Tour the Tribes of North East India
Touring the tribes of Northeast India: Meeting independent country tribepeople in their small rural villages of India.
India is the ultimate traveler’s destination. It is frustrating, beautiful, ugly, fantastic and memorable on all counts. Nearly everyone who visits India says it is the one country you’ll never forget.
Touring the tribes of Northeast India: Meeting independent country tribepeople in their small rural villages of India.
Traveling Through Two Worlds in India The author joins a clothing designer who meets her fabric makers in rural India By Stacy Cunningham “India lives so many centuries side by side at any given time.’ -Indian photographer Raghu Rai It has been my good fortune to be able to travel…
On the Trail of the King Cobra: A tour that tracks India’s Most Revered Snake By Dan Peltier Most people tend to run away if they cross paths with a slithery serpent, but not the participants of the upcoming Steppes Discovery King Cobra Tour. That’s because they track them. Jarrod…
Meeting Tigers in Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India by Mridula Dwivedi I met a Jeep full of school children, their eyes shining with awe. They were waving their cell phones to me mouthing, “we saw the tiger, we saw the tiger”. Our naturalist Ramesh Rana from Taj Safaris managed…
Hampi, India: Traveling Back to a Golden Era By Karthik Rajamani Boulders and a seven centuries old dam, green fields and a river, mythical beings and folklore, temples and palaces; Hampi is 26 acres of archeological ruins frozen in time. For those who have been to Hampi, it is a…
Chicken Pox in Kerala, India: What do you do when your child gets sick abroad? By Fiona Baker The Bethsaida Hermitage, Kovlam, India When we landed in Kerala, India, November 2010, we couldn’t understand why our five-year-old daughter, Aida, was so irritable. She normally enjoys flying and travels well. We…
A Search for The Real India: Aaron Smith’s Journey in Shanti Bloody Shanti By Rachel Siden Aaron Smith was having an existential crisis. His failing marriage finally ended in divorce, the girl he started seeing after the break up was simultaneously dating a cocaine dealer, and to top it all…
By Elle Rahilly In Around India in 80 Trains author Monisha Rajesh describes her railway travels through India, a country she came to appreciate in retrospect 20 years after her return. Touring the country entailed large distances, with Rajesh hopping aboard 80 separate trains. Throughout the novel, Rajesh challenges herself…
South India: A woman travels solo from Chennai across South India and visits the silkworm cocoon market, Lalitha Mahal Palace in Mysore.
India Lifted the Ban on Tiger Tourism in 2012 By Shelley Seale Driving through the wildlife sanctuary, suddenly it’s spotted: a rippling as the grass moves, a flash of orange and black fur. Breath is held as the majestic Bengal Tiger saunters out to lap a drink from the water’s…
The Great Circular Indian Challenge: Seventeen Decide to Travel Together By Mark Lester It is 8 o’clock in the evening, 17th February 2011. I have somehow found myself, after two years of planning, with 16 other people, milling about Mumbai Central station waiting to embark on something that isn’t supposed…
Dr. Swati Dasgupta visits Bali Island in the Sundarbans, a coastal mangrove jungle in West Bengal and Bangladesh, a place where poor locals live on the water.