PHOTOGRAPH: TANYA SHARAPOVA
Colour clash
Spring celebrations don’t come any more colourful than Holi – the Hindu festival that heralds the end of the winter and sees young and old doused with technicolour water and gulal (powder). Though it’s celebrated across India (more intensively in the north), few places put up a more spirited display than Vrindavan – the historic hometown of Hindu deity Krishna. Here, Holi festivities continue long after the rest of India has scrubbed its clothes clean, running for over a week against a backdrop of towering temples. Look out for the Phoolon Wali celebrations at the Banke Bihari temple – here, flowers are thrown instead of powder.
• Holi begins 1 March; for more see lonelyplanet.com/india
The games are back
As the 2018 Winter Olympics get underway in South Korea, we run through medal-worthy logos from games past
Though South Korea may not spring immediately to mind as a winter sports destination, its well-developed resorts and abundance of snow make it one of Asia’s foremost skiing and snowboarding spots. Plus, it’s also one of the few places in the world where you can hit the slopes by day and descend to a big city (Seoul) for some slightly less wholesome entertainment by night. Before any competitors strap on their skis, we took some time to pick our favourite Winter Olympics emblems from the archives – symbols that have been as divisive and as unifying as the games themselves.