What are the three prime locations that you just need to go to? I’ve been requested this query umpteen variety of occasions. My often reply ‘Each place I’ve not visited is on my wishlist’. I imply it. I’m inquisitive about each place that I’m but to go to. And I do know I can’t see the entire world. However the enjoyable is in trying to see as a lot as potential. This time, when an interviewer once more despatched me the identical query, I assumed I ought to put an finish to it – write a publish on it and level all future inquiries to this publish.
Prime locations on my should journey checklist
So right here is my prioritized checklist of prime locations I need to go to. At the price of repeating myself, I need to say that ‘In every single place’ is what my bucket checklist actually is.
India
I’m a self-proclaimed Indophile. I can discover India for the remainder of my life. And I really like studying about India. I’ve lived in 10 states of India and visited rather more. This journey weblog tries to give attention to the lesser-known elements of India, the multi-faceted elements of its cities by way of numerous strolling excursions. Actually, I’m scripting this from the jungles of North Bengal the place I’m touring for the time being.
India is a layered nation, a rustic that I do know finest however but on each step, it amazes me, surprises me and makes me fall in love with it yet again. So, India is and can at all times stay there on prime of my checklist. Don’t ask me which a part of India. I like all elements of it – every for a distinct cause. India will at all times be on prime of my checklist of prime locations – visited or but to be visited.
Greece
The house of historical philosophers and the traditional civilization of Greece fascinate me. Its structure intrigues me. I do know it has a wealth of islands which might be extraordinarily widespread. However I need to see Athens the place the primary Olympics had been performed. I need to see these historical buildings that grew to become the mannequin for a lot of different civilizations. I did see a glimpse of Greek structure once I visited Sanchi or the Greek Theatres that I noticed in Amman Jordan. They solely made me extra curious.
Indonesia
Just lately I found the traditional cultural roots of India in Thailand once I did the Ratchaprasong stroll within the coronary heart of Bangkok. Then Benoy Okay Behl wrote about Indian tradition in Japan. This made me inquisitive about exploring the elements of the world that had deep cultural connections with India. Indonesia with its Hindu tradition has been intriguing to me. I’ve additionally been taking a look at photos of Hindu temples there and I can’t wait to see them.
Egypt
I’ve seen a Mummy in Giu, and one other in a museum in Hyderabad, so I’m not that inquisitive about Mummies. Pyramids although proceed to intrigue. I’ve seen thousands and thousands of images of pyramids and watched many movies. Am positive none of them give me the sensation that you just get solely if you stand subsequent to a construction the place folks lived millenniums in the past. Locations which have thriller wrapped throughout them tickle a sure a part of your mind. And it’s essential to see the place your self to eliminate that itch.
Cambodia
Angkor Wat and different temples are my sole cause for craving to go to Cambodia. I’ve been learning temple structure in India – be it terracotta temples of Bishnupur, Chola temples of Thanjavur or Nagar types temples of Khajuraho. All of them have such a beautiful amalgamation of artwork, science, and aesthetics that you just marvel the place we misplaced all this within the identify of improvement. I need to learn the tales written in stone, perceive the iconography and go to an unknown chapter from the previous in Cambodia.
Guatemala
Once I briefly lived in Houston, on considered one of my visits to San Antonio, I noticed a movie in regards to the historical Mayan civilization that occurred in Guatemala. Since then, I’ve wished to go to this historical nation. I do know it might be nothing like its previous self, however then previous has a method of leaving it traces for the long run generations. I’m positive they might be there in Guatemala.
Other than this my different dream locations to go to embrace Italy – for all its beautiful structure, Spain – for its historical cave work, Japan – to go to all of the Saraswati shrines, China – to do a little bit of reverse Huan Tsang. The checklist goes on…
Inform me what are your favourite locations to go to?
