Travel stories, tips, listicles, and inspiration for your next trip by two walking explorers. You’ll also find travel reflection blogs and musings here.
Trail-stained Fingers is less than a year old and the blog has already been nominated for a Liebster award by none other than Erin J Bernard, an essayist I immensely admire for her impeccable writing and sensitive exploration of subjects that affect the human consciousness. 1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page …
Until not so recently, I was a die-hard advocate of budget travel but lately, I’ve begun to succumb to the lure of luxury travel. I’ve begun to give in to the pleasures of welcome drinks, billowy beds and room service that makes you feel like royalty. And when all this is accompanied by spa treatments in …
I’m 26 but that’s not going to last forever. And I want to be able to travel even when those digits get reversed. Is that an impossible goal? Not really, as I discovered on my last travel blogging trip to the forests of Madhya Pradesh. There, I met Inderjit Ahluwalia, a travel writing veteran and …
Smriti Modi of The Itch List recently interviewed me over email about my journey to becoming a travel blogger. Here are a few excerpts.
Everyone travels for a different reason. For some, a country is simply a notch on the travelling equivalent of a bedpost. For others, it’s a conversation starter. But it’ll never be anything more than a series of AC transfers and packaged Indian meals and half hour long stops at touristy landmarks, unless you make the change for yourself.
The picture most have of solo travel is that of staying in backpacker’s hostels and going clubbing with motley groups of tourists. But in Europe, I had the kind of solo travel where I met no one, spoke to no one and befriended no one for several days on end.