Tropical Sri Lanka blasts us with sauna-like heat, and our eyes soak up the vivid greens of lush foliage and forests of swaying palms as we breeze along the new expressway from the airport into Colombo. This island country, known as Ceylon till 1972, is located off the southeastern coast of India. Our first outing…
The Milieu of Mumbai One doesn’t just walk the streets of Mumbai….we find ourselves weaving through the masses, bumping shoulders with locals, besieged with vendors calling, “just take a look”, are dazzled with street-shop colour, enticed by whirling wheels to sample juice from ubiquitous sugar cane grinders; the scorching air wafts with tantalizing food scents…
Elephanta Island Mumbai, India By Irene Butler – Check out Our India Photo Gallery/ Two colossal elephants once stood regally at the entrance of the island’s temple caves, hence the name coined by the Portuguese when they landed on its shores in the 1500s. In 1864, however, British attempts to take these elephants to England…
Published in Travellady.com E-Zine – Chennai and Area India by Irene Butler – Check out our India Photo Gallery/ – A beach is a beach is a beach…or so I thought. Something strikes me as peculiar about the13km of exceptionally wide Marina Beach in Chennai. No bikinis, or horizontal bodies slathered in tanning lotion, or…
Varanasi – by Irene Butler – Our India Photo Galleries Published in BC travel Writers Varanasi. The holiest place on earth in the Hindu religion through recorded time. Shiva, the destroyer god, reigns. He resides in every inch of the city. Over 2000 temples are dedicated to him. Every Hindu tries to come at least…
