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The turbans and saris in India totally captivated me. We traveled in the Northern part of India for two weeks in November and while I loved the palaces, forts and exotic nature of this part of the world, the way the women and men dressed was absolutely mesmerizing. My back ground as a fashion...
If you’ve been following DesignDestinations, you know we toured the Northern Plains of India on an Abercrombie and Kent trip recently. The tour was packed with “old buildings.” Seems like every day we visited a palace, a fort or a temple–sometimes a series of them. Interesting. I...
Riding an elephant is an unbelievably “jerky” experience. I was really surprised although I don’t know why, that every ponderous step caused me to sway from side to side, some times with considerable impact. It was fun though. We were at a resort in Rajasthan, India where the...
I’ve been in a lot of traffic snarls in my life but never one caused by a herd of camels. This happened to me recently in Rajasthan, India. It wasn’t on a remote country road either. It was on a major roadway through the area where beautiful white marble is mined. Camels, cows,...
I thought I’d be ending my life when I took a 45 minute rick shaw ride from somewhere in the middle of Varanasi, also known as the City of Light, to the Ganges River. What appeared to me to be certain death is an every day occurrence to the residents of this thriving and […]
“The world is divided into two kinds of people–those who have seen the Taj Mahal and those who have not.” Mark Twain said something like that and I have to believe there is a degree of truth in his statement. “The Taj,” as they call it around Agra, is absolutely magnificent and a...
I’m sitting on a plane heading from Delhi to Varanasi, India. It’s actually almost a zen experience after the sights and sounds assaulting us for two days in Delhi. Talk about sensory overload. The guide books all talk about the visual explosion, constant cacophony, mysterious smells and...
Color exploded last week at the Sari Fashion Show and Rangoli demonstration at theSaugatuck Center for the Arts. The program was part of a month long Cultural Festival of India sponsored by this lively organization located on the western coast of Michigan. Last year they featured Japan and...