Category: travels/explorations

A Wanderful Beginning – Greece 1973

6th October 1973(Yom Kippur) I board a flight in London, bound for Tel Aviv, where I am due to help out on an archaeological dig at Caesaria on the Galilee. The plane makes an unscheduled stop in Athens and the captain makes a dramatic announcement:...

Seven Sacred Springs -Explorations in a Goan Village 2013

Early in 2013 I was living in the village of Assagao in North Goa when  I chanced on a little privately-printed booklet about the village. I was immediately intrigued to read in it of ‚seven mineral-rich hill springs with healing properties, now abandoned and forgotten’....

Hippy Trail 1975 London to Afghanistan

From a journal written on the road between England and the East in 1975. I had just turned 20; my girlfriend Liz was just 17. Tuesday March 25thLeaving England on the 6.30 boat from Dover, stoned on the beach with L, watching myself watching the...

First Sarod 1985

Bhagwan, Bangla, Bhalobasa. 1986

Extracts from a Bengal Diary 1986 by Chinmaya Dunster (NB translations are given at the end for Bengali words not explained in the text) CALCUTTA Thursday, 2nd October There is a temptation on landing at Dum Dum airport, after nineteen hours of flight via Moscow,...

Smiles from the Forest 2008

Osho talking about the adivasis (tribals) of Bastar in central India: “They are some of the most beautiful people in the world, they should be preserved. They are the only happy people, they know how to dance and how to sing, how to love and...