The Borobudur sunrise took my breath away. There was something so intensely spiritual that I was touched to the core. An 8th-century Buddhist stupa and temple c...
I left Lombok for Java after a few weeks and returned in a couple of months. The second Lombok stay was not as peaceful as the first one and it was marred with ...
The lesser-known Gili islands on the southwest of Lombok, are what dreams are made of. Gili Nanggu and Gili Gede have some interesting accommodation choices lik...
The most awesome part about the astonishingly beautiful Gili islands is not their beauty, but the fact that there are too many of them. The famous Gili trio of ...
Lombok is magical. Squeezed between the island of Bali and the remote, uncharted Sumbawa Island of West Nusa Tenggara, this is a slice of unspoiled tropical par...
What do you do at a place which is paradisaical? Swim, explore, relax and enjoy the beauty to the fullest? I did all that and more at Lombok. To call this isla...
"Don't you ever get lonely traveling like this all by yourself?" "How do you handle being all by yourself?" "I need someone to travel with. I don't know how you...
"Do you want to look at some stones? Just look. You don't have to buy." One hears this at nearly every corner in Jaipur and the Pink City is crammed with gemsto...
During all my years of residence in Rajasthan, if there was one thing which I consciously hoarded, then that was yards and yards of Jaipur hand block print fabr...
As a child, one of my favourite fun things was to try taking off the silver or gold foil which decorated the Indian sweets. Irrespective of the place or occasio...
