Tequisquiapan Sunrise

Surprise! My mom was looking at me with exactly the mix of shock and excitement that I had expected. I had startled her awake at 3 am that morning and told her to put on some warm clothes and comfortable footwear and be ready to leave the house in half an hour. She was a […]

‘Gorge’ous Gandikota

It was worth it. The calls back and forth for the last few weeks, making arrangements, the delayed flight where I never got coffee, the unimaginably bumpy, five-hour-long ride cab ride, waking up at 6 am…all of it was worth it for this view. No, this is not the Grand Canyon. This is Gandikota, a […]

California’s Danish Fairy Tale

What does a Scandinavian country, known for rustic windmills, buttery cookies, and Viking history have in common with Hollywood, Los Angeles, Sea World, Silicon Valley, Yosemite and Disneyland? Apparently, California. We had driven up a beautiful coastal road early that morning, along a surreal blue ocean towards Southern California’s Santa Ynez Valley. Here, at just […]

Tibet Trails

For a moment, I thought I was hallucinating. Or maybe I managed to teleport somehow? How else could I make sense of the fact that on our way to Coorg we were…in Tibet? We had left Bengaluru about 4 hours ago, headed to Coorg for a weekend in the misty hills. An hour away from […]