Posted in Moving around, tagged Hampi, heritage, Karnataka, South India, Vijayanagara, Virupaksha temple, Vitthala temple on November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am off to Hampi for a photography workshop conducted by the getoffurass guys. I’ve been to Hampi before and knew I wanted to go back. And not just because of this ‘from the heart’ message!
For now: More photographs from Hampi – and ‘My heart is in Hampi‘ from long ago.
Posted in Cambodia notes, Moving around on March 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Cambodia seems to the flavor of the month – I may add, the hottest destination (considering it is the beginning of peak summer there and all that). In March alone, two of the most popular travel magazines, India Today Travel Plus and Outlook Traveler carried pieces on Cambodia. Specifically, the area around Siem Reap, home [...]
Posted in Moving around, This and that on January 3, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Each time I stepped out of the car for a break during our recent road trip, it took me a few minutes to feel “grounded” – the sensation of swaying ever so slightly even on solid ground was one that I got used to eventually, but never liked. But that was to be expected on [...]
Posted in Moving around on July 24, 2007 | 7 Comments »
You know what they say about power naps? those 15 minute refreshers in the middle of the day. believe me, they work. Go off to sleep for an hour or two during the day and you wake up feeling grumpy and disoriented (I do!) but snooze for fifteen minutes and you are up and ready [...]
Posted in Moving around, This and that on March 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
… or ‘the road that never was’.
… or ‘how not to go to Hogenakkal falls’
… or ‘it may be a better idea to stop thinking up titles and start writing the post instead’
Early September, very early Sunday morning, mid-monsoon. Three cars, twelve people, three cameras (note : these photographs here are the mixed output of [...]
Posted in Moving around on March 10, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Continued from here… [in other words, read that first, dearies]
And did I mention that all this driving along the Karnataka coast was during peak monsoon time? Luckily for us, the rain gods sportingly piped down for most of the three days that we were out, coming out in full force only during the last leg [...]
Posted in Moving around on March 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I am trying to remember that time when I used to travel but without a camera – sure, I had a basic point and shoot film camera but it was more for the “been there done that” record. My husband of course, maintains that those were good days because I saw things and places with [...]
Posted in Moving around on October 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
—Walt Whitman – Song of the Open Road
Sometimes… the road takes you far far away, sets you free, lets you explore, allows you to discover… yourself.
Roads.
They let you get away. From the smoke [...]
Posted in Moving around on October 23, 2006 | 4 Comments »
My overnight trip aboard Superstar Libra was everything I had imagined and hoped it would be… The idea was to go some place far away from Diwali crackers and the smoke that gets in your eyes and throat and refuses to leave it is time for you to go back to work after the holidays [...]
Posted in Moving around on December 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Some images from drives on the Mumbai Pune expressway- most of these photographs taken from our moving, almost-speeding-but-not-quite car. Driving through the tunnels is great fun, wet tracks inside the tunnels from all the speeding tyres, leaky roofs, losing signal on your mobile phone and all. The mark of the mosoons everywhere…
That was a particularly [...]
Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey - Pat Conroy
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing"
- Daniel J. Boorstin
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware
- Martin Buber
A good holiday is one that is spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours
- J. B. Priestley
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort
- Aldous Huxley
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