Browsing Category : North America

Havana: Music, Mystique and More


The snug lanes of the Old Town (Havana Vieja) called for a slowdown. The cabbie sounded the horn, and the crowd that had been gawking at the crumbling exteriors of a period structure dispersed hastily to make way. These derelict buildings, once brightly-coloured, line both sides of the street. The unhurried taxi ride facilitated a closer look at them. Most…

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Joshua Tree National Park

Beyond the Obvious in Los Angeles


I’m not sure LA really gets its due. When I told friends I was off to the Californian city for some ‘me-time’, many couldn’t see the point of a trans-continental journey ‘just to take a few cheesy photographs in front of the Hollywood sign’. I had no dearth of reasons though. For one, it was five years since my last…

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