Envision two cities worlds apart. You fly from one to the other, leaving a world of poverty, dirt, and crowded roads for intense cleanness, organization, and streets that work. Here’s a tale of a pair of such places. The taxi pulls in front of my hotel in Paharganj...
Where can you find an array of houses with multicolour door frames, windows and balconies? Nearby, very tall palms with lanky trunks grow in a valley surrounded by rounded green hills, accessible by taking a “Willy”, no not that willy. Welcome to Salento. Getting...
Barichara captivated me with its charm. I arrived after a 45-minute bus trip from San Gil, where nothing hinted at this colonial masterpiece. The village lies on the side of a hill, which descends on the Suarez River Canyon on one side. Green mountains lie on the...
Imagine an ancient Silk Road outpost that’s changed in the last 500 years.. A sand-coloured wall with a slope that reaches six meters high encloses the town while guards stand on the rounded towers. Camel caravans pass through the Palwan Darwase (East Gate), piled...
Stressed out, tired, sick of cars or just want to escape to the sound of goat bells and the wind. The solution: go to Loutro on Crete’s south coast. No, it’s not undiscovered and yes, all those shining white buildings lining the cove are hotels, but who cares?...
