Aug 19th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
My old friend Lauri, who happens to be a pilot for Finnair, just snapped a photo of what might just be the worst possible job in any airport in the world: runway monitor. Indira Gandhi International Airport is the largest airport in India and a critical hub for scores of airlines passing through the Asian continent. With so much traffic passing through its three runways, debris is bound to ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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The World's Worst Airport Job
Aug 19th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
My old friend Lauri, who happens to be a pilot for Finnair, just snapped a photo of what might just be the worst possible job in any airport in the world: runway monitor. Indira Gandhi International Airport is the largest airport in India and a critical hub for scores of airlines passing through the Asian continent. With so much traffic passing through its three runways, debris is bound to ...Photo Of The Day: Vendor In Delhi
Jun 24th, 2012 at 6:00PM:
Street vendors - you seem them everywhere. From the newsstands of Las Ramblas in Barcelona to the Pad Thai carts of Bangkok, street side commerce is an inevitable, enjoyable part of daily urban life for most of the world. In today's photo, taken by Flickr user clee130, we find a balloon and toy seller in New Delhi, India. The bright colorful orbs create a striking visual focal point to the ...No skeletons on the New Delhi metro, please
Jul 30th, 2011 at 3:00PM:
A friend of mine, freelance photographer Jane Shepherdson, was recently in New Delhi and rode on the city's metro (subway system). She captured this odd sign about what's prohibited for passengers to carry.
Some of it is predictable, such as explosives, guns, and radioactive materials. You also can't carry "manure of any kind" (including your own, one would suppose) or rags. That includes ...Five ways to get to Kabul, Afghanistan
Nov 2nd, 2010 at 8:00AM: Does your definition of "adventure travel" involve a safety briefing and equipment to keep you safe? If so, there's a hard-core version of the concept that you've been missing. Chase the ultimate thrill in Afghanistan, and your world will never be the same. In case you haven't heard, there's a war going on, not to mention plenty of corruption. You will have an adventure to talk about when if you ...William Dalrymple: Understanding the continent of India
Sep 30th, 2010 at 12:30PM: William Dalrymple is one of the West's pre-eminent India experts. He is the author of seven works of history and travel, including In Xanadu, The Age of Kali, City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the best-selling From the Holy Mountain, White Mughals, which won Britain's most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson, and The Last ...Terrorists injure two tourists near Delhi mosque
Sep 19th, 2010 at 8:30AM: Two tourists from Taiwan have been wounded in a terrorist attack at the gate to the Jama Masjid, a historic mosque in New Delhi, India.
Witnesses say two men on a motorcycle drove up and the one riding on the back opened fire on the tourists' bus, firing a total of eight to ten rounds. The terrorists then drove off and have not been caught. Two tourists are currently being treated in a local ...Daily Pampering: Oberoi's take on India
Mar 17th, 2010 at 4:00PM: If you're going to go all the way to India, you need to make the trip worth it. So, don't waste your time thinking about short stays. Oberoi Hotels & Resorts is offering a new deal: "Oberoi Exotic Vacations. From April 16 to September 30, 2010, you'll be able to spend at least eight nights at one of its properties in India and enjoy breakfast for two every day, an additional room for two kids ...Lindsay Lohan rescues child laborers in India...or not
Dec 15th, 2009 at 4:30PM: Looks like miss Lindsay Lohan has gone on a little "liecation" recently.
The actress/singer/celebrity trainwreck posted a message on Twitter that made it sound like she personally took part in a raid that saved child laborers in India while there filming a documentary for the BBC. "Over 40 children saved so far...Within one day's work...This is what life is about...Doing THIS is a life worth ...Pilots and crew brawl at 30,000 feet because of a flight attendant
Oct 5th, 2009 at 6:30PM:
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The wide open skies turned into the Wild West on an Air India flight when the pilots and crew started fist-fighting. The plane was heading to New Delhi from Sharjah, UAE when the altercation that had started before the plane took off heated up.
...Julia Roberts angers villagers in India during a Hindu holiday
Sep 29th, 2009 at 10:30AM: When Julia Roberts and her film crew took over a temple in Pataudi, a small town south of New Delhi, India last week, the locals weren't too happy about it. Perhaps if the timing of the temple's film shoot for "Eat, Pray, Love" had been better planned there wouldn't have been an issue.
