Travel Tales from Here and There

A travel blog by Shobha Gopinath … "Travelling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller …" – Ibn Battuta –

South Africa

Sho’t Lefts Around the Western Cape

South-easterly we go This was another epic journey of more than 2100kms, this time, around the Western Cape of South Africa. How l love road trips because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination but the discoveries you make along the way. Back in the Mother City after 4 years.…

February 4, 2019 in South Africa.

An African Beat

The Leopard, the Hyena and the Unfortunate Bushbuck Kruger National Park Sabi Sabi Bush Lodge at last! The overnight flight from Singapore via Johannesburg to Nelspruit was nothing remarkable and my travel companions (my dear friend and her two sons) and I were just glad to have finally reached the lodge to a warm welcome…

July 23, 2015 in South Africa.

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Portraits of Dassanech women

The huts of a Dassanech village are low, dome-shaped structures made by weaving branches that are then covered with animal skins during the rainy season and with straw and leaves during the dry season. In recent times skins and straw have been replaced by zinc that have the advantage of being lasting but have the disadvantage of making it unbearably hot under the relentless heat of the sun. The Dassanech are semi-nomadic and it is the women who maintain the huts and disassemble and reassemble them when they move to a new area.

A village welcome.

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The ancient city of Ayutthaya, Thailand is said to be named after the city of Ayodhya in India, the birthplace of Lord Rama. When the Burmese army invaded Thailand in the 18th century the city was sacked, plundered and completely destroyed. The ruins tell a story of a grand city that was once considered the biggest and wealthiest in the East. Its past splendour is evident in the many iconic remains currently preserved in the city’s historical park, but none more famous than the mysterious Buddha head trapped in the roots of a banyan tree in Wat Mahathat.

Happy Easter everyone.

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