature had painted the landscape in lavish brushstrokes. Branches of trees clawing at the grey sky were etched in white and icicles hung like threatening daggers from the edge of the sloping roofs of chalet-like homes that groaned under the weight of accumulated snow.....
We awoke to a dreamreality:the gentle roll of water under us; the tolling of church bells and a clutch of coconut trees gliding past the window....
As the clamour for protecting our home planet grows louder, hotels are doing their bit by turning eco-friendly. Gustasp & Jeroo Irani list out a few eco-resorts that are worth checking out...
Gently flowed the Ganga. A soft breeze caressed us like a soothing balm as we floated down the emerald waters in a dinghy. But for the murmur of the...
THE RUNWAY was a rippling grassy field which, at the far end, seemed to plunge into the inky-blue ocean beyond. Our sevenseater plane soft-landed on....
In 1692, two young girls aged 9 and 11,the daughter and niece of Salem's parish priest, started behaving strangely:....
The evocatively named glacier Express is proably the slowest express train in the world.But we were not Complaining. True,it got us from the idyllic car free village.....
My favourite Portuguese meal is a simple grilled fish drizzled with olive oil,” said a local whom we met one morning as we strolled down the talcumpowder beaches around the picturesque little town...
The Covid-weary could opt for a spa break and revel in some coddling, kneading and healing in stunning landscapes....
This tiny central american country fought like a mighty puglist,defeated greece and made it to the quarter finals of the 2014 FIFA world Cup in Brazil And the.....
Orfila Vineyards and Winery is an ultra-premium boutique winery, which has cocked a snook at many of its famous Californian competitors by winning around 1,300 national and international awards....
Past Pass up the grand palaces and imposing forts synonymous with Rajasthan in favour of a rendezvous with a forsaken village with a magical pass Text & photographs Gustasp and Jeroo Irani....
Confined in a space that you just about fit in,with an alarm that does not ring,and a nickname that reminds you of graveyards,the capsule hotels in kyoto,japan,are a must-visit even if they...
Washington DC has a classical profile; it is a city with an undeniable swag. The US capital exudes a sense of power from every pore. Known familiarly as just DC, this is a capital unlike any other in the world.....
Confined in a space that you just about fit in,with an alarm that does not ring,and a nickname that reminds you of graveyards,the capsule hotels in kyoto,japan,are a must-visit even if they...
We stopped on a hilltop overlooking the dam and trestle chairs had been arranged in a semi-circle for a surprise sundowner in the wilderness. As other guests from the camp joined us, we spoke to Adam.....
Nothing quite evokes the mysterious magic of Puglia as the ‘Dance of the Tarantella’. Performed by women who slither on the ground like tarantula spiders and contort their bodies to convey stealth,the dance was, at one time, believed to be an antidote to the potentially fatal....
The Shin-Hotaka is a two-stage ropeway to heaven — said to be one of the longest in Asia—that whisked us up close to the peak of NishiHotaka-dake (2,909 m).....
The Shin-Hotaka is a two-stage ropeway to heaven — said to be one of the longest in Asia—that whisked us up close to the peak of NishiHotaka-dake (2,909 m).....
It was a classic ride-off: two polo ponies galloping shoulder to shoulder as they thundered down the field, one nudging the other off its line. It was a....
Everything in Africa bites, someone once said. But the best of them all is the safari bug, for once the teeth have sunk in,you sink with them into a land....
When food, fantasy and an awesome setting come together, time travel happens. We savored a regal repast at a 250-year-old palace, now a boutique luxury hotel, near Kolkata...