How often do we find ourselves in an unfamiliar destination with no room booked, no one to meet us, and very little prior knowledge about the place where we’ve just landed? These days, “not often” is the most common answer. I’m starting to feel more and more that traveling without much of a plan is […]
Bargaining in Bali
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 […]