Beyond Words

By Nandini Chakraborty

Stories from travel. There is nothing that teaches us more than human interaction, culture, and history. Travel breaks misconceptions, challenges assumptions and teaches us the true worth of this world of ours.

Previous issues

Beyond Words - Issue #40 Armenia trip diary

#40 Nov 13, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #39 Festivals special

#39 Oct 22, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #38 Trip diary from Uttarkhand,Part 3, Valley of Flowers

#38 Sep 17, 2022

#37

Sep 5, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #37 Trip diary from Uttarkhand, Part 2 – Dear Reader, I have decided to take you through my diary slowly. Slower than I originally planned. So
#36

Aug 29, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #36 Trip diary from Uttarkhand, Part 1 – The Valley of Flowers and Hemkund Sahib are well known treks in Uttarkhand, India. Accessed from the
#35

Aug 4, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #35 Georgia, a trip diary – Georgia and Armenia. Two lovely countries nestled against the lofty Caucasus mountains. Ex-Soviet Uni
#34

Jun 24, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #34 – Raghurajpur is an artisan village in the state of Orissa, India. The nearby town of Pipli has more to
#33

May 16, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #33 Mexico City – A week in Mexico City with day trips built in. A family holiday to celebrate my husband's 50th. It co
#32

May 4, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #32 What travel has taught me about religion. – ‘I have an Arabic name, not a Muslim one,’ a guide in Bethlehem had once told me, in a travel moment
#31

Apr 26, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #31 Pink footed geese spectacle, Snettisham, UK – Overseas travel is back. COVID is not over and the pandemic has taught us how fragile and unpredictab
#30

Apr 18, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #30 A taste of Transylvania: March 2022 – When we first told friends we were going to Cluj Napoca, the reaction was 'Where???'. At the end of j
#29

Apr 13, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #29- Sri Lanka, one week, February 2017 – The Sri Lanka trip was a 'big family one'. 3 generations. Six months later my father passed away. Ver
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Mar 8, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #28 The village of singing artisans, where talent speaks more than gender – The Chitrokaars of Bengal are a tradition to themselves. It took me four decades of my life and the i
#27

Feb 13, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #27 Helsinki and Tallinn, a trip diary – This trip done in October 2021 was our first overseas venture after a full year and done just before
#26

Jan 29, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #26 The Pilgrim's beach – This is not a beach that will make it to the pages of a beach holiday advert. Its pictures are not of
#25

Jan 15, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #25 Across a river: a view of one country from another – Political boundaries criss-cross our earth, dividing human populations which are just a hand's breadt
#24

Jan 8, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #24 48 hours in Riga – This trip report is about Riga but it is also about travel in COVID times. Hopefully some of the tips
#23

Jan 1, 2022

Beyond Words - Issue #23 Part 4 of 4- the last lap, Lake Titicaca and the Uros islands – At a sea level of 10,000 feet, Lake Titicaca is the world's highest altitude navigable lake. The Uros
#22

Dec 25, 2021

Beyond Words - Issue #22 Peru part 3-Machu Picchu and the Classic Inca Trail – Machu Picchu and the Classic Inca Trail. Nothing is more iconic of a trip to Peru. I will never look
#21

Dec 17, 2021

Beyond Words - Issue #21 Peru part 2- Cusco and the Sacred Valley – After the rain forests of Tambopata it was a few days in Cusco, Pisac, Incan monuments in the Sacred

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