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May 192016
 
To Find Yourself – Go be a Wanderer

In Search of A True Wanderer Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?” “Because it’s there”, said George Mallory this has been called “the most famous three words in mountaineering” Then we have the famous lines “Not all those who wander are lost” -J. R. R. Tolkien, used, again and again by every traveler, tourists, and  true wanderer.  There are many ways folks like to describe their traveling style, from the traveler to tourist, to slow traveler, solo traveler but there is something magical in the word “ Wanderer “ that gives a timeless magnetic, almost poetic resonance to [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

May 012016
 
May 2016 Calendar Download Desktop Wallpaper – Prayer Flags Kunzum Pass

  May 2016 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper Let us welcome the month of May, one of the hottest in North India with some cool breeze from Kunzum Pass, fluttering the prayer flags surrounding the gompas there. If you have ever been to any place with Buddhist Monasteries you must have noticed the colorful Buddhist flags, that flutter in the piercing cold mountain air. When I first saw them in Sikkim during  a college trip, I was so captivated with the colorful flags that I got one for me. But as a solitary flag does not put much of a show, [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Mar 312016
 
April 2016 Calendar Download Desktop Wallpaper - Amman Citadel

April 2016 Calendar Desktop Wallpaper Confession time:  I cheated for the April 2016 Calendar for desi Traveler. As the regular readers of desi Traveler will know, I request readers to pick images for the calendar from already published images on the desi Traveler Blog. The wonderful readers that we have for my little blog, are kind enough to take time out and share the pictures they want to see on the calendar. I do it in the form of a contest to get more people to participate, and this year we gave away more than 10 calendars and like [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Mar 102016
 
Lufthansa "Announce Your Flight Contest" And the Winner is

  Lufthansa’s first in-flight announcement by a kid I am big on family travel and love traveling with my children. So I could never agree with the debate in flying circles that families with kids should be sent to the back of the plane and other such ideas floating around. We, Indians, are anyway big on traveling with family including kids and now with so many Indian families traveling to far away destinations, one is always looking for a kid-friendly airline. We have enjoyed our VVIP moments, thanks to our children, when a smiling airline hostess has asked us to jump [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Feb 292016
 
March 2016 Calendar: Download Desktop Wallpaper

  March 2016 Calendar Desktop Wallpaper Ah, the month of March will soon be marching in our lives announcing the end of spring and the wait for monsoons begin with the onset of early summers this year. Normally here in Delhi we keep our woolens till about a week before Holi, but this year we are in our  half sleeves already. So to ask the weather gods to let cooler weather  stay for a few weeks more, I am dedicating the  for the March 2016 desktop wallpaper Calendar to winters. So  ladies and gentlemen I give you the 85 feet idol [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Feb 012016
 
February 2016 Calendar - Download Desktop Wallpaper

February 2016 Calendar Desktop Wallpaper – Petra by Night Hello February, good to welcome you.  Now that the cold spell is in its last leg, and the soul enriching spring with its multiple hues is around the corner  I look forward to a fabulous February for all the readers of desi Traveler. For February 2016, desktop desi Calendar dear readers may I present to you a picture clicked at  Petra by Night in Jordan.  This picture is part of the most shared post on desi Traveler in the year 2015, and was shared by wonderful readers of desi Traveler more [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Dec 282015
 
Blog Wars: The Dark Side & Sleep Interrupted

Review of yet to be made movie on the yet to be written book called “Blog Wars, The Dark Side & Sleep Interrupted” Dear readers, if you are like me and deeply entrenched  into the history and mythology of the Blog Wars then you would be aware of some of the things I am about to share with you.  On the other hand if you are not aware of the mythology and history of the Blog Wars, then I suggest you read the post even more carefully for this is where the unofficial but uncut and uncensored history and [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Dec 102015
 
desi Traveler 2016 Calendar Contest Winners

Announcing The Winners of Travel Calendar 2016 dear Readers, it gives me immense pleasure to announce the winners of the desi Travel Calendar 2016 winners. Those of you who missed or have just joined the desi Traveler family you may want to chek the contest here:   Contest Alert 2016 Calendar Giveaway . I must say I am overwhelmed at the amount of participation in the contest and the support received from all of you for the contest. Before we move forward let me humbly accept some of the feedback received from fellow bloggers and readers  that they found the contest [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Nov 302015
 
December 2015 Calendar – Download Desktop Wallpaper

December 2015 Calendar Desktop Wallpaper : Sun-downer in Kerala Hello December and Good bye 2015. Yes the first day of the last month of 2015 is here and soon Christmas will be here followed by goodbyes to 2015. The year, the month, the moments will become memories some sweet some bitter and some will change hues over a time as we continue our journey on the third rock from the ball of fire that we call Sun. Nostalgia apart, December is here and so is our December 2015 Calendar desktop wallpaper for download, from your friendly neighborhood desi Traveler. As the picture [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Nov 142015
 
Get Ready for Kerala Blog Express 3 in 2016

  Kerala Blog Express Is Back Well the trip of a lifetime is back,  and about 25 travel bloggers from around the world will get a chance to participate in the same.  I am sure all the readers of desi Traveler are aware of Kerala blog Express My own experience with Kerala Blog Express was absolutely amazing and after that I visited Kerala again and have recommended Kerala to my friends and family again and again. But to go to Kerala as a tourist is one thing to visit God’s Own Country as a  travel writer in company of other [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]