Regardless of whether you ended up having seven days on Easter Island because of choice (smart one, by the way), or because of flight windows (as was my case), you would have more time...
The taxi arrived in the darkness, as promised. I scrambled to gather my things, and struggled briefly with the fidgety lock on the door. I was going to see the famous Easter Island heads...
My first morning in Rapa Nui* broke with rain. The incandescent sky of the previous day had been quickly overtaken by storm clouds fetched by the fleet Pacific winds. Overnight, the wind howled over...
One negative thing about the efficient Dutch public transport network – it made me complacent. I thought I should go to Delft on my final weekend in the Netherlands, since it’s supposed to be...
In hindsight, I suppose I could have gone to Panorama Mesdag on the same day as when I went to the Escher museum. I could have saved a few euro. I was curious about it...
Our Random World / The Netherlands
by Teja · Published February 26, 2019 · Last modified April 16, 2019
Let’s get one thing out of the way. I had two weekends in the Hague, and I did not see the Girl with the Pearl Earring. In fact, I did not go to see any...
Our Random World / The Netherlands
by Teja · Published February 24, 2019 · Last modified June 2, 2019
For a couple of weeks in 2017 I was in the Netherlands, neither a tourist nor just in town for meetings. I had the opportunity to switch offices, and work with colleagues there for...
I came to Agra on a day trip from Delhi, intending to see the famous monument to love, the Taj Mahal. But I left with two love stories, not one. You see, I also...
How do you enjoy art without feeling the human behind the poured genius? You are afraid of grief. You cannot bear to listen to trauma and refuse to note its signs not even when...
I had a free day in between the day I got my train tickets to Agra, and the day of actually going to Agra. So I decided to join a Delhi walking tour that my...
I had one day in Lucknow, and a laundry list of must-sees, courtesy of an Indian travel blogger in my network. I figured, even if I came to Lucknow on a whim, I thought I...
There was a little cafe in front of the meditation place in Pokhara, where I was instructed to go to for my sound therapy session. Umbrella Cafe was a hippy sort of place, with...
Artificial glacier provides fresh water to villagersEngineers created an artificial glacier that provides fresh water.
Posted by In The Know Innovation on Tuesday, 1 May 2018
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One reason why I publish my entire carbon offset every year and not just the flights (usually around February, if you're looking back in my timeline), is to show you the contribution of flights into the energy mix, and the difference between a year when I made intercontinental trips, vs regional, vs a year when I travelled less.
On the one hand, as someone from the developing world, I can say that the efficiency gains in the aviation industry of the past few decades has democratised mobility in much the same way as the internet has democratised access to knowledge. On my blog you can read what it is that I travel for, and to represent whom.
However, a great proportion of air travel growth are driven by increasingly frivolous reasons. Since air travel is incredibly carbon intensive, this is driving an increasingly untenable impact on the planet.
How much of that can be abated, I wonder, if there was no peer pressure to travel?
#wanderlust #frequentflyer #consumerism #FOMO #ThinkTuesday
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#WebMonday
I'm sure I'll return to Nepal for when EthicalCashmere is ready for its next stage. If I opt fo fly from Kathmandu to Pokhara, I'll remember Yeti Airlines.
#carbonoffsetting #carbonneutral #airline
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Yeti Airlines becomes Nepal’s first carbon neutral airline | UNDP in Nepal
Yeti Airlines has become the first airline in Nepal, and most probably South Asia, to successfully reduce and offset its tota...Teja on the Horizon is at Tahai.
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I don't normally use filters, but the sunlight streaming down upon Tahai on this particular evening has a certain special mood in sepia tones.
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