Fond Farewell To Pre-School Nomadism

by Gay Mitra - February 17, 2016October 25, 201613

33 countries under her teeny crocheted belt. Some people think that, for her age, it ain’t nothing but a number. Sure, she can’t remember all the country names (and never correctly pronounced most of them). She can’t remember the tens of airports she passed through (though the memory lingers briefly for she’s got a photographic…

Kenya Tourist Visa On Arrival

by Gay Mitra - May 20, 2015May 20, 20156

Travel warning is still in place. A quick visit to the Kenya travel guide page on Wikitravel will make a traveler postpone or cancel his/her trip, no thanks (or thanks) to that red warning box which greets site visitors hello. Now you may have landed here because you’re one of them unalarmed by the recent…

Buying Anti-Malarials In The Philippines

by Gay Mitra - March 31, 2015March 31, 20154

Today, a month after bidding farewell to the Republic of Kenya, we are finally off the pill. The anti-malaria pill, that is. We can now heave a sigh of relief. We can now say, we are malaria free. And I’m doing me happy, dorky dance right now which you wouldn’t wanna see. About three months…

Breaking The Silence (Or, That East Africa Trip)

by Gay Mitra - March 19, 2015May 20, 20158

At around 7:45 AM Nairobi time, outside Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. “Why are there so many dark brown people here?”, a dozy Luna looked perplexed. After flying from Singapore to India (with a thirteen-hour layover in Mumbai) then to Kenya, she was unbelievably hawk-eyed. She had an inkling that we landed somewhere entirely unfamiliar. This…

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