Category: travel
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Where Art and Nature Converge: Museum Island Hombroich
From time to time we have all been overwhelmed by the number of paintings, sculptures and artifacts juxtaposed in an array of museum rooms – haven’t we? The aggregate of art pieces we are exposed to in a typical museum visit often induce a sense of fatigue, numbing us to the brilliance and allure of…
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A Floral Sutra
A photo walk through a rural, humble, unpretentious open-air flower market in the heart of south India – Madurai. Aural-visual impressions that greet visitors: vendors and buyers haggling over prices in the local language – Tamil, spoken with a strong regional accent. Alleys of flower vendors and weavers seated behind heaps, sacks and baskets filled…
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100th post on Instagram
For my 100th post on Insta – a bit about me – @the_ barefoot_executive. (I hear its good practice to let followers know from time to time, the Instagrammer behind the posts :-)) I started posting regularly on Instagram about 11 months ago. I enjoy sharing my travel tales – not because I love to…
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Bosnia: Battle-Scarred yet Serene
Photos – all mine 🙂
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Self-made postcards (with captions) from us@A
A little bored with pre printed postcards, so I have made my own with captions. Here are some impressions of us@A (Boston to Key West, Florida) You are welcome to order one printed copy of anyone of these postcards – complimentary and with love, UM drop me an email with your address at uma@umamuthuraaman.com …
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7 European countries in 10 days! Plus tips to cope
Many holiday goers look to cover several cities and countries too, in a single holiday. Europe is a great destination to quench such wanderlust, especially for the skimming travelers. (I call them skimming travelers because such visitors expect to touch and go swiftly, have brief local encounters and experiences and then take off for the…