Roop Kund: My Himalayan Death Trek
I spent the whole summer of 2003 exploring India. After the first few weeks of hot and dusty excursions through the plains — checking out temples and riding overnight trains — I [...]
Ganga Dream – Varanasi, India – Daily Photo
Online photo gallery for pros – smugmugToday’s photo “Ganga Dream” (® 2010 Skip Hunt) was taken by Skip Hunt and was submitted in the Amateur Traveler March Photo contest. Skip says: I [...]
Book Review – Wanderlust and Lipstick: For Women Traveling to India
Granted, not being a woman, I am not the target audience for this book, but I thoroughly enjoyed Beth Whitman’s guide to India. This is not a guidebook to the individual sites [...]
Traveling to India as a Woman – Episode 160
The Amateur Traveler talks to Beth Whitman, author of Wanderlust and Lipstick for Women Traveling to India, about the joys and challenges of traveling to India, especially solo travel as a woman. [...]
Travel to Kerala, India – Episode 147
The Amateur Traveler talks to Megan Fitzgerald about her honeymoon to India and in particular her visit to the region of Kerala. Here about the beaches and the back waters, food, and [...]
Indian Airlines Can't Handle The Handlebar
Save $400 per couple on 2011 Asia VacationsRuy Maa – India: Delhi & Agra/Rajasthan DVD Wear a big mustache, lose your job. That’s what happened to an airline employee in India. Victor [...]
Trekking in the Himalayas in Northern India – Episode 63
The Amateur Traveler talks with Sam Oppenheim about his experience trekking in Northern India in the Himalayas in monsoon season: trekking, Buddhist monasteries, restaurants, beautiful views and hitchhiking monks. Ruy Maa – [...]
India and the Enduro India Motorcycle Rally – Episode 34
The Amateur Traveler talks to podcaster Ben Curtis from Notes from Spain about his recent participation in the Enduro India Motorcycle Rally. The Enduro India covered 2000 kilometers in two weeks in [...]
Traveling Around Round The World – Episode 10
The Amateur Traveler talks to Kirk and Donna about their trip around the world. Hear how they took a year off of work an honeymooned while they traveled around the world. Hear [...]

















