Tokyo, as one of the most populated cities in the world, has a lot of impressions and stereotypes attached to it. As a city girl myself, I had assumed that Tokyo would be much like Hong Kong, London, and Singapore. However, there are certain things that I found out on the ground that surprises me.
Welcome back to This is India! I always have funny/weird stories about India to share with friends or family when I talk to them. This is just meant to be an honest portrayal of my life in India through short anecdotes. I also share here what I’ve been up to online outside Hippie in Heels.
Did you know India has its very own "Blue City"? It does! Jodhpur, in Rajasthan. I've been here years ago as a backpacker and wrote some tips in this article but I recently revisited less on a backpackers budget and more on a mid-range budget. I came for fun but also to do research and see
Welcome back to This is India! I always have funny/weird stories about India to share with friends or family when I talk to them. This is just meant to be an honest portrayal of my life in India through short anecdotes. I also share here what I’ve been up to online outside Hippie in Heels.
India is a fantastic place to visit for yoga teacher training (YTT) courses, and often they are less expensive here than in the USA or Europe with even better teachers who know what "true yoga" is. Yoga originates in India and has been around since 5000 BC, so if you're going to learn how to teach
I really wasn't going to review my hotel in Udaipur in detail but decided after my stay that I would: 1) because it's my new favorite hotel in ALL OF INDIA 2) because I had SO many photos to share 3) because they have varied room rates making it affordable for pretty much everyone 4)
When people visit Vietnam, they usually do one of the three following things: a) Visit Hanoi b) Visit Ho Chi Minh City and c) Do a motorcycle ride across the entire country. Naturally, when I told people that I’ve been to Vietnam, they assumed that I had done one of the three. Well, actually, people who
When you arrive in India and hop in your first ever taxi ride, don't be surprised if the driver turns around and says, literally: "give me a nice tip?" or if you take a shuttle bus at the airport and someone says "give me twenty rupees tip" or maybe even someone trying to "help" you
