2018: A failsafe travel calendar for the new year

Fill your year with new discoveries, destinations and experiences - close to home and further afield, exotic and affordable

January

Ring in the New Year with hatching shells (and dancers’ bells). Warm up to 2018 on the beaches of Odisha — Talasari and Astaranga are great, but Gahirmatha is where this year’s Olive Ridley hatchlings will be making for the waves. The world’s largest rookery for the endangered turtle saw a record number of babies last year, and mating pairs have been sighted since early November.

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Hatchlings usually emerge 45-60 days after the females nest under cover of darkness. If you have