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For Women Traveling to India

It’s important that women travelers educate themselves to India’s social mores and culture to best prepare for a safe journey.

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Riding the Rails with Mother Theresa

Despite encouragement to ride first class, a woman decides to take coach and ride with the locals.

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Where Gods Showered Flowers on the Earth

Trekking in India with the whole family struck many of our friends as a bad idea.

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The Good Ones

A volunteer arrives in New Delhi to find she's been reassigned from an orphanage to working at a center for street boys at a railway station.

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Camel in India
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Elephants, Camels, Monkeys and More

An extended family braves a trip through India with young children in tow.

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We Might Die

Most of Ladakh is higher than 10,000 feet above sea level, and only accessible by road for six months a year.

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Gods and Gurus

So much for spiritual tourism! Instead of asking questions at the feet of this sage, questions were being asked of me.

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Sai is Everywhere!

One of India's most famous gurus, Sri Sathya Sai Baba is known for his eccentric looks — wild afro hair and trademark orange robe.

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Only Happy in India

Whenever I find myself glaring at life, I see Satheesh’s smile and his kind caution: “You have only so many days balance. Be happy, only happy.”

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The Noogieing Sadhu

A traveler to Varanasi has a fleeting and unexpected encounter with a holy man.

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How the Other Half Lives

A contrast of two Indias - one out on the streets and one tucked away in homes with air conditioning.

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The Calcutta Railway Riot

My life began in earnest the day I accidentally started a riot in a railway station in Calcutta.

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Lost and Found

A mother and young daughter visit an orphanage in India.

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Taken for a Ride

Twenty rupees was an insignificant sum of money to me, but it wasn’t the money I was after, it was the upper hand.

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Sankranthi in a Town Called Hampi

Known as the City of Ruins, Hampi is located in India’s state of Karnataka, situated about halfway between Bangalore and Bombay.

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A Beautiful Stain

My deepest regret was how little I understood about a country my parents once knew better than any other place in the world.

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About Beth I wear many hats as the founder of Wanderlust and Lipstick and WanderTours. I lead small group adventures to off-the-beaten-path destinations, am the author of the Wanderlust and Lipstick guides for women travelers and the publisher of this website. Read More…

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