Our drive from Bikaner to Shekhawat was long and hot, and travelling with a driver who believed that both sides of the road belonged to him, meant that by the time we reached our hotel in the village of Churi Ajitghar we were tired and on edge. It was two in the afternoon and there…
Do we travel specifically for food ? Perhaps not … Is food a HUUGE part of our travel ? Yesss !! So for the final episode of Season 4 we decided to talk about food and travel and to chat with us about this we have Sumit Gambhir and Pankil Shah aka the Woodside boys…
Jodh-pur, Jai-pur, Udai-pur, Rajput rulers usually named the cities they founded after themselves suf-fixed by ‘pur’ which means settlement, our guide Shailendra tells us, yet Bikaner does not follow this formula. Bikaner was named for Rao Bika a young prince of the Rathore clan, rulers of Jodhpur, who set out to found his own kingdom…
Whenever we decide to travel someplace, the first thing we look for is a nice Homestay. Homestays enhance your travel experience in many ways, from making your feel welcome in a new place and offering you local recommendations to providing an opportunity to really understand a place from the point of view of the people…
‘Do you want to see a blackbuck?’ asked Thana Ram Bishnoi, with a slight smile. We were sitting on a charpoy in his courtyard, getting acquainted. We readily agreed. The sun had turned softer and the air cooler; soon it would be dusk. We strapped on our shoes as Thana Ram picked up his stick and we…
Did you know you get some of the best Asian food you will eat in Bihar ? Or that you can pick up art for your home, created by world renowned artists for a song in small villages a few hours north of Patna? Or that some of the most important Buddhist sites in the…
The thing about travelling to Rajasthan is that sometimes there’s a feeling that you’ve seen it all. Jodhpur’s Mehranghar fort, Udaipur’s City Palace, Jaipur’s Hawa Mahal and Jaisalmer’s living fort are awe inspiring and iconic and rightly get thousands of visitors every year, but there’s so much written about them and so many photographs and…
The salt desert of the Rann of Kutch is undoubtably spectacular and one of the reasons people have been visiting this place for years. However Kutch is so much more that the Rann, and if you return without visiting the villages around Kutch with thier myriad art and craft forms, preserved and practiced for centuries…
We are very excited to share that for the last few months we have been working with Cleartrip.com to curate a 2019 Holiday Planner and it is finally ready! 🙂 Now this is not your regular calendar, the 2019 Cleartrip Holiday Planner will help you with vacation ideas for long weekends, festivals and cool events…
The Udaipur that James Tod, the British Political agent to Mewar, set eyes upon in 1829, would have been significantly different from the Udaipur of today. Yet sitting up in one of the many rooftop cafes clustered around the old city, with the reflection of the lit up city palace dancing in the Pichola lake,…
As travel bloggers who blog specifically on travel in India, we always encourage our readers to explore your own backyard, but we realize sometime we don’t do enough of that ourselves! Well we are going to remedy that now! So if you live in Mumbai, and are always wondering what to do, we have a…
When we began travelling around the country state by state, we decided to start with some of the lesser known corners of our country. We visited southern states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, the interiors of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and far flung corners of Bihar, Arunachal and Nagaland. 3+ years and 18 states later…