Driving in Rajasthan in India has its rewards. A slight detour off the road from Jodhpur to Udaipur, led us to the magnificent Jain temple of Ranakpur. We were only an hour from Udaipur but with...

Pushkar’s Camel Fair is like no other! For about ten days prior to the full moon in either late October or early November, the holy town of Pushkar in India is overrun with camels, horses,...

After a few days in Delhi, I decided to head to the hills and the cooler weather of the hill station of Darjeeling. The road trip to Darjeeling takes a couple of hours, nearly as...

 Sunday Snapshot from India   The wonderful faded frescoes adorning the walls of the havelis (houses) of the Shekhawati region of India are all that remain to remind us that this was once a wealthy...

  One of the highlights of staying in Kerala is to take a tour of the backwaters on a Kettuvallam or houseboat.   The boats leave from Alappuzha or Alleppey as it was formerly known,...

As much as I love eating at local restaurants in Delhi, there are one or two hotel restaurants that I must return to each trip! Bukhara Restaurant in the Sheraton ITC Mauyra Hotel is one...