Broken Bangles: Travel, Stories, Thoughts

 Hi traveller, If you admire lived history and local culture, Chandni Chowk in New Delhi is your ultimate destination. The narrow lanes of this vast market stand seeped in the legacy of trade and commerce spanning centuries. Markets are the most vibrant and lively locations in any civilisation.  Local markets give you the most authentic experience of this vast country, India. The multi-fashioned and multi-flavoured markets, immense in size and produce, and filled to the brim with people and their sounds, present a chaotic yet intricate experience of India's scintillating diversity. In such a place, you view life in its beautiful bountifulness. It is a place where all your senses are invited to participate, there are multitudinous sights of life pictures to see, sounds to listen to, scents to inhale and delight in, and the voluptuous touch of food and coveted consumer items. Chandni Chowk If you visit India, your experience of this country will never be complete without visitin...

  (Image source: Flickr.com) Hi traveller, The Himalayan mountain ranges are a confluence of beauty, mystery, and spiritualism. They inspire awe and wonder and open a new world to the wanderer.  The world's two oldest philosophies, Hinduism and Buddhism, were born in the Himalayan foothills. Unlike the still wilderness of the Alps or the Appalachian, the Himalayas have spread over it, tiny hamlets full of people and stunning cultural colours. Yet, the mountain offers solace and silence if you climb to its remote and inner recesses.  The Himalayas could be your next destination. It suits those seeking life's meaning and life-changing experiences.  The Himalayan States India, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, and Myanmar form a group known as the Himalayan states. Southern Tibet also falls upon this mountain stretch.  To have the best experience of the Himalayas, it would suffice to visit Nepal, India, and Bhutan. These countries are easier to visit, to...

  (Clay licks of Amazon; image source: Wikimedia Commons) Hi traveller,  If you are enchanted by the splendid sights of nature and want to experience the ultimate charm of a rainforest, you must travel to the Amazon Rainforest. Furthermore, it will be the journey of a lifetime if you explore the mysteries of the forests. Here is a plan for this trip and the places you must visit.  Charles Darwin once described the Amazon Rainforest as “a view in the Arabian Nights.” The sunbeams filtering through tree branches (what the Japanese call komorebi), the light giving a godly glow to the hundred hues of the green forest, colourful birds and more magnificent Indigenous tribes, the adorable views from the forest canopy towers and lodges, the meandering mighty river, Amazon, its mist-covered surreal mornings, the giant lilies and tarantulas, the clay licks teeming with exotic animals, the list of wonders goes on and on.  The Amazon rainforest covers nine countries. You cannot...