SHANKAR MAHADEVAN, singer

nAs an artiste, I get to travel a lot so we regularly go on holidays. I?ve had lots of memorable holidays and my favourite destinations are Goa and Kerala. My wife, Sangeeta, and my sons, Siddhartha and Shivam, and I had a great holiday at the Kumarakom resort, one of the finest lake resorts in the country. The suite we stayed in was completely in wood and done in the style of the old Kerala homes. It had a private swimming pool which shared a common wall with the adjoining lake.

Abroad, we?ve always enjoyed New York for the sheer buzz and shopping. But a few months ago, we had the most fantastic holiday in New Zealand ? I had a small concert there after which we took a break for 15 days. We hit Queenstown and some other places, where 80-85 per cent of the land is virgin. Then, we took a ride on these shot-over jets, high-speed boats. We even took a chopper ride from Queenstown ? after 20 minutes you just land on this glacier. It?s just you, your family and the pilot, and there?s this white landscape all around. You feel like you?ve reached heaven. It?s like being on top of the world.