2200 kms, 8 days Finding our way out of Bangkok on a Christmas-eve weekend, without a GPS was an ordeal we had not bargained for. The rental car attendant shrugged his shoulders and said the GPS we had booked and paid for, was unavailable and …

3000 km, One Week: Sydney-Narooma-Gyppsland-Melbourne-Torquay – Lorne -Apollo Bay-Port Campbell- Warrnambool -Geelong-Melbourne-Sydney We hover over sheer cliffs that drop vertically down to the blue expanse fringed by frothy waves. On one side, the undulating coastline stretches as far as the eye can see while on …

1200 kms 10 days return trip Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest city, seems reluctant to emerge from the burrows it had buried itself into after the devastating earthquake of 2011. The 6.3-magnitude quake laid waste large parts of the city and left it in a …

3000 kms, 4 days, One-Way Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur-Ahmedabad-Baroda-Surat-Mumbai-Pune-Goa-Karwar-Darwar-Bengaluru What do you do when you are left with an embarrassment of cars? Our son left his car with us when he moved to Singapore and I did not want to be saddled with another vehicle in Delhi. So …

It was an invitation too tempting to resist, especially because it came with no obligations except to steer a Mahindra vehicle up and down the dunes and shrubs, kicking up dust in the desert is not something you do everyday. The invitation came from Pawan …

6000 kms 3 Weeks :Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan Landlocked Central Asia, rugged, remote and relatively inaccessible, has straddled the Silk Route between Asia and Europe for several centuries. The region is home to some of the loftiest mountain ranges on our planet—Hindukush, Karakoram, Altai, Tien …

10,000 kms, 6 Weeks Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Baharain The Russian Leg – St.Petersburg, Tver, Moscow, Nizhny, Kazan, Samara, Saratov, Volgograd, Kalmykia, Kropotkin, Astrakhan, Sochi   Turkey The Caucuses – Georgia, Azerbaijan Iran Tracing Nikitin’s Footsteps More than five centuries ago, in an era …

3000 kms, 2 Weeks: Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar (Kolkata, Benapole, Jessore, Sylhet, Dhaka, Karimganj, Silchar, Imphal, Moreh, Tamu, Kaleva, Mandalay, Ruily, Tengchong, Dali, Kunming) 3000 kms, Feb 22, 2013 – March 5, 2013 A tentative but spectacular initiative was launched last year when 20 cars, …