If there is a typical image of India it is the famous ‘Golden Triangle’, which includes Delhi, Agra and Jaipur. Many people fly into Delhi and take a trip around this triangle [...]

I made this image at the Amber Palace, in Amber, India, just outside of Jaipur, which is also know as the Pink City. This woman was one of several sweeping the palace [...]

It’s a mystery to me We have a greed With which we have agreed When you think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all you won’t [...]

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 [...]

Today’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 was traveling in India and in [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Wear a big mustache, lose your job. That’s what happened to an airline employee in India. Victor Joynath De was grounded by Indian – formerly called Indian Airlines- in 2001 for refusing [...]

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. [Audio clip: view [...]