https://grrrltraveler.com A Female Solo Travel Blog | It's not a vacation until you survive it! Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:02:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://grrrltraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/favicon.gif https://grrrltraveler.com 32 32 https://grrrltraveler.com/ultimate-guide-to-yoga-in-india/ https://grrrltraveler.com/ultimate-guide-to-yoga-in-india/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2020 14:38:57 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=32125 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. ]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/ultimate-guide-to-yoga-in-india/feed/ 21 https://grrrltraveler.com/darjeeling-travel-guide/ https://grrrltraveler.com/darjeeling-travel-guide/#comments Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:00:54 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=54256   Darjeeling is a busy little hillside town in northeastern West Bengal and it’s best known for its production of black tea. The majority of the population is part Sikkimese, Tibetan and Nepalese due to their bordering countries. This post contains affiliate links. I highly recommend trip insurance on your adventures. Use this trip insurance finder...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/darjeeling-travel-guide/feed/ 12 https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-reach-darjeeling/ https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-reach-darjeeling/#comments Mon, 11 Sep 2017 13:31:25 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=52164 This post contains affiliate links. I highly recommend trip insurance on your adventures. Use this trip insurance finder tool to find an plan based on your budget! Check out affordable U.S. trip insurance. I was really nervous about getting to Darjeeling, because getting there was not a straight shot, like taking an Indian train and then saying,...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-reach-darjeeling/feed/ 4 https://grrrltraveler.com/ladakh-guide-8-incredible-places-to-experience-heaven/ https://grrrltraveler.com/ladakh-guide-8-incredible-places-to-experience-heaven/#comments Sun, 13 Oct 2013 11:09:10 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=31705 Ladakh Guide: 8 Incredible Places to Experience Heaven As I said earlier, Ladakh is the most beautiful place I’ve seen.  Surreal, mystical, magnetic. The beauty of this land is almost alien to me. It certainly can’t exist on earth. I could stare at it all day. But what places should you visit to keep that experiencing...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/ladakh-guide-8-incredible-places-to-experience-heaven/feed/ 4 https://grrrltraveler.com/photo-essay-mapping-out-old-leh/ https://grrrltraveler.com/photo-essay-mapping-out-old-leh/#comments Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:52:10 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=30434 Straggly is the flavor of Leh. Leh isn’t dirty, but somehow, it looks it. It’s got a bit of a Wild Wild West presence about it. A scruffy town with a dusty main street, some souvenir shops, tourist agencies and straggled alleyway mazes leading to stone and mud houses. To see the town after having experienced...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/photo-essay-mapping-out-old-leh/feed/ 2 https://grrrltraveler.com/thiksey-monastery-a-local-bus-and-a-girlie-afternoon-adventure/ https://grrrltraveler.com/thiksey-monastery-a-local-bus-and-a-girlie-afternoon-adventure/#comments Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:39:06 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=30439 https://grrrltraveler.com/thiksey-monastery-a-local-bus-and-a-girlie-afternoon-adventure/feed/ 14 https://grrrltraveler.com/photo-essay-ladakh-most-beautiful-place-world/ https://grrrltraveler.com/photo-essay-ladakh-most-beautiful-place-world/#comments Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:33:45 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=11108 This post contains affiliate links. I highly recommend trip insurance on your adventures. Use this trip insurance finder tool to find an plan based on your budget! Check out affordable U.S. trip insurance. It was hard to imagine I was still in India… As the rest of India spat and sweltered entering June’s summer sweat, Ladakh pulled...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/photo-essay-ladakh-most-beautiful-place-world/feed/ 21 https://grrrltraveler.com/taking-cooking-class-dharamsala-lhamos-kitchen/ https://grrrltraveler.com/taking-cooking-class-dharamsala-lhamos-kitchen/#comments Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:15:15 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=33062   You might think that taking a cooking class is something at the top of every solo female traveler’s checklist of things to do. Lacking domestic skills that is something I never thought of.   But arriving at the Dalai Lama’s neighborhood of McLeod Ganj and seeing sign after sign advertising Tibetan food, it brought...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/taking-cooking-class-dharamsala-lhamos-kitchen/feed/ 14 https://grrrltraveler.com/worlds-worst-toilets-paid-public-toilet-in-dharamsala/ https://grrrltraveler.com/worlds-worst-toilets-paid-public-toilet-in-dharamsala/#comments Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:20:33 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=32615 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?]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/worlds-worst-toilets-paid-public-toilet-in-dharamsala/feed/ 9 https://grrrltraveler.com/love-letter-13-silence/ https://grrrltraveler.com/love-letter-13-silence/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:08:49 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=10660 Dear Love, Words and thoughts often get in the way of us achieving our greatest potential for awakening. My destiny is out there. Occasionally when I travel, I catch wind of a resonant "feeling" that takes me to where I should be next. But then, outside thoughts enter the picture pushing me to define the why's and exacting outlines of goals; and within an instant, I've thieved its potential for greatness. My dream should be simpler. What do I want to do next? If there are no words, no thoughts but only feelings and impressions, I know the answer. Silence is hardly silent...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/love-letter-13-silence/feed/ 4