Category: Asia

Part 4 of 6. I open my eyes every morning and reach for my iPad, just to check if the world has survived the night without my motherly care. Sure enough, there is trouble brewing in Tibet – a friend…

Part 3 of 6: Lhasa Notes: 29 – 31 June 2011 Photo Album One of the first things that immediately strikes a visitor from the “mainland” China to Tibet is the bright blue sky with a few picturesque white clouds….

Having completed a 16-day trek through China and Tibet, I am overwhelmed with emotions, thoughts and impressions about this great country, its people, food, history and opportunities for the future. Unlike my other trips, I was not able to write…

Call me a hopeless romantic, but almost all of my conversations with the Indian contacts inevitably circle around one of their most important traditions – arranged marriages. The immense complexity of Indian society, including (but not limited to) the caste,…

The turboprop flight from Delhi to Udaipur takes about 1 hour, but it transports you from the sub-continent’s crazy capital into the land of princely warriors and artificial lakes surrounding their castles and palaces. Many of the princes are still…

Imagine taking a flight from an antiseptic shopping mall of Dubai and landing in the chaos of Indian jungle just 3 hours later! There are monkeys running across the road, elephants walking next to the rickshaw’s, thousands of people everywhere,…

It is time to start packing again. I’ve done this so many times, but the empty suitcases still leave me dumbfounded – what to pack, what to leave home? The air is thick with the excitement of the upcoming adventure,…