India's best holidays for 2007

If you choose the much-awarded Oberoi Rajvilas hotel in Jaipur, here’s what you could notch up in eight days: Agra and the Taj Mahal (one hour’s flight ea way), Udaipur and lovely Lake Piola (one hour), the formidable fortress city of Jodphpur (45 minutes), the temples of Khajuraho (two hours 15 minutes) and Delhi (one hour). To which you could add a visit to the Shimla in the Himalayan foothills, or even a tiger reserve — whole chunks of India can be digested with ease.