Instead, it seems that the folks who scouted out the temple as a location didn't do their homework about when ...Crane falls in India: A thought about geography lessons and missed opportunities
Jul 13th, 2009 at 4:00PM: Tucked into the news this morning, in the midst of seemingly endless Michael Jackson news and the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, was a quick story about cranes falling over in India. The cranes were being used to clean up the debris caused from a flyover that had collapsed.
It wasn't that a flyover had fallen, or that cranes had tipped over that had caught my attention as much ...Talking Travel with Pico Iyer and a book give-away
Mar 16th, 2009 at 11:00AM: When I first read Pico Iyer's book Video Night in Kathmandu, I was hooked. Reading Iyer's words is a trip down streets that you may have traveled before but have not found the words to describe. When you read his prose, the tendency is to say, "Yes, that's it." For places one hasn't been, he draws you into the scenes as if you are there looking at the world through his perceptive eyes.
Seven ...Expect to wait, but not in Japan or Korea
Jan 19th, 2009 at 3:00PM: The worst airport delays in the world, of course, are those that affect you. If I'm stranded at LaGuardia's Marine Air terminal for a short hop to Boston, I really don't care what's going on over at JFK, O'Hare or anywhere else. However, some airports are more likely to inspire your anger than others, so it's a pretty good idea to know which are the worst. If you are headed to India or Europe, it ...Mayhem in Mumbai and why not living in India seems safer
Nov 27th, 2008 at 4:30PM: This time six years ago, I was pregnant and living in New Delhi, India. On one of my journeys to a sonogram appointment, the taxi passed by one of the Indian government buildings where terrorists had attempted an attack that day. The camera crews and reporters were just leaving.
Later at the doctor's office, as I saw a clear image of my son thanks to 3-D technology, the curve of his nose and the ...Amazing Race 13, episode 6: Delhi, India is hard work
Nov 3rd, 2008 at 4:30PM: After a few lovely shots of Bayon Temple the teams were off in The Amazing Race 13, episode 6 to Delhi, India--my old stomping ground.
Although all teams scored the same flight from Siem Reap, Cambodia, the setting of episode 5, once they hit the airport in Delhi, the order in which each team left the temple was irrelevant. Ah, yes, as they dashed through the airport, there were the familar rows ...U.S. State Department travel warnings. Useful or useless?
Oct 10th, 2008 at 9:30AM: How useful are those U.S. State Department travel warnings? If you read too many, you might become scared off of travel all together.
As Carol Pucci points out in a recent Seattle Times article, politics and economics might play into U.S. State Department travel warnings and recommendations. This doesn't mean that, if there is a travel warning for a particular country, you should poo poo it as ...A Circle of Peace: A 9/11 story the year after
Sep 11th, 2008 at 10:40PM: There are moments in life that ververberate like the sound after a Tibetan singing bowl is struck with a mallet. The sound moves outward and outward and outward--hopefully evoking good and centering force in the universe.
Sometimes in travel, there are those experiences where you notice how diverse the crowd is and how well folks are getting along. This is where Louis Amstrong's song "It's a ...Olympics inspired gift idea. Children's art is a big hit
Aug 21st, 2008 at 9:30AM: When Meredith Vieria from the Today Show was given a tour of the Olympic Village, specifically the housing of the Americans, trap shooter bronze medalist Corey Cogdell showed Vieria a painting in her room that was created by a child in China.
A framed picture of a child's artwork was given to each Olympic athlete as a room decoration. It's theirs to keep whether they medal or not.
Vieira was ...New Delhi runway turns into a zoo
Jun 17th, 2008 at 2:00PM: The mix of animals, traffic and people in New Delhi is fascinating any day of the week. When I lived there, pulling up alongside an elephant at a traffic light did happen. Avoiding hitting the cows that meandered at the sides of the roads was a daily venture.
Once, our car grazed a cow just as it twitched its hind end towards traffic. When the side-view mirror was snapped off, my husband ..."Bizarre Foods" on the Travel Channel: Season Finale-- Delhi
Apr 30th, 2008 at 3:00PM:
Location: Delhi, the city with a history that dates back to 1650 A.D. This is where the Mughal Empire once reigned supreme leaving stunning buildings in its wake, and the British tried to recreate into an organized place of roundabouts and more stunning buildings. Common to every part of the city is the sacred cow that wanders throughout. Food truths: milk crosses cultural boundaries, and ...
