Dusk in the Monkey Kingdom
Several months after the monsoon the landscape of Hampi is desolate and other-worldly. Save the glowing green rice paddies and banana plantations thriving in well irrigated valleys, the occasional stunted […]
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An Amateur’s Guide to Birders and Birding
We were all chatting over a slightly bland but otherwise well prepared dinner at Backwoods Goa birding camp (the guide, used to fickle western tourists, had immediately assured us much […]
The Saffron Coast
Goa’s horizons are red. A pale pinkish red, the bright saffron of the Indian flag, and the the deep, rust color of dried blood. It exposes itself up and down […]
Mumbai 101
We’d just finished our first Dosa since Penang the previous winter, its savory potato masala blending in our mouths with tangy mint chutney christening our yearly sovereign to the tropics […]
Beneath Himalayan Skies
We were gradually making our way up towards Annapurna Circuit’s 17,770 ft (5416 m) Throng La Pass when we stopped in the village of Manang (12,5000 ft) for a day […]
In Search of Guatemala’s Resplendent Quetzal
In the months preceding our departure to Central America, Laura talked incessantly about wanting to see Guatemala’s national bird the Resplendent Quetzal. Not being as passionate of a birder as […]
