The Blog Post Your Boss Should Never See.

By Alap Parikh.

If you're a traveller, this post is for you. Regardless of whether you started out happy, indifferent or dreading the year 2014, it is about to change for the better. We've listed all major long weekends in 2014, so you can start planning out your leaves and make this a year of travel!

Long weekend travel ideas for the Easter break!

Live on a farm, learn a craft, take a do-nothing break - we explore the states of Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan & Punjab for quirky travel ideas on the coming long weekend in April. 

1. Learn pottery, ride a bullock cart & draw water from a stepped well  in the village of Pranpur in Madhya Pradesh.

2. Live in a hillside homestay & watch the clouds play hide & seek with the mighty Himalayas in the small valley of Shoghi near Shimla.

3. Eat food cooked on a chulha (or try cooking it yourself), use a bathroom with a view, play hop-scotch, stroll in the fields of jo (beer is made from this crop), watch sunrise from the fields, and watch birds lying on a charpy at Nirvana Organic Farm near Jaipur.

4. Read with a view and experience royalty in an 83-year-old British bungalow, in the small village cluster of Raison near Manali.

5. Take a dip in a tube-well, trek up to & inside a forest cave, and live in farm cottage at Prakriti Farms near Chandigarh in Punjab.

What are your plans for upcoming long weekend? What quirky travel ideas would you add here?