Wet, dewy green. Foliage pressing in from all directions. The Monteverde Cloud Forest is a mystical wonderland that morphs as quickly as its changing wind. Moments of dense green with only the sound of rain…
Browsing Category The Essence of a Place
Bali — striving to see it for what it is
Dragging our suitcases up the street, I take a last look at the penjors now standing outside of every home, every temple in preparation for one of the biggest ceremonies of the year — Galungan….
An account of Bali so far
Exotic is the word they use for places like these. Verdant rice fields make up the countryside, poles bearing makeshift flags of white t-shirts marking the spaces between the green rows. Engraved and painted swastikas…
What I want to say about travel
I’m trying to find the words to describe my travels. I want to write about this prolonged journey I’m on, with no foreseeable end in sight. I want to talk about how stripping away the…
The Things We Remember-Travel Vignettes
Travel leaves its imprint not in the form of bold, graphic stamps on our wrinkled brain but through lingering moments that seem to hover over the folds of grey matter. Little lingering snippets. The novel yet mundane details of…
The Essence of a Place: Amsterdam
How do you capture the essence of a place? Is it in the people? The food? The language? Or is it more than that? That je ne sais quois, that thing in the air you can’t…