“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
I so distinctly remember the feelings, the emotions that I went through the first time I had come to the...
How cold will -25 deg C be ? I will be able to give you an idea in my next...
Last year, a rhino was killed every 15 hours. Let’s zoom out and find out what that actually means. At...
Wildlife photography trips are full of long hours with nothing to do. Our ship was steaming away to the next...
There are times when you watch a scene unfold in front of you, right from the start to the very...
“ This is a graveyard for drones” Jens, our guide, announced with a chuckle. This was in 2022, during my...
Phototrips can be bloody tiring. I reached home a little after noon. A journey that was a tale of delayed...
As you read this, I would have either just reached the northern most inhabited place on this earth – Longyearbyen...
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night...
I would have loved to have spent a few quiet days after the trek. Any trek gives you time to...
It all started rather innocuously. As it usually does. A good friend, S, suggested we do a trek. Something light...
“ Oh so where is your next trip ? “ “Goa in August.” “ Oh but it would be raining.”...
I am back home. From near zero and sub zero degree temperatures, straight into the boiling cauldron that Bangalore has...
Out in the wild, the drama is constant. Every minute is a sequence in the never ending dance for survival....
There are 19 species of marine mammals in Svalbard. 3 species of terrestrial mammals. And a whopping 237 species of...
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul - John Muir My footsteps gave...
First off, sincere apologies about missing the last scheduled newsletter. I was far away, in a desolate place, totally disconnected...
Its an oft repeated cliché that every moment in the wild is a fight for survival. A see saw battle...
“ So, do you live here or are you visiting ? “ “ I have come for a visit.” “...
I shifted uncomfortably in my seat. I could feel a tiny rivulet of sweat start its journey from the back...
“ We got a sighting.” The handset crackles, voices exchange messages and those are the magic words from Fabiano, uttered...
Transpantaneira. The highway to nowhere. For some reason, the story of this highway has always fascinated me. Somewhere in the...
‘ So, where is your next trip ?” “ Brazil.” “ Oh wow !! The Amazon ?” “ No, to...
Once you have lived with mountains Under the whispering pines And deodars, near stars, And a brighter moon, With woodsmoke...
‘ Yay !! We did it !!” We exulted in the sheer delight of having crossed the last big rapid....
I paused for a break. Ahead of me … steps. Lots of steps. Downhill fortunately. Going downhill can be hell...
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