A NOTE BEFORE YOU START: India is not a destination. It is an experience that happens to have borders. It will overwhelm you, enchant you, frustrate you, feed you better than anywhere else on earth, and send you home fundamentally changed. This guide was written with one purpose: to get you there properly prepared, so […]
I didn’t expect Kerala to stay with me the way it did. I’ve done the Rajasthan circuit. I’ve navigated Bangkok solo at midnight. I’ve eaten my way through Penang and pretended to understand wine in Tuscany. But there was something about standing on the deck of a houseboat in Alleppey at 6am — mist still
Let me be straight with you: Thailand is not as cheap as it was in 2015. The cat’s out of the bag. Instagram happened. Digital nomads happened. Post-COVID “revenge travel” happened. And yet — Thailand is still one of the best-value destinations on the planet if you know where to look and what to skip.
Every time someone says “I want to go to Goa,” at least three people around them go “oh bhai, Goa is so expensive now.” And honestly? Those people are not entirely wrong. Goa has gotten pricier — especially if you’re booking last minute in December, eating at shacks that have “Instagrammable” in their bio, and
