“Savour every sandwich, live each day as if it’s your last,” says Edward Readicker-Henderson, contributing editor at National Geographic Traveler and author of several favourites including ‘The Traveler’s Guide to…
Thommen Jose
Hic! It’s time to make amends.
Theka-tender Since the first tourist set out – maps, bags, spirit of adventure, a premature but prickly pining for home, et al – tourism…
My Land Rover phone had held me in good stead the last year when I really roughed it out – including the Parikrama of Mount Kailas in Tibet. I must…
India tourism office in Beijing did not even have a director till March this year. In fact, there was no need for one – outbound figures hovered around 50,000 accounting…
'Telling Tales' is an ongoing series on my more memorable fellow travellers.
Pierre found his daughter Rebecca in more places than he looked. Strangers came up to him and…
Where would we all head to if there were no more snow-capped peaks? Where would we trek if there were no more forests to trail? At the rate the polar…
“Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin,” said Bruce Chatwin. Any traveller worth his visa can rant offhand many promenades of perambulation – from the whole of Siena…
‘Mela’ must have its origins here. Around me were colourful plastic goggles like props-in-calling for the retro-theme Vespa ads, mandating humungous physical strength from the parents to pry away boys…
Champakali When the roads are too long
And the sun really strong
I feel awesome
There, out of nowhere
20,000 Lakes everywhere
I feel awesome
Champakali and I squished through…