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.
Archive for the Amritsar to Calcutta Category
Namaste, y’all. . .
July 26th, 2005 |
By Joshua |
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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.
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Category: (d) India, Amritsar to Calcutta
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