Do you have a penchant for attracting certain situations or people when you travel? Travel can bring unusual patterns, synchronicity and personal discoveries. The fact we’re often far from home, just makes them more prominent. For instance, I’m a film set magnet. In the U.S., I have a knack for stumbling upon film sets… frequently [...]
Photo Essay: Cool things to See and Do in Madurai
With India, you don’t always know what to expect.
It’s like the way Los Angeles used to be in the 80′s and 90′s before L.A. Country took to white-washing it to erase signs of poverty. I’d drive down the street and each block would change from ghetto to posh and back to ghetto again, like Christmas twinkle lights!
Llhamos Kitchen: Taking a cooking class on Tibetan momos in Dharamsala
You might think that taking a cooking class is something at the top of every solo female traveler’s list of things to do. Pbbbbbt… I’ve never been a domestic sort of gal and if I’m cooking for one, my stomach is pretty simple. So I actually never considered taking a cooking class, while traveling. But [...]
World’s Worst Toilet: #9 Paid Public Toilets (Paying to Pee vs Pee for Free?)
No matter how I look at it, Indian public restrooms make me suspicious.
On a positive note: at least they have them!
But what about paid public restrooms?
A side of the Taj you’ve never seen: The Taj Mahal’s Lovely Backside
Travel cliches.
We love to hate them and yet, we continually do them.
After I wrote Can hype kill famous landmarks… like Angkor Wat?, more famous sites erupted to memory, like a serial killer’s growing body count.
Angkor Wat wasn’t the first site to bite the dust. Nope, there’d been others before it.
Adventures on an Indian bus: Is it easy being a solo female traveler in India?
It’s no secret I’m a big fan of public transportation, when I travel. Buses particularly. Until now, the notion of traveling in India by public bus used to intimidate me. Every time I’d see a bus parked at a stop, it looked like a rudimentary tin cans on wheels, packed tight and spilling over with people.
How to Choose a School in India for Yoga Teacher Certification. (Part II)
Yoga can impact people’s’ lives in a powerful way: awakening meaningful connections with our bodies, uplifting spirits, increasing flexibility, strength and health, releasing stress, offering insights and a new outlook on life… As a result, it’s only natural that some yogis feel inspired to teach this goodness. So where does one begin?
Will you Like Studying Yoga in India? You might wanna read this first… (Part 1)
Almost a year ago, I’d traveled to India. It was my second visit, but my first time exploring it through yoga.
At the time, I wrote some light posts from a travel perspective, giving readers a brief peek into what it was like staying at a yoga ashram and getting my yoga teacher’s certification at a school there.
Kanyakumari: What’s at the southernmost tip of India?!
Have you ever been to the southernmost tip of India? I have.
It’s where Gandhi’s ashes were released. It’s where the Indian Sea, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea swap tides. It’s got a huge statue of a famous poet.
Kanyakumari.
