DEEPTI
ASTHANA
To travel is to live. I couldn’t agree more.
Doing a full time job and also
maintaining your travel goals seem like
an
impossible thing to do. But we all have
excuses not to travel more when we can
and when we have time. We always
imagine going to offbeat beautiful
places as we read it in the travel magazine
but we keep dreams on the backburner.
Either we are not ready to put our head
into planning or we easily accept that
these places are far from our reach.
yas to wildlife of Karnataka, there
has been a lot on my cards for this year.
And as I write this, in the back of my
mind I am planning a trip To Meghalaya for quenching my thirst of monsoon. The More you travel , the more
you realize how beautiful this world is;
and may be you are losing time sitting
at home or being in your small cubicle.
However, balancing the passion and
everything else is a Key, and that’s what
I am trying to do. Being a travel
photographer, you ensure to do as much
For me travel around the year comes with pre-work as might do and read about
a lot of planning, whether its managing the places and visualize your photos
beforehand. I had a very successful trip
leaves, finding out offbeat places or
to Himachal this year and visited
making my itineraries after lot of
research. Google has all the answers; all beautiful villages of mountains.
you need is to ask right questions. And
there is a lot of information on the blogs The memories of this trip are deeply
engraved in my heart. Whether taking a
that you would feel, there is no place
where you reach first and write about it. selfie under the hoarding that said
‘Hindustan ka akhiri Dhaba’ or
This year I set some new limits for myself tasting the purest water from the
and planned the trips which were out of glaciers of Kinnar Kialash. Hugging the
my comfort zone and mostly solo trips. most beautiful black shining stray dog
From colours of Mathura, to temples of during my morning walks, or chasing a
white wagtail bird in a jungle trail;
Cambodia and from Valleys of Himala