And then there was Varkala, a village on a cliff overlooking the sea. I’ll let the pictures do the rest. Oh, and I’ll throw in a couple of my favorite quotes while I’m at it: “Why do you never find anything written […]Read More ›

Madurai got me thinking about wealth. Leaving Mamalapuram, my backpack was getting full and I knew that I needed to downsize so I left a gray sweater and a pair of green cargo pants at the hotel. For some reason, leaving […]Read More ›

I left Chennai for the sleepy little fishing village of Mamallapuram. Compared to the north, it is very hot in the south. Even the animals looked overheated, and were curled up in swatches of shade, resting.   There was Arjuna’s […]Read More ›

Varanasi is one of the world’s oldest cities (dating back to 1400 B.C.) as well as one of the holiest. A woman in Udaiper told me that some people consider Varanasi one of the top four holiest (the other three being […]Read More ›

Agra’s Taj Mahal was built by Emperor Shah Jahan for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died giving birth to their fourteenth child in 1631. On her deathbed, Mumtaz’s final wish was for Shah to build something in her honor […]Read More ›

Jaipur is called the Pink City. For some reason, the colors and the architecture of Jaipur reminded me of South America. I visited the impressive Amber Fort/Palace (a complex began by Raja Man Singh, a noted Indian general, in 1600 and […]Read More ›

My next stop after Udaiper was a little town in the Snake Mountains called Pushkar.  Pushkar is one of the holiest cities in India. Hindus contend that Lord Brahma (one of the three principle Hindu gods and Creator of the Universe) battled with a […]Read More ›

“I was conscious that I was experiencing something unforgettable, one of those magical moments which we only understand when it has passed.  I was entirely in the present, with no past, no future, absorbed in experiencing the morning, the music, […]Read More ›