The Hunt for Red Panda

Let me ask you this: would you wrap the Hope Diamond in a filthy rag? Would you dress a beautiful woman in a burlap sack? Would you hang a P...

Varanasi, the city known as Benares during the British Raj, and referred to as Kashi by many locals, is one of the oldest cities in the worl...

*******For those of you who don't know the importance of the town Bodhgaya, it is the place where the historical Buddha is said to have ...

We were welcomed to the state of West Bengal, in the town of Siliguri, by a barrage of auto-rickshaw (a three-wheeled motorized vehicle with...

The following morning we tried, in vain, to take the Toy Train up to Ghoom Monastery from where we could walk to the Peace Pagoda. Honza bat...

We awoke the next morning to a rain shower and a giant spider friend who had crawled through the hole in the wall under the sink which a lo...

The road to Darjeeling lead from Pelling to Jorethang, on the border of Sikkim and West Bengal, and then, in another shared and smushed Jeep...