WHY do we travel? 🙂 We had a slight glimpse of the world we’d come from, when we walked down from our room that morning, for breakfast. The TV in
WHY do we travel? 🙂 Not everyday do you wake up to such a view: https://www.instagram.com/p/BP64WuLAdF5/ Multiple times during the trip, I found myself being completely overwhelmed by Bhutan’s beauty:
This is a tale from last December. When three friends embarked on an epic trek to the lower Himalayas, despite a lot of pessimism from friends and family quoting that
Why do we travel? 🙂 The Bhutan trip was our attempt to get out and run away from a schedule, a routine, a time table. So when we heard BK’s
She has never read a fairytale, never seen a story book before. I kept wondering how will she imagine her life without these mundane tasks if not for a book?
Why do we travel? 🙂 I didn’t have to try and wake up that morning, because I hadn’t slept the previous night. Yeah. I’d put myself in a Passport fiasco
Why do we travel? My friend, Madhuri and I have always dreamt about running away: not from, but to the unexplored, the uncertain and the unconnected. (Cliché much?) We’ve talked
As we close out our the first month of 2017, what amazing things have you done? Do you feel like the year is slowly passing by, and you are not
After climbing Island Peak, I felt very confident about summiting Lobouche East Peak. The hike from Island Peak Base Camp to Lobouche High Camp gave me some time to recover
This year, on January the 1st and as part of the celebrations for the Losar, the Ladakh Buddhist Association organized a Tse-Tse (New Year’s Moon Watching Ceremony) at the Chowkhang
The beautiful town of Paro in Bhutan, casts a spell on you, the moment you set eyes on the terrain. We were there in November 2015, when it was dry
The breathtakingly beautiful Tachog Lhakhang Dzong on our way to Thimphu, from the valley of Paro. It was constructed by Thangtong Gyalpo, also known as Chakzampa, the “Iron Chain Maker”
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