I have a confession. I occasionally drag out a pretty sad story, as an ice-breaker, about how I just missed being born on an airplane. It is a true fact... my mother had flown on a rather bumpy Indian Airlines Avro (HS 748) flight from Bombay to Cochin just hours before I came into this world, a whole month premature. A portent of a life of travel, perhaps? In any case, I'm not apologising for it.
I have been lucky to have not spent my life rooted in one place. I have lived in five cities, in two countries, and speak three and a half languages (more on that some other time). I spend a fair bit of my time quenching my wanderlust, and have travelled through 20 of India's states, and 25 countries so far. That's not getting me into the record books, for sure. It is a good start though, if I do say so myself. I'd love to see more of the world, and my bucket list includes visiting places ranging from the Andes to Antarctica, Zambia to Zoji La.
On my travels, I collect things - cultural experiences, exciting food, amazing vistas and, most importantly, that sense of explorer's enthusiasm. I love the sense of continuing in that great human tradition of setting forth into the unknown. Alright, I might be getting a bit carried away, but you get the idea. I hope to share some of my experiences with the world, hopefully providing inspiration to others planning similar travel.
By virtue of birth, I possess an Indian passport, something that makes travel outside of India a little harder than for others. The need to often arrange visas in advance is an inconvenient roadblock on the way to travel nirvana. Don't get me wrong... there is a lot that one can do travelling in India, but I love the feeling of immersing myself in an unfamiliar culture as well.
I love planning my holidays independently, but information is not always available in a ready-to-use format for the Indian traveller, necessitating some extra digging around. Some of what I write will be based on my specific experiences as an Indian, and will hopefully be particularly useful to other Indians. That said, I am not going to write about ridiculous hunts for Indian food in foreign locales, or other exercises in pointlessness.
This site should help with ideas on independent travel, and will hopefully veer off the beaten path. I love sharing experiences with others and swapping travel stories. Please feel free to comment and share your thoughts and ideas.
I have been lucky to have not spent my life rooted in one place. I have lived in five cities, in two countries, and speak three and a half languages (more on that some other time). I spend a fair bit of my time quenching my wanderlust, and have travelled through 20 of India's states, and 25 countries so far. That's not getting me into the record books, for sure. It is a good start though, if I do say so myself. I'd love to see more of the world, and my bucket list includes visiting places ranging from the Andes to Antarctica, Zambia to Zoji La.
On my travels, I collect things - cultural experiences, exciting food, amazing vistas and, most importantly, that sense of explorer's enthusiasm. I love the sense of continuing in that great human tradition of setting forth into the unknown. Alright, I might be getting a bit carried away, but you get the idea. I hope to share some of my experiences with the world, hopefully providing inspiration to others planning similar travel.
By virtue of birth, I possess an Indian passport, something that makes travel outside of India a little harder than for others. The need to often arrange visas in advance is an inconvenient roadblock on the way to travel nirvana. Don't get me wrong... there is a lot that one can do travelling in India, but I love the feeling of immersing myself in an unfamiliar culture as well.
I love planning my holidays independently, but information is not always available in a ready-to-use format for the Indian traveller, necessitating some extra digging around. Some of what I write will be based on my specific experiences as an Indian, and will hopefully be particularly useful to other Indians. That said, I am not going to write about ridiculous hunts for Indian food in foreign locales, or other exercises in pointlessness.
This site should help with ideas on independent travel, and will hopefully veer off the beaten path. I love sharing experiences with others and swapping travel stories. Please feel free to comment and share your thoughts and ideas.
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