India Special places to stay

It is hard to ?know? India. The country?s mystifying miscellany is legendary and will lure the curious traveller for as long as people travel. There is no limit to the ingenuity of the theatre that Indian life presents. At every turn you will see people behaving in ways that are unexpected and, often, unexpectable. The challenge of daily survival calls up resources that most of us here cannot imagine. Yet there is a richness to the texture of Indian culture that beggars belief. If your whole day has been a long series of risks and unknowns, you may appreciate being able to retreat to a place that we have chosen for you. (Note that getting it wrong in India can be traumatic: when an Indian hotel is bad it is very, very bad.) But this book gives you much more than safety and relief:you can dazzle yourself with a night in a Rajah?s palace in the grandest of styles, or you can camp out in a wildlife reserve. You can stay with a retired army colonel among the tea plantations in a little bungalow or flop about on the beach with luxury at your elbow in Kerala. The book can provide you with all the fascination you need -- just trust us and trust the people to whom we are introducing you. They will make your holiday and give you a measure of real independence that has often been hard for travellers to this vast and extraordinary country. Let us have your tales,for we will learn from them.