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On Friday, I took the morning Delhi flight, with some 2K in my pocket, a backpack and my trusty Lonely Planet. No reservations, no hotel bookings, no clear plans, nothing. Oh well! That's what real adventure is all about anyway.

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The 14-hour flight from Singapore to Istanbul had done much damage to our backsides. Fortunately, the good weather (about 15 degrees Celsius) in Istanbul helped cool off the cooked effect in quick time

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Our journey to Dipalpur commenced at 6 a.m. on the Sunday morning. I was sleepy as I got into the car and when I offered my younger companion the drive, he was more than willing. It was a fine spring morning and the breeze was intoxicating. It did no..

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Caught between the eastern heritage and the western cosmopolitan capitalism is this small 100x200-mile island, Taiwan, The Land South (of mainland China). Major Cheng Kai Shek felt enough was enough with the atrocities of the Chinese Socialism and le..

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It was 6:45 a.m. when I reached Low''s Peak. It had started raining as I climbed over the last few craggy rocks. Vani had stopped 100 meters below, after having ditched the idea of climbing to the summit, out of exhaustion.

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My husband and I came here four years ago with our two teenage girls and our eleven-year-old son. Having to fill out forms with the names of my children with different columns for the father of each was the most unheard of, blatant, scandalous, bigge..

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When you go to bed it is already tomorrow. When you get up in the morning there is hardly enough water for you to bathe with or time to catch that ''7.10 fast'' train to Churchgate. And if that train so much as slows down and reaches your station eve..

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Before India's independence in 1947, what we knew about France was what we read in the literature provided to us by the English writers and the stories narrated by the members of Indian elite; primarily the Maharajahs and the Princes of the Independe..

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Half-way through the journey we reached Marayur -- a meeting place of dusty roads, vegetable shops and village people -- in the middle of the forest. It is the only place in Kerala that has a natural growth of sandal wood trees. The bus stopped there..

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