Tibetan prayer flags flutter on barbed wire, indicative of the mix of peace and reality in McLeod Ganj. For more poignant photos of India, click here. The beggars come at us from all angles. They’re waiting outside our hotels and stalking our destinations. They come up to us at tables while we drink and catch [...] Read more »
Gina, wrapped in a scarf to ward off the cold, sips tea at a cafe literally inside a cloud. For more chilly pictures of India, click here. It’s cold in the Himalayas. I guess that’s an obvious statement. I expected it to be cool, but not cold. Dharmasala and McLeod Ganj don’t even reach 2000 [...] Read more »
Welcome to India! It’s just what you expected, right? For more perturbed photos of India, click here. Have you ever read a book in which everything goes right? The hero or heroine wakes up, has a wonderful breakfast with his or her perfect family, has an excellent day, comes home for a lovely dinner, and [...] Read more »
Amritsar is the largest city in the Punjab region of India, a mere 30 KM from the Pakistan border. For more Punjabi pictures of India, click here. There’s a chorus of relief as we flop onto our bed in our spacious room in Amritsar. It’s expected that the overnight train from Delhi would wipe us [...] Read more »
The busy streets of old Delhi bustle all kinds of traffic at all times of day. For more hotheaded photos of India, click here. The streets of Delhi are paved, if you can call it that, with shoddy asphalt and broken cement. Stretches of dirt, deep potholes, and trenches filled with liquid I can only [...] Read more »
A skyscraper towers above us on the other side of a clear glass roof near Raffles Place. For more imposing images of Singapore, click here. “Why don’t we try looping around that way,” I suggest helpfully. Matt and I have been wandering around this maze of a mall for nearly 15 minutes, trying to find [...] Read more »
The city of Singapore looms above the bay, as seen from the Singapore Flyer. For more economically successful photos of Singapore, click here. Her hand dangled, for all intensive purposes, like a mossy stone, her lightly clenched fist enveloped in the soft caress of the young gentleman at her side. Their fingers didn’t intertwine, but [...] Read more »
The moat around the old city in Chiang Mai glows late at night. For more brilliant pictures of Thailand, click here. I guess it’s simply the luck of the draw that no matter how good a time we have in our destination, our travel between places just doesn’t quite work out. Standing in the train [...] Read more »
The mountains above Chiang Mai are lush and beautiful. For more aerie pictures of Thailand, click here. I awake to the sound of a rooster signaling sunrise. As I peel my eyes open, there is no difference, the darkness identical beneath my eyelids as outside. I consider getting up to watch the sunrise, but my [...] Read more »
Light slips in through cracks, illuminating the longhouse provided for us in Karen. For more serene photographs of Thailand, click here. In the mountains outside the city of Chiang Mai lies a series of villages which are merely referred to as Ban Mai in Thai. To the people of these villages, our guide Samruam (Sam [...] Read more »