India

20 Jan 2017

Buying and activating a SIM Card in India

After that more than once that I was in a country for several weeks or even several months, I finally regretted not having bought a local SIM card, I decided that in India would not happen the same thing again....

31 Oct 2016

Discovering the ancient art of henna

One of the secular traditions of South Asia, Middle East and North Africa is the art of henna. In these different areas, this kind of art was developed more or less in the same period. But of course in different...

15 Mar 2016

Samba(r)… Not just a dance!

While being in South India, they kept on asking us about samba. At first, we innocently thought it was about the so-known dance but by the time we reached the state of Tamil Nadu, we realized this was a south...

23 Feb 2016

The home-made taste of Maharashtra: Pitla

These last days I’m not posting new content due to lack of Internet and also because my phone kind of died and came back to life… Several times. Funny thing is that my girlfriend Eugenia, who stays in India volunteering...

08 Feb 2016

Sneaking into an Indian wedding

I was so quiet walking around Agra with Eugenia and a Chinese traveler we had known when the Couchsurfer where I was staying called me. We had arranged a dinner together that night and he told me then that he...

02 Feb 2016

The magic of the city of Dharamsala

The first big surprise for me in northern India, was not that much the wonderful golden temple but the quiet town of Dharamsala. While it is not as bright, nor as majestic, and does not welcomes as many people to...

18 Jan 2016

From heaven to hell: Taking my first train in India

Having stopped the blog posts for four weeks due to server problems, I have accumulated many experiences that I want to tell, like when after a month being in India, I took my first train in this country and the...

09 Dec 2015

Wagah border, the performance of the eternal conflict between Pakistan and India

With all the borders that I have crossed in the last years, and especially in the last months, I am still surprised with what my eyes saw few days ago, because for the first time in my life, I went...

02 Dec 2015

Spending 5 days learning yoga in an ashram

Because not only about nature and cities to discover lives the traveler but experiences, I decided to get to the city of Rishikesh, the yoga capital of the world. There I spent five days doing a kind of spiritual retreat...