An edited version of this story by our co-founder and photography mentor Shreeram MV was published in the online magazine Travel Jingles earlier this month. After an arduous journey through the temperamental Drake Passage, the first icebergs are a huge sign of relief. Antarctica is now within reach. The towering cliffs of the South Shetland islands […]
For a small landlocked country in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan is surprisingly visually rich and beautiful. Its tall snow-covered mountains reach to the sky, standing majestically amidst undulating landscapes. Its hills are home to gently wavering grasslands inhabited by semi-nomadic shepherds. These grasslands are dotted with yurts, the mobile homes of shepherds where a traveller encounters […]
Originally published on medium.com I bought my first camera nearly 15 years ago. It was pretty much a flimsy box with a plasticky ultra-wide lens designed for widest possible angle of view and also put everything in focus. It was one of those one-time use cameras with pre-loaded film, something that pre-digital photographers might remember. […]
Kyrgyzstan is a nation defined by its natural beauty. Joyously unspoilt mountainscapes, stark craggy ridges and rolling jailoos (summer pastures) are brought to life by semi-nomadic, yurt-dwelling shepherds - Lonely Planet Central Asia I was always fascinated about remote and unknown regions of Central Asia’s highlands. Even when there is not so much a thing called […]
We’ve travelled to Tal Chapar many times for over a decade now. And every time, we come across new wildlife sightings and experiences. Like this fight between 2 fully-grown male Nilgais. This amazing wildlife moment was captured on video by our guest Shankar Subramanian on our Grassland Fantasy tour in November 2017. That is indeed some […]
Caracal! I shouted. As the dust ruffled by four wheels suddenly braking started to settle down, the form of a cat started to appear. It was a really big small cat. Saturated tawny in coloration, it seemed least worried about the visitors. For a brief few seconds, I was elated at having encountered (entirely by […]