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From Travel + Leisure , SEP 2003

When German fashion stylist Claudia Ajwani and her Bombay-bred husband, Hari, opened Goa's Nilaya Hermitage in the nineties, the New Age hotel glammed up the hippie beach resort with kaleidoscopic interiors and rock-star attitude. Now, at their cliff-top retreat, Fort Tiracol—a Maratha stronghold from the 17th century—the couple has imported the same Euro-chic that attracted Richard Gere, Giorgio Armani, and Sean Connery to Nilaya. The sunflower yellow-splashed building with tiled awnings brings to mind Portugal's Algarve. Behind their heavy wooden...MORE>>

– Phoebe Eaton T+L Reports: Good to Goa

Last updated September 2003