Travel Express with Mastani Musafir

Dear Me and You: Travel is the healthiest addiction…. Travel is to live….. Travel because it is one of the best teachers of yours….. Likewise I come across numbers of quotes and answers when I interact and come across jaunty and jolly folks having similar tastes. Travel means different things to different faces. You know what???? I travel because I consider travel as my perfect therapy. Over the years it has transformed me and has created a different version of ME For some, travel would be an adventure or an opportunity to visit friends and family.   For few, it may be considered as stepping out of comfort zones and embarking on a new journey.     For all the glees and wonders of traveling, there have been number of times I have ended up waking at the first flush of the morning muttering, “Why the hell did I book myself into this God-early flight?”               ...

The hills of the Himalayas in Himachal awe struck me early this year. The towering snow-gilded peaks were grandiosely beautiful, overpowering in their influence and made me surrender to their superiority. I came back as a vanquished skeleton to my mundane and drab world. But in June something different happened during my over a weeklong sojourn at Shillong. They take pride in calling Meghalaya the Scotland of the North East but my experience elevated me to something beyond symbolism. The hills were small and undulating, appeared more human and part of your life. More than enchanting, they drew me into an intimacy, which was not exactly spellbinding but rather an embrace where you feel your own being getting lifted to their abode. The troupes of clouds rolling over the low-lying, curvaceous mountain horizon spread an exhibition of romance under a transparent blue sky that can only be seen in Meghalaya. The mumming sound of the streams, crystal clean in their colour to the botto...