Gustasp & Jeroo Irani

Travel Writers / Photographers

Words!

To the strains of the Bee Gees song...
Words are all we have to share our adventures with you.

Here 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.

Blog
12 June
Winter Break, Leap of Faith
National Geographic Traveller, India

We stood atop a gentle beginners slope,watching some colourful ski gods sehussing down distant trails,curling...

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12 June
Breathless in Fiji
Travel & Leisure, India & South Asia

On an island-hopping toar,Gustasp & Jeroo Irani strike a balance between thrills and tranquility as they go scuba diving,partake in traditional feasts...

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12 June
Parent Trap, Martinhal Family Hotels and Resorts
Forbes India

In the course of our stay at three of the four Martinhal Family Hotels and Resorts in Portugal.We witnessed typical cameos...

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Apr 2020
The Road to Immunity
Lonely Planet

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...

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20 Jan
Segway-ing through Philly
Khaleej Times

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...

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16 May
I Punched the Old Man
Reader's Digest

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...

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1 Mar
Get Close to Nature
Architectural Digest

Nature is the protagonist at Coco Shambhala, a luxury boutique property near Sindhudurg in south Maharashtra. And she is a drama queen who...

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Aug 2020
A Home for Heritage
Travel & Leisure, India & South Asia

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...

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Apr 2018
Life through Rose-tinted Wine Glasses
National Geographic Traveller, India

We had Expected to get tipsy on the wines in northeastern france but not drunks on the picturesque village...

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Apr 2018
Love in Fiji
Forbes India

Want to stage an elopement,tie the knot in an old-world chapel,celebrate a beach wedding or have a champagne...

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Aug 2011
Shangri-La Regained
Steinway & Sons, UK

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...

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Blog
09 Feb
Old Body, Young Face
Taj Resorts Magazine, UK

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...

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May 2015
Ole!
Outlook Traveller

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...

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1 Apr
Eze You Like it on the Riviera
Atout France Online

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...

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Dec 2010
Bathing with the Immortals
Steinway & Sons, UK

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...

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Apr 2018
Tracking the Grey Ghost
National Geographic Traveller, India

The snow leopard paused,preened and then presented a proud profile,unaware of the adoring paprazzi gazing at him from a distance...

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Sep 2020
The Art of Ayurveda
Travel & Leisure, India & South Asia

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...

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Apr 2018
Dali-ance with Brilliance
ET Travel

It may amount to artistic blasphemy to state this but we had never cared too much for salvador dali the surrealist painter...

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Apr 2018
Sun, Fun and Tango in Buenos Aires
DNA

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...

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Apr 2018
Driving with Whisky Very Risky
Mumbai Mirror

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...

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Feb 2019
City of Begums
Khaleej Times

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....

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2019
Calvados, the Spirit of Normandy
Sommelier India

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?...

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Dec 2012
That's Amore!
Imperia

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...

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June 2018
Where the World Once Ended
JetWings International

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...

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Feb 2019
Begum Pasand
Exotica

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...

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Apr 2012
Say Kampai to Sake
Liquid

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.....

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Feb 2012
Cruising the Backwaters in Style
India Boating

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....

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Oct 2013
Adrift in Kochi
Going Places (Malaysia Airline’s inflight magazine)

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...

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Sep 2019
Rishikesh Unplugged
Go Getter

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...

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Feb 2014
Falling in love with Fiji
Mail Today

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....

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Sep 2016
Quirky, Queasy Quarters
DNA

In 1692, two young girls aged 9 and 11,the daughter and niece of Salem's parish priest, started behaving strangely:....

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Mar 2016
Slowing Down on the Glacier Express
Outlook Traveller

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.....

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Blog
Apr 2018
A Sensual Feast
Dialogue

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...

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Nov 2020
The Zen of Spa Gazing
Seema

The Covid-weary could opt for a spa break and revel in some coddling, kneading and healing in stunning landscapes....

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Oct 2014
Costa Rica, Where Falling in Love is Easy
Hi Blitz

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.....

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Blog
Jun 2012
The Maturing South
Liquid

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....

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Apr 2014
Ghosts of Kingdoms Past
Time Out Explorer

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....

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Apr 2018
Take a Coffin Break
Mumbai Mirror

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...

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Jan 2017
Capital Blossoms
Style, Khaleej Times

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.....

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Apr 2018
Ice Hockey in Ladakh, India
National Geographic Traveller, India

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...

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Feb 2015
Wild at Heart
Discover India

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.....

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Feb 2014
The Charming Heel of Italy
JetWings International

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....

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Apr 2012
Blowing Hot and Cold in the Japanese Alps
Imperia

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).....

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Apr 2012
The Spiritual Circle
Dialogue

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).....

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Apr 2013
Riding the Wind
Imperia

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....

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Apr 2013
Out of Africa
JetWings International

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....

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Nov 2020
Pampering the Feudal Lord’s Palate
Seema

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...

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