There is a great series of books called ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, in which several characters have many intergalactic adventures, and they give some very good tips for traveling…
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I love languages; every place I visit, I buy a little pocket phrasebook in the particular dialect of the region, and do my best to engage people in conversation. Most people…
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There are so many things to do at the beach; I love the water, and I can spend hours snorkeling in the shallows, paddling around with the fishes, weaving over rocks.…
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At the end of my month’s adventures in India, I was in Kolkata (known as Calcutta in English) – the biggest city I have ever seen. If you’ve ever been to…
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Sunitha and I spent a few days visiting her uncle and other relatives in a small village a few hours from her house. Like the college in Kerala, I was the…
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At the end of my week’s stay in Kerala, I took a train from the very South of India to the very North, to a town at the base of the…
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Another day, I was invited to attend a yoga class taught by a small man named Lalu. He was a very good teacher, and his students listened to him very attentively.…
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I spent my first week in India studying Yoga at a college where they study Ayurvedic medicine. Ayurveda is a science dating back 6,000 years! And it has proven that every…
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I traveled for a whole month in incredible India. I traveled alone and with friends; I stayed in peoples’ homes and studied yoga for a week at a school for traditional…
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The air is tinted with every conceivable scent; woodsmoke, coconut, waste, construction, sweat, ripe fruit, curry, masalas or spices. It’s HOT. And so humid the sweat literally drips down your spine.…