As traveler’s we have lived through the good and bad and often remember them both with equal frequency…though very often the ‘good’ incidents remain our memory longer. Continue reading
No place is scary when kind people are in it
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Flights
Are you the type that puts off traveling because the flights are horrendously expensive? With a little resoursefullness, you wont have to Continue reading
Do your bit for the world
Let’s admit, we do love to have little African kids smiling in our photograph, it just makes us look like we have had an exciting holiday. The pictures with the smiling kids in rags say “look, what I got! Isn’t … Continue reading
A lesson in Egypt’s ‘tourist traps’
Like any other touristy place, Egypt too, lives up to its reputation. It has all the trappings of a “typically” tourist place, complete with touts, ‘hasslers,’ self-appointed guides, middlemen, ‘working’ tourists and well, thousands of tourists Continue reading
Eating fried tarantula
While in Cambodia a year ago, I went looking for fried spiders to eat, after hearing so much about them. Traveling through Kampot, Kep, Sihanoukville brought me many surprises in the form of food, but no tarantula. I must say … Continue reading
Century eggs, balut and sea urchins
Not without reason I have this strange feeling that you are going to think me a complete weirdo as far as food is concerned. But you see, the world is full of people eating them, I just happened to be … Continue reading