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FIRSTWORDS
isten up, aspiring bloggers.
Pay attention, wordsmiths and world-travel
dreamers. You are going to meet some seriously
successful travel people between these pages.
Writers, photographers, bloggers who trot the
globe for a living.
We present to you Dr. Paul Johnson, whose
Luxury Travel Blog gets more than 200,000
hits a month. Meet Duncan Rhodes of the Urban
Travel Blog with his band of talented writers
and devoted followers. Say Hi to India’s comely
Charukesi Ramadurai, the go-getter girl with
Itchy Feet. We coaxed them to tell us how they
rose to the top. Go ahead, take a leaf out of their
bestselling books, or rather, blogs!
Lights,
Camera...
Interaction!
I love to hear fresh voices and new ideas. So
imagine my joy when Juliet Philip, gifted doodler
and author of The Runaway Daughter, popped
into our mailbox and inquired if she could take
us to the narrowest house in America. And our
London Correspondent Shozeb Haider sent
across his brilliant piece from the Cameron
Highlands in Malaysia. Four food bloggers from
South India cheerfully shared snapshots of their
curry-scented thaalis. And in-house, our energetic
(and ever-hungry!) team of interns, sussed out
secrets of Delhi’s street eats.
Feel the adrenaline charging through your veins?
Take a good gaze at the winter wonderlands we
have laid out for you. There’s still ample time: ride
into Christmas on a dogsled in Bled. Or usher in
2016 amid the gleaming glaciers of Lake Baikal. If
nothing else, ditch the been-there hill stations and
get your snowflake fix at Uttarakhand’s pristine
beauty, Chopta.
Safe travels, and happy times!
Shubhra Krishan, Publisher & Editor
September-October 2015 Travel Secrets 9