Notripophobia

The Fear of a Life Without Travel

Month: March 2020

2019 Travels in Review

2019 was an amazing travel year. I visited four new countries including Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain and traveled to many new parts of India. From Ladakh to the Andaman Islands and from Srinagar to Pondicherry, I got a…

How Travel Saved My Life

2020 has had a rough start. While Australia burned, a virus began to ravage its way through China. By the end of Q1, the world was at a standstill as countries began to grapple with the prospect of a public…

Saying Goodbye to India

As my two years in India is comes to an end, I have been thinking a lot about what makes this country so special. India isn’t just the Taj Mahal or Mumbai, Goa or Kerala.  It isn’t Gully Boy or…

Two Weeks in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a country of rich cultural diversity.  Pashtuns, Hazaras, Tajiks…..the complexity is mind-boggling.   Due to these many ethnic differences and outside influences, Afghanistan is also a country that has been in a state of instability for the past…