A Journal of Travel Tales Across 72 Countries
FOR those of us on the wrong side of fifty, the mention of Casablanca brings alive black and white images of that electrifying pair – Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, exquisite in their 1940s outfits. But don’t go to Casablanca with stars in your eyes …
Gold Coast glitters, true to its name. Sandwiched between Cairns, the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and Brisbane, the capital of Queensland it needs to find a purpose. The town, laid out on its gorgeous shores, is a skyscraper city full of casinos and …
My first visit to Berlin was in 1981 at the height of the Cold War. Back then, we were travelling by train all the way from Paris to Moscow, stopping in Bonn, West Berlin and Warsaw along the way. Truncated and traumatised, Berlin had already …
140 kms return, 3 days Smugness comes naturally to Indian travellers. We know we have everything in our vast and varied landscape — from drop-dead gorgeous gorges and lofty peaks crowned by glaciers to pearly white sand beaches studded with exquisite temples and churches. So, …
The photos in this post were exhibited in Delhi in 2002. They were shot on film then and have since been scanned and uploaded to this site. It was my first trip to Ladakh. I was fortunate to be the guest of the army in …
Let someone say And say to your shame That all was beautiful here Until you came So says a placard placed strategically at Sunset Point. It is difficult to imagine tranquil Pachmarhi was better than what it is now. There is an uninterrupted continuum of …
Queenslanders proudly claim that Daintree, 165 million years old, is the oldest surviving rainforest in the world. There is an abundance of mangroves, explained by the proximity of the rainforest to the reef. Whereas in the Amazon and in Borneo, you paddle through the creeks …
A frequent traveller learns to expect the unexpected in practically every journey. Even so, the Amarnath yatra is not without surprises. If you think the sheer location of the sacred cave, its remoteness and itsrelative inaccessibility would make for a quiet, contemplative trek through panoramic …
As you slide down the snowy slopes of the 16,750 foot high Lipulekh Pass on the Indo-Tibetan border, you are greeted by a breathtaking view of the Gurla Mandhata glowing in her powdery white crown of snow, a view that stays with you throughout …
