Battielal and the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve!
Battielal was our naturalist guide for our game drives through the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Sawai Madhopur, a town located about 100 miles southeast of Jaipur, reached by way of a four-hour hair-raising, constantly bumpy but most interesting drive. Until 1971, the year Indira Gandhi brought about a constitutional amendment which took away most of…
New Year’s Day falls on January 1st since when?
The answer: January 1st, 1753. If you live in America or in any other country then part of the British Empire, 1753 was the first year where January 1st was celebrated as the first day of a new calendar year. The Calendar Act of 1751 was the British law which set 1752 as the…
Puerto Vallarta – An Authentic Mexican Paradise
We first discovered Puerto Vallarta in the early 1980’s when my husband and I were living in Puebla, Mexico. It had become famous, or perhaps I should say “infamous”, during John Huston’s 1963 filming of The Night of the Iguana in Mismaloya, a small village just south of Puerto Vallarta. Thanks to the steamy romance of…
Bahrain, Persian Gulf island of one million palm trees!
Read our previous country posting: “Bahamas, 3000 islands Caribbean playground!” COUNTRY ROLL No 14 : Bahrain, the Persian Gulf island of one million palm trees! Photo Gulf Hotel Bahrain Read our related posting: “Best of Bahrain food: Machboos Dijaj, delicious spiced chicken with rice!” Read our next country posting: “Bangladesh, populous land…
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- …
- 38
- Next Page »