Thinking of travelling to Norway? You can choose to travel either during the summers or the winters. The experience is completely different in both cases. Travelling during the winters will give you an opportunity to catch up with the celestial northern lights and the arctic adventures whereas the summers give you an opportunity to experience...
Our travel to Cambodia is always for and about Angkor Wat . And why not? Angkor Wat is the largest temple complex in the world. This UNESCO site features in the bucket list for a lot of people. However, limiting this country just to Angkor would be huge injustice. Along with the ancient history...
(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...
A preferred option for my travels is a self-drive itinerary – always! Though: a self-drive may not be feasible in all the places e.g. in South East Asia – where it might simply be too risky and economically not justifiable or in places where the main destination is the city itself e.g. Singapore. There is no...
Kalabsha? You will never see the name of this temple in any of the standard itineraries of Egypt. If you are with a guide, you would be told that it is a waste of time – mostly out of their own ignorance. At the least, you might see this monument on...
The “Tourist” to Egypt will have no idea of the ‘Other’ non-glamourous Pyramids of the Ancient Civilization of Egypt! But for the Experience Traveller, the Pyramids of Saqqara and Dashur will indeed have more charm – they predate the Pyramids of Giza and show the interesting history of the development of...
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...
Travelers usually feel that their trip to Egypt is complete with a visit to the Pyramids of Giza and the Nile Cruise! Alas beyond these iconic (and well marketed) experiences, we miss out on the not so usual destinations – which are equally beautiful and historic! One of these off-the-beat destination is...
One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world and the only one standing till date. Is it a work of aliens? How sophisticated in technology and knowledge were the ancient Egyptians? Are the pyramids tombs or temples – what was their purpose? Did they hold vast amounts of treasure? All these questions and all...