Tanvi Chheda
Tanvi Chheda is a freelance journalist and family travel expert based in Los Angeles. A former Travel + Leisure editor, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, AFAR, Virtuoso Life, Four Seasons magazine and OLTRE, among others. Given her South Asian heritage, she frequently writes about India; she was born in Mumbai and speaks three Indian languages. When she's not travelling (with or without her kids), she enjoys vegetarian cooking, 1960s Bollywood music and reading historical fiction.
A deliberately slow, solo adventure through magical Bhutan
Several goblet-like lamps flicker within the colourful, ornate prayer hall at Gangtey Gonpa, a 17th century monastery on a mist-shrouded ridge overlooking Bhutan’s Phobjikha Valley. Filled with clarified yak butter,
4 September 2025
The ultimate Austin city guide
A city that has pledged to keep itself “weird,” Austin is artsy, outdoorsy, progressive and Texan in equal parts. Here, pour-over coffee, Western wear, barbecue and even Mexican free-tailed bats
16 June 2025
The ultimate foodie guide to Charleston
Historic and impossibly charming, Charleston is having a moment. Much of the buzz, rightly so, is about the city’s dynamic food and drink scene. From croque monsieurs and corn ribs
9 December 2024
The ultimate Jaipur city guide
A kaleidoscope of colours against a desert landscape, Jaipur feels suspended in time (except for the traffic congestion that’s part of modern urban life these days). A land of lavish palaces and
26 January 2024
On track in Austria: Vienna to Salzburg by train
My piano-playing 11-year-old and I are enroute from Vienna to Salzburg, aboard one of the many daily trains between Austria’s elegant capital along the Danube River and the UNESCO-recognised storybook mountain town to the west.
31 October 2023
The ultimate Miami city guide
Sun-kissed and palm tree-lined Miami, in southern Florida, has always had a reputation as a party town. But along with those swanky, white-washed rooftop bars where the cocktails are aplenty, there’s
3 October 2023
From Cartagena with love
Join Tanvi Chheda on a literary-inspired journey of the senses through the vibrant streets of Cartagena, Colombia’s ‘Jewel of the Indies’ Apalenquera, one of the colourfully-dressed black women who carry
25 July 2023
