Sitting down at a small local restaurant in India and choosing something from the menu without quite knowing what will arrive is a particular pleasure...

The vehicle that keeps appearing on Kerala’s roads looks, at first glance, like something that rolled off an American assembly line in 1953 and somehow...

The hotel room had a refrigerator. That is a detail that starts to matter around mid-afternoon, when you have been in a car for six...

Fort Kochi is on a peninsula and the bus station is on the mainland, but I had a plan. Get up early, walk 500 meters...

Seeing “Ashok Leyland” on the front of the bus that pulled into Kochi bus station this morning, I had a small flash of recognition. Leyland....

They’re in the thousands. They are everywhere in the big cities in Southeast Asia. Hanoi, Bangkok, Saigon, Colombo are full of them. I’m talking about...

The departure point for the tour was two hundred meters from my homestay. That was not coincidence, I had done my research before pick a...

Got up at 6 AM for my morning flight to Kochi via Chennai with IndiGo. I had intended to just take a tuktuk to the...

Negombo sits about 30 kilometers north of Colombo and 8 kilometers from the international airport, which is exactly why I was going there: flight out...