Great travel itineraries, many cultural curiosities, tips and things to do, lots of photos, and some extra thoughts about the countries and places I have visited all over the world.
From the Meghalaya’s rain forest, in hidden North-East India, a solution to one of the biggest environmental issues in the world: the use of plastic straws. This is the hand-made, organic and zero impact bamboo straw created by product designer Kriya Rynjah. Nope, I haven’t been in North-East India (yet!), so […]
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Two months in Delhi is enough time to visit many touristic and less touristic sites, and learn something about the city’s vibe. So, here is a list of places worth visiting, or maybe not. All I can guarantee is an honest review, from my point of view that is, presented […]
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Teach people how to design and grow their own organic vegetable gardens. Provide them with the space, the tools and the know-how they need to make it self-sustainable. Provide long term support and create a sense of community around it. Do all of this and you will have Edible Routes, […]
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You know what I like to do when I visit a city? Get out at a random metro station, and check out the surroundings, especially around lunchtime. So I did, and I believe I have accidentally created a quite interesting random tour in South Delhi. Here’s the Google map of the […]
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The Raj Ghat, in the North-East part Delhi, is a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, and is situated in a big green park, with long avenues and wide meadows. The black marble is settled where Gandhi cremation took place, while on the other side an eternal flame burns. Gandhi is a […]
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Eyes with no smile and no rancour, with no desire nor fear, neither hard nor gentle. Just the resolute humbleness of those who know hardness, and have accepted an unchanging fate. I was just going through the streets of Delhi on a taxi, or a rickshaw, I can’t remember, when […]
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A walk around Old Delhi means a visit to sacred places of all main religions, lots of markets, great street food, decadent mansions from the Mughal era, and a great poet‘s last residence. Kites are flying over the roofs of Old Delhi, they look like flocks of swallows against the […]
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One of my Indian hosts kindly gifted me with The White Tiger, a best selling novel by Indian writer Aravind Adiga. The book is about the journey of a boy born to be a sweet-maker – in a lower caste of Indian society – from a position of servitude to being […]
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Situated in South-West Nepal, Bardia National Park is part of that wide and wild Terai, the lowland belt between India and Nepal, rich of grasslands, savannas, forests and swamps. Bardia offers an authentic experience of local life and culture, Tharu people are the main ethnic group in the region, and […]
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Tharu is the name of the ethnic group of the Terai region, Nepal. This is to a larger extent still a rural society, and among their know-how and practices, still live on the role of the Guruwa, or healers. The Guruwa (pronounced Goo-roo-wah) are doctors, with lots of knowledge about […]
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The people of Nepal’s Terai, Tharu, have still a quite intact rural life style, but how long will it take to the force of modernization to kick in and change this society forever? When you stay for over a month in Nepal’s Terai, Thakurdwara, right outside Bardia National Park, you […]
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Bardia National Park offers an authentic experience of jungle safari by foot. Here animals are really wild, unaccustomed to the presence of human beings, from whom they normally flee. Getting to see them requires good guides, with the skills to read the signals the jungle provides. I went for two […]
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