Category: travels/explorations
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:...
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’....
A trip to a little-visited island made in 1981 with Diana Herrington.
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...
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,...
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...