For many people, bargaining is an alien concept. You see a price tag, you pay it. But for Southeast Asians, bargaining is a way of life. While we are experts in bargaining back home in India, we didn’t bargain much on our first trip to Bali, to be honest – one of our biggest mistakes. […]
From Snow to Shining Snow – Russia Beyond Moscow
Russia is the world’s largest country, but most visitors confine themselves to a tiny portion of it: Moscow and St. Petersburg. While both of those cities are absolutely worth a trip, or several, they do give off the impression that Russian history is a story of all-powerful tsars, leaving only hazy images of the taiga […]
5 Ways You Can Expect to be Changed by Solo Female Travel
Traveling alone was never my intention. In fact, up until a few years ago, I would have considered myself quite the opposite of a “strong independent woman.” But after making concrete plans to travel with a partner two separate times only to have them back out at the last minute, I realized that I wanted […]
Build a Traveling Circus: The Art of Keeping in Touch with Fellow Travelers
Nearly everything I know about keeping in touch, I learned from my Australian travel mate, Dave. We only traveled together for about two weeks, but somehow I found myself playing host to him in New York City a year later. How? Through what Dave calls the “traveling circus.” Whether your goal is to build a […]