The Swahili word “safari” means trip.
In our lifetimes, we all embark on multiple safaris — trips that are sometimes real and other times, imaginary or metaphorical. What better way is there to keep tabs on our daily journeys (to places known and unknown) than through the written word? Join us on a daily literary safari as we travel and discover the world through books, art, movies, music, family, and more.Featured Stories
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Travel Archive
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All Abroad with a Baby
Posted on November 22, 2010 | 7 CommentsLessons from 65 hours of travel, including a non-stop flight India trip and a summer holiday to Norway. -
Q&A with Minal Hajratwala, author of Leaving India
Posted on July 16, 2009 | No CommentsThis interview was originally published at Sepia Mutiny. As someone whose own family is dispersed over several continents (my husband often jokes that we can’t visit any new country without... -
A Perfect Artist Date: Books, Maps, and Ice-Cream
Posted on July 14, 2009 | 3 CommentsIn her book The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron prescribes the “artist date” as an essential building block of the creative life. She describes it as: a block of time, perhaps... -
Hooked
Posted on April 12, 2009 | 1 CommentJessica Craig-Martin/Greenberg Van Doren Gallery (NYT) This picture in today’s New York Times magazine (“The Way We Live Now”) made me smile. These uppity lunching ladies really need to make... -
Off Season in Cadaques
Posted on March 31, 2009 | 1 CommentDali spent his summers here as a child and bought a home in this small, Mediterranean village in Catalonia’s Costa Brava. He lived here with his wife until the 1990s.... -
A Little Bit of Thoreau By My Side These Last Days of Summer …
Posted on September 3, 2008 | 6 CommentsWe stopped by at Walden Pond on the way to Maine this past weekend. Though I’ve read Walden; or, Life in the Woods many more times than I can remember,... -
Desi Spotting in Brazil
Posted on July 16, 2008 | 4 CommentsThis was originally posted at Sepia Mutiny. When I travel to a new country, my eyes are always peeled for a desi sighting. My recent trip to Brazil was no... -
Running in Rio
Posted on June 29, 2008 | No CommentsOur friend Luis ran in the Rio de Janeiro Marathon today. Early in the morning, we walked the half block over to Ipanema beach where an entire lane of Avenida... -
What’s in a Goiaba? That which we call a guava by any other name …
Posted on June 28, 2008 | 3 CommentsGuavas are believed to have originated in Mexico or Brazil. They’re one of my favorite fruits and here in Brazil, goiaba is mixed into everything–drinks, ice-creams, cakes, and breads. When... -
Summer Holiday
Posted on June 26, 2008 | No CommentsI didn’t grow up watching a lot of “in” Disney movies like Bambi. Instead, on weekends, my aunt who my sister and I were staying with in Pune, would rent... -
17th Century Travel Tips … for the 21st Century Reader
Posted on May 30, 2008 | No CommentsI was walking along the river near 96th Street this week when I saw a woman relaxing on a lawn chair in the middle of an overgrown little patch of... -
Inhale to visit a “Garden After the Monsoon”
Posted on May 21, 2008 | No CommentsIs it really possible to bottle the scent of a place? The House of Hermès is trying to do just that — capture the scents of the southern Indian state...