DA & KN

The Galle Face hotel in Colombo, an old colonial building overlooking the ocean. It has a saltwater swimming pool and serves delicious egg hoppers and Sri Lankan curries.

We once bought a beautiful lacquer hsun ok – a Burmese food offering container – in Bagan in Myanmar that was enormous, around 24 inches in height, which we literally had to carry in our hands back home.

Lamb kebabs cooked over a coal fire, served with handfuls of freshly plucked cherries eaten on a low wooden platform on a street in Samarkand.

Definitely something in a dark colour in case we spill our bloody marys! Something with an expandable waist, and lots of pockets for earbuds and the other little things we probably won’t need.

Any one that comes with a friendly but silent driver… and good air conditioning!

Getting to our camp in the Sunderbans on a crowded little boat full of excited Bengalis took us through the most incredible landscape of mangroves and water with the occasional saltwater crocodile watching us go by.

A good book, a Bluetooth speaker to listen to familiar music in the morning and swimming trunks.

Try and follow the local time of the destination as much as possible, especially for meals. And definitely some sort of sleeping pill on the first night to help catch up with the local time.

Spotify and The New York Times.