I wanna touch the northern lights We could leave the world behind I wanna know what it’s like To walk away from this life – Northern Lights Jaymes Young My first tryst with Aurora Borealis was through the lovely pictures clicked by my friend and his never ending narratives about the phenomena. So what is Aurora...
I was very fascinated by this country called Laos since I had heard quite a bit about it. I had not met too many folks who had travelled there, though had read a lot of dope on the internet. This was a country that had been closed to outsiders till a couple of decades...
Angkor Wat, Cambodia is the largest temple complex of the world. The city where the temple was built, Angkor (meaning city in Khmer), is located in Siem Reap, and was once the capital of the Khmer Empire. This city contains hundreds of temples. It is said that in its prime, Angkor had a population of...
Christmas Book Flood If Christmas is around the corner, Icelandic publishing houses will release hundreds of new titles onto the Icelandic book market. This commences a unique tradition known as the jólabókaflóð, or the Christmas Book Flood. During this bustling and much-anticipated yearly event, bookstores across Iceland resemble miniature concert venues. Icelandic authors of all genres...
Christmas over these many years has always been about joy and celebration with friends, family, cakes, wine and presents… This time we were wondering about celebrating it with Santa at his home in Rovaniemi… We had always wanted to visit Rovaniemi and the Santa Claus Village to participate in a traditional Lapland Christmas. We all know...
“Set-jetting” is about visiting the sets or locations where GoT was filmed.. It’s a modern iteration of the literary pilgrimage – remember how Stratford-upon-Avon for long thrived on the memory of its most famous dead resident, Shakespeare? Or the Lake District with its many literary greats like Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter?Iceland’s economy, from being on...
Icelandic horse Icelandic horse is the only horse breed from Iceland. And it is what they call a pure-breed. This is a land where very few living creatures existed. Leave alone the horse. How did they come here? The history of this horse and the tradition is an interesting one. History of the Icelandic Horse - Pure...
(Content and images by Amoghavarsha) Amoghavarsha is a photographer from Bangalore and he was a part of the Beyonder Group that travelled to Norway in January 2017 for chasing the Northern Lights or if I can say experiencing the Aurora Borealis phenomena. This was Amogh’s first experience of witnessing Northern lights and of course capturing it...
This for me was a trip which was about looking at Nepal beyond the obvious, beyond the mountains and the trekking and the natural beauty. Going Beyonder in Nepal. Kathmandu has its sights, Pokhara its beauty, but I had done all these in my previous trip-the ancient Pashupathinath temple, the Bhooda Neelkanth with its...
Angkor Archaeological Park is 20 minutes away from the Siem Reap city centre , and it is spread across an area of approximately some 400 square kilometres, including forested area. It contains the magnificent remains of several capitals of the Khmer Empire of the 9th to the 15th centuries, including the largest pre-industrial city in...
