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Dubai 10 Best Places That You Must Visit in This Winters

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10 Enchanting European Palaces For a Fairytale Experience!

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Vietnam was a great learning experience for me. I was young, mostly clueless, giddy with freedom and very unprepared for […]

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Limestone karsts scenery of Tam Coc in Ninh Binh

Vietnam‘s Tam Coc is referred to as the miniature landlocked version of the famous Halong Bay and both the places […]

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Cologne Diaries, Europe, Expat Life, Germany, Outside India

The blooming fields of Lüneburger Heide in Germany

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Rothenburg ob der Tauber: postcard pretty or overrated?

Whenever you search for the prettiest villages/towns in Europe on the internet, Rothenburg ob der Tauber tops the list. Indeed, […]

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Slow traveling and not paragliding in Bir

If ever an anticlimax can be beautiful, then Bir trip was very successful at that. Although my expectation from the […]

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Slow traveling in Manali

Manali happened by chance. I had no intention of going there and no reason to stop when a flat tire […]

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