by Chiara Guerrieri | Sep 8, 2015 | Exploration, Featured, General, India 2016, Travel
Popular for its natural fisheries and springs, the temple of Kerala’s saint Sree Narayana Guru, and for it’s total relaxation mindset, Varkala is a coastal town with pristine beaches, hills, lakes, forts, lighthouses, altogether making it a subtle bit of...
by Chiara Guerrieri | Aug 15, 2015 | Exploration, Featured, General, India 2016, Travel
Alleppey is graceful and greenery-fringed, disappearing into a watery world of villages, punted canoes, toddy shops and, of course, houseboats. Float along and gaze over paddy fields of succulent green, curvaceous rice barges and village life along the banks, as you...
by Chiara Guerrieri | Aug 3, 2015 | Exploration, Featured, General, India 2016, Travel
Eco-tourism is more than a catch phrase for nature loving travel and recreation. Its real mission is to accommodate and entertain visitors in a way that is minimally intrusive or destructive to the environment, while sustaining and supporting the native cultures in...
by Chiara Guerrieri | Jul 25, 2015 | Exploration, Featured, General, India 2016, Travel
The Journey Continues in Ft. Kochi, Kerala, India From North Malé Atoll, our India 2016 Transformative Journey heads northeast to Kerala, India, “God’s own country.” We’ll fly from Malé International Airport to Cochin International Airport, where our final...
by Chiara Guerrieri | Jul 12, 2015 | Exploration, Featured, General, India 2016, Travel
The Journey Starts in North Malé Atoll (Kaafu Atoll) Our full India 2016 Transformative Journey begins in Maldives, “where sands are white as the smiles of the locals, where fish swim happily in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, where the weather is a dream, and...
by Chiara Guerrieri | Jun 30, 2015 | Exploration, Featured, General, Travel
Barbra and I are water creatures: we both love being by, in and on the water. By chance, we realized that our journey to India coming up in January 2016, is entirely centered around water: We visit the Maldives, a necklace of islands poking out of a turquoise...