Rewind 2017: 4 famous Mumbaikars collect many noted destinations of a year

We entice 4 famous zealous travellers to collect a destinations that rocked for them this year and their wishlist for 2018

Elephant

‘Masai Mara has a tender and furious spirit’
Nishka Lulla, Fashion designer
Memorable trips: we visited South Africa and Kenya’s Masai Mara on a two-week outing in Sep with my father Dhruv [Mehra]. The landscapes we speckled pushing by a Garden Route in South Africa looked like pages out of a story book. we utterly enjoyed a city Franschhoek for a centuries-old vineyards, selected design and streets lined with art galleries featuring unequivocally moving works.

Nishka Lulla
Nishka Lulla

It’s also a epicurean collateral of a country. Masai Mara was also amazing. We went for 4 safaris each day, including a night one, that was utterly thrilling. Spotting animals like cheetahs, leopards, hyenas and elephants in outrageous numbers in their healthy medium was adventurous. It was also fascinating to expostulate past prides of lions, unruffled by a presence. The best thing about Masai Mara is a tender and furious spirit, and beautiful, transparent pinkish skies in a evening.
On my wishlist: Cancun (Mexico), Australia, New Zealand, and also throwing a northern lights in Iceland.

‘I attempted juicy smoked pig in Manipur’
Uday Benegal, Lead vocalist, Indus Creed
A noted trip: we adore India’s northeast. we was propitious to revisit Manipur for a initial time in August, when we was invited to perform during a strain festival there.

Manipur paddy fields

I spent 3 days in a many pleasing environment, and in a association of a hospitable musician Akhu Chingangbam, who fronts a rope Imphal Talkies. The expanses of greenery in a state are exquisite. we also attempted juicy smoked pig and some juicy rice beer.

Uday Benegal
Uday Benegal

On my wishlist: we wish to revisit Arunachal Pradesh; it’s truly one of a country’s many special wonders of nature. Japan has also been on my mind for a while. Their enlightenment of dexterity and food has prolonged drawn me in.

‘Japan was my initial solo outing and it was beautiful’
Aahana Kumra, Actor
Memorable trips: we was in America for a month and trafficked to Los Angeles, Austin and New York. we figured a lot about myself. What we like is that a nation is a land of opportunities.

Aahana Kumra
Aahana Kumra

I visited museums, watched a play Sleep No More, roamed around a Battery Park area and even strike a beaches in LA. The outing was special as we brought in my birthday there and had a possibility to accommodate Salman Rushdie during a festival screening of my film, Lipstick Under My Burkha. He sang a strain for me.

At a Met museum in NY
At a Met museum in NY

I also got a possibility to mark cherry blossoms during Central Park, given we visited a nation in spring. That was engaging given progressing this year, we had visited Japan during a time when they were not in bloom. That was, in fact, my initial solo outing and a many pleasing knowledge I’ve had, yet denunciation was a problem. we lonesome Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo.

Aahana Kumra with Salman Rushdie. Pic courtesy/Aahana Kumra's Instagram
Aahana Kumra with Salman Rushdie. Pic courtesy/Aahana Kumra’s Instagram

On my wishlist: we wish to go behind to Japan to see Mount Fuji; they had barred visitors when we had left given it was winter and it gets formidable to stand a mountain. And we wish to locate a northern lights in Iceland.

‘I baked for monks in Myanmar’
Saransh Goila, Chef
A noted trip: This January, I travelled to Myanmar with a photographer, thespian and an actor. It was a fun highway outing and we speckled thousands of pagodas.

Pagodas
The pagodas in Bagan

I got a possibility to prepare for monks and even pronounce to a conduct priest about life and my cooking style. They have a opposite approach of looking during things, so it was engaging to hear his indicate of view.

Saransh Goila, Chef
Saransh Goila, Chef

On my wishlist: Australia and Kochi. The former has been on my mind for integrate of years and now, we finally have an event to prepare in Melbourne subsequent year. I’m looking brazen to it. I’ve also listened a lot about Kochi. Since it’s a coastal region, we would adore to try some regional, coastal delicacies there.

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