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The Caves of Ajanta and Ellora – India’s Forgotten Wonder

Intricately carved into the hillside in the middle of the Indian countryside in northern Maharastra, the Ajanta and Ellora Caves are some of India’s greatest architectural wonders and a must see for anyone traveling the area around Mumbai. They have both been listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and quite rightly so, especially when the […]

Ready, steady, rickshaw!

The Deccan Odyssey 2014 has kicked off on 14 June, running a length of 1,110km from Panaji to Mumbai. A bunch of adventure enthusiasts are currently riding up South India in a three-wheeled vehicle with the horse power of a lawnmower, not to mentioned during the height of the great Indian summer monsoon. Crazy, adventurous, […]

Hit The Road: India On The Mumbai Xpress

Huffington Post piece on the great Hit The Road: India film. “Every once in a while, a truly fun original documentary comes along. Hit The Road: India is an adventure documentary that follows two friends, Ric Gazarian and Keith King, as they participate in the heretofore unknown Rickshaw Challenge Mumbai Xpress — a 12-day-long, 2000 […]

The Curious, Wonderful and Downright Weird Sites in South India

India is different. If you’ve been there or planning to go there, you’ll find out this fact soon enough. And if riding across South India in a Rickshaw isn’t crazy enough for you then check out these weird sites in the area. Ramanujan Museum, Chennai One of the academic bad boys of Chennai, mathematician Srinivasa […]

7 Reasons to Visit South India

Spicy curries, ancient temples and lively crowds – what makes South India so special when compared with the rest of the Indian sub-continent? South India’s Dravidian culture differs from the Indo-European one in the north, complete with its own architecture, culture and attitude. But South India has more than just cultural incentives to pull the […]

Laish La Rickshaw Adventure in India

An international reality TV show called Laish La, the most watched reality show in the Middle East, doing the Rickshaw Challenge. The show allows the main cast to travel the world and do adrenaline pumping things, it’s like a bucket list they have, and they travel the world trying to strike things off the list. […]

Hit The Roads of India with Rickshaw Challenge

The great Hit The Road: India film is making lots of noise, and the latest is a cool piece in BACKPACK ME “This is no Bollywood. This is no ordinary documentary, even. Hit The Road India, is a a feature travel adventure documentary. It follows the adventure of 2 friends from North America, Richard and […]