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Monica travelled solo to Bhimtal with India Untravelled, in January 2014. Staying at the Smetaceks' Colonial Homestay, she experienced a slice of the bygone era, and witnessed the Himalayas in all their majesty. This is her story.
Get off the tourist trail. Tear that guidebook. Shed your inhibitions. Let the real India charm you.
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Homestay in the Himalayas of Uttarakhand.
Monica travelled solo to Bhimtal with India Untravelled, in January 2014. Staying at the Smetaceks' Colonial Homestay, she experienced a slice of the bygone era, and witnessed the Himalayas in all their majesty. This is her story.
Spiti - A Dustland Fairytale.
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Three weeks after returning to Bombay, I shut myself from the frenzy outside and sit finishing my first story about Spiti. As I try explaining my struggle with words when sending postcards from what is believed to be the world’s highest post office back in Hikkim, the loud door bell interrupts me mid sentence, much to my annoyance.
Spiti: A World Within a World.
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My trip to Spiti happened exactly a year after my Ladakh trip. The high altitude, arid mountains, and strong sun were reminiscent of Ladakh, but Spiti is a world within a world, as described by Rudyard Kipling in his book Kim.
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