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Hadibo and the ugly side of urbanization of remote tropical paradise

“You will be staying at the Taj of Socotra”, beamed my affable guide to me. We were out of the […]

April 13, 2020

I first came to know of the Socotra island when I was in school. A brilliant TV commercial featuring the […]

April 12, 2020

“It is not down in any map, True places never are” – Herman Melville. This is completely applicable to Socotra […]

April 11, 2020

The attention span of humans is very short and the memory is even shorter. It has the wonderful capability of […]

April 10, 2020

It is officially spring in Cairo. The weather is moody swiftly changing from sunshine to clouds to horrible sandstorms. Cold […]

March 9, 2020

In 2013 or 2014, I spent some weeks in Sri Lanka. It was during monsoon and tourism was at its […]

February 14, 2020

Horton Plains, with the highlight of the World’s End, is one of the best side trips from the tea hill […]

February 13, 2020

The dramatic precipice of the World’s End is located halfway of a 9 kilometers hiking route through the Horton Plains […]

February 12, 2020

Drip-drip, the rain fell insistently outside my window. It was not a hard, drumming rain that bears down like dead […]

February 11, 2020

Sri Lanka’s Hill Country is travel postcard pretty. It is a kind of place that lets you hike in shirtsleeves […]

February 10, 2020