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Travel Plan: Visit the Himalayas and Experience Its Essence

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  (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...
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Travel Plan: The Pellworm- Suderoog Islands, Germany

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 (Pellworm Island; image source: de.wikipedia.org) Hello Traveller, You are someone eager to walk unbeaten tracks. You wonder how people live in remote corners of the world where time seems to stand still, and life flows forever without much change. This is why you must visit Pellworm and Suderoog in Germany. These places might teach you an entirely new philosophy of life if you are the listening type.    Suderoog Island can be described in two phrases- one, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the North Frisian Wadden Sea, and two, called by many a floating dream. This island is on the mudflats of Germany. To benefit those uninitiated in geography and its weird diversity, I must explain that a mudflat is a tidal flat, a slob, as the Irish call it. It amounts to a coastal wetland formed by silt deposits in an intertidal area.  They are similar to bays, estuaries, lagoons, and bayous. The mudflats are alternatively submerged and exposed. Even when submerged, the water...
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Travel Plan: Vanavara, Siberia: The Heart of the Tangushka Mystery Event

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(Vanavara town. Image source:  Traveling Dunia) Hi Traveller! You are fascinated by remote and isolated destinations and not the type to shy away from the hardships of exploring distant terrains and cultures. This is the first travel note for you, in a series of travel plans you will surely want to read before you go off that beaten track.  A Trip to Vanavara Vanavara is the nearest human habitation to what was known as the Tunguska event. Now, what was the Tunguska event? Know your history or google it up.  The incident happened in 1908. A meteor fell into the Taiga and burned and flattened a little above 2000 square kilometres of the spruces and birches growing there. This was the largest recorded meteor impact in history. And there are a hundred and some conspiracy theories about the event, a few even claiming that the explosion was supernatural.  In the Subarctic climate of Vanavara, everything is white when it is winter. This place is home to the Evenk people, t...
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How Far Away Is a Cancer Vaccine?

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(image source: Pixabay) A cancer vaccine has always remained elusive for medicine and science. Is this situation changing? Is hope rising over the horizon? The Ovarian Cancer Vaccine According to the latest news , Oxford University scientists have developed a vaccine for ovarian cancer . This vaccine, OvarianVax, when available for use, will be able to teach the immune cells in our body to detect and attack ovarian cancer cells in the early stages of this disease. Prof. Ahmed Ahmed is the leading scientist behind this research.  The trial for this vaccine has started. The importance of this development is that when it is ready, this vaccine might wipe out ovarian cancer. Yet, this vaccine is still years away.  Why Is a Cancer Vaccine Still a Mirage? What is Happening on the Research Front? Catherine J Wu, a cancer scientist, was awarded the prestigious Sjöberg Prize for her contribution to cancer research  in February 2024 . She is a professor of medicine at Harvard...
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Paraman, The Street Violinist: Memory of a Man

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  (The folk violin of Pulluvas; image source:  Kannanshanmugam,shanmugamstudio, Kollam , Wikipedia) The Village Visitors  Those were times when things were less complex than they now are. We lived in a bucolic countryside where everyone knew everyone else. The only outsiders who frequented the place were visiting relatives, a bunch of regularly appearing street vendors, the postman, the Gurkha (a man from Nepal who would be paid Rs 10 per month by each family for keeping vigil in the village during nights*), and our very own exclusive beggars. We knew them as they made rounds on almost expected dates and times. Paraman’s Song Paraman, the street violinist, had positioned himself between an artist and a beggar. In our culture, the members of the Pulluva community, who made exquisite music using two delightful musical instruments- a single-string local fiddle and a round mud pot with a tight wire wound across it- were the official local musicians. They would come to sing in...
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Travel Plan: A Trip to Understand The Bermuda Triangle

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  (Image source: grammidistoria.wordpress.com Hi Traveler,  You are a fan of mystery, the inexplicable, and you would love to go probing the geographies, home to such mysteries. For someone like you, the Bermuda Triangle is now not an intangible puzzle. You can visit this region of the sea by entering it from three land masses, which form the three endpoints to the triangle.  The Bermuda Triangle: Basic History and Facts An imaginary triangle drawn connecting Florida, the Bermuda Islands, and Puerto Rico in the North Atlantic Ocean will give you the Bermuda Triangle. The area of this sea stretch is around 1.3 to 3.9 million square kilometres. The exact boundaries of the triangle are not demarcated. Different people at different times set vague definitions of the area under the triangle.    In December 1945, five Navy training aeroplanes navigating the sky above the Bermuda Triangle in the Atlantic Ocean, with 14 men on board, disappeared. A rescue mission was la...
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