I’m still reeling from the super exciting journey around Uttarakhand’s Garhwal region with a bunch of travel bloggers from across the country. The first ever Bloggers Bus (or #BloggersBus on social media) went around five districts of the state with seven of us. This post is my account of being a part of this crazy…
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It was a typical European setting—open green slopes, large mountain cows grazing and well manicured trees flanked the expressway. It wasn’t until the distinct wooden houses at the entry turns of Zakopane did I realise I was in Poland. In my mind, Poland was Warsaw’s rebuilt structures and Krakow’s agonising history. And then I saw…
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I used to be indecisive when it came to insurance, especially travel insurance. On one hand, we are always told to be wary of unexpected circumstances and stay guarded against it. On the other hand, as Indians tend to miss out on essentials on the pretext of saving money. Since last year, however, I have…
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As a child, I fell often. The outdoors was my space and earth, my ally. Whether it was arbitrary running around with friends, or pretending to climb a mountain on a three-feet incline, or learning the life-changing skill of cycling, each scar on my body tells a different story. And each of these, I wear…
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It was a hot summer morning when I mailed Ishita Khanna, the co-founder of Ecosphere, a social enterprise in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh. At that point, I was a desperate traveller at my workstation in Mumbai. After an exchange of 42 emails across months of planning, my first solo trip to Spiti was finalised. It was…
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There is no dearth of places to stay on the Indonesian island, Bali. But there are some places that set the tone of our travel no sooner we enter them. The Anvaya Beach Resort in Kuta was one of them. On a humid afternoon, I landed on Bali’s Depensar Ngurah Rai International Airport, which was a…
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