The Tranquilo Traveler
The Tranquilo Traveler is a celebration of voluntourism, slow travel, and other interesting ways to see the world. Travel writer and award- winning Moon Handbooks author Joshua Berman created The Tranquilo Travel as a resource for world trippers and international volunteers, a window to the author’s travels in Nicaragua, Belize, and beyond, and an update of his books and articles.
Namaste, y’all. . .

We skipped the flag lowering ceremony at the Wagha border — a much-hyped event in which Pakistani and Indian soldiers try to out-shout, out-march, and out-mustache each other to the crowds’ delight on both sides of the border. It was just too hot and, after what we’d just experienced in Lahore, seemed too staged.
So, after walking across the long tarmac of no-man’s land, paying out nearly 1,000 rupees (around $24) in baksheesh to a series of porters, customs guards, and anyone else who asked us for money, we arrived in India to a small crowd of money changers, taxi drivers, and beverage sellers tempting us with the first ice-cold beers we’d seen since Paris. But we stayed our course and made a line for Amritsar and the Golden Temple.

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