Travel
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Marigolds in the summer of 90
When blue skies would roll into woven grey You’d look up and say ” There’s going to be rain tonight!!” Me and seven seas from across, hope That the weather in central is also the same Optimistic and ever eager What I wouldn’t do To go back into monsoon of 90’s Several lifetimes, disappear in a blink I am not ready for goodbyes of ‘until later’ I see you nurturing marigolds Wearing old t-shirt and shorts Tending, so I wake…
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Gap year travel – Angkor Wat
You were a privilege to see and in which to be Green fields Stone stacks Arched entries Chipped faces And breathing trees I stood, a dwarf among giants And imagination took me places
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Gap year travel – first impressions, day 1
This post is part of the series on ‘Gap year travel‘ As karma would have it, I arrived at ‘Happy house 19‘, Phnom Penh on an eventful day. But I was not aware of this until late that evening. I say karma, because I had planned to check-in at Camory backpackers but that was not meant to be :). Day 1 of my travel and already my first brush with the unwritten rules of hostel booking! I would know…
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Gap year travel – arrival
The air outside of Phnom Penh airport felt like Indian summer. In fact, not much looked different. There were touts everywhere, locals almost swiping up my backpack and essentially ensuring I followed them to their tuk tuks or cabs. But this was a moment I had prepared for not just from my upbringing in India, but by pouring over tonnes of articles on how to travel on a shoe string in South East Asia. I was prepared to haggle, but…
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Gap year travel – commencement
In the year 2014, I took a decision to take a year off. The reasons were many but at the forefront was the need to feel absolute control of my life and the paths I took. And so at around 7pm during a balmy June evening in the summer of 2014, I found myself at the security check counter of Rajiv Gandhi International airport, Hyderabad, India. Back then, female solo travelers were still rare and the officer at the counter…
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Incredible Indonesia
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Mysore, Fort Kochi 2019
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Flight above the apus
The Incas, left behind the magic of gold Maze of old routes that glitters to life when the sun settles down
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Hawa Mahal, Jaipur
The architecture in Jaipur is breathtakingly gorgeous. Every direction I looked, the views were framed.