Travel

Travelling through Central Asia the last few decades has been one of the side benefits of my professional career. Conversations...

Wadi Rum – the very name echoes the sound of rippling sand and lurching camels. Recently, I spent time in...

Infrastructure is the main consideration for the development of a country. Developed countries have good infrastructure that facilitates the transport...

I flew from San Francisco, California to Atlanta, Georgia with the intention of driving to Chattanooga and Nashville in Tennessee....

In June 2019, the World Bank, according to its website, approved the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Integrated Tourism Development Project (KITE). The fund...

This trip had been long in the making. My interest in Germany began when I was in high school and...

Many people have a fear of flying. I don’t and have flown more than 4 million miles without giving much thought...

Dashing from pillar to post trying to squeeze in visits to relatives and friends alongside interviews of 2 feminist activist-artists...

The pyramids at Giza near Cairo are the only surviving members of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. I...

Puerto Vallarta lies in southern Mexico on the Pacific coast. We had been there once before, in 2019, and checked...

After a gap of more than 44 years, I decided to revisit London in August 2022. The London of 2022...

This author spent his formative years within the walled city of Lahore. Recently, he visited Shah Alam Market on an...

In the darkness of the early morning hours, a driver and tour guide were taking us up the High Andes...

While touring the urban delights of Melbourne, we discovered that there was a place called Phillip Island, which was worth...

Ever since we saw the Eight Immortals opera in Beijing, we had been planning to visit South Korea. Late one...

When I was invited to speak at a conference in Naples, I imagined I would be heading to Italy. Alas,...

I saw the all-time epic Gone with the Wind in Karachi in the late 1960s. It glorified the way of...

Boarding the Careem car that I had earlier booked, the Captain gave me a quizzical look and asked if I...

This is the seventh and last part of my travelogue to Naran, Gilgit and Naltar valleys. It consists of impressions...

Thar is the 17th largest desert in the world and the ninth largest sub-tropical desert. It is spread over thousands...

Geological forces are immense, perhaps beyond calculation. Science is only now getting certain about what moves the tectonic plates under...

Boston is in many ways the epicentre of New England. I had visited it numerous times on business since the...

In the previous article, I had described our stay in Gilgit. The story continues here with our drive to the...

An opportunity came to spend three days in LA and it was hard to pass. But what would I do...

In the previous article in this series, the journey from Babusar Top to Gilgit was recounted. This part of the...

In the previous part of this travelogue, our drive from Naran to Lulusar Lake and upto the Triple Point ahead...