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  • Sri Lanka's Tea Trail | Amar Grover | Sri Lanka | Cultural Triangle | Kandy
    High in the lush hills south of Kandy, a patient factory manager explained to me the venerable business of ‘Orthodox’ and ‘CTC’, of Broken Orange Pekoe, fannings and dust. We discussed plucking and withering, fermentation and drying, while his...
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  • Mali's Festival in the Desert | Amar Grover | Mali | Niger River | Timbuktou
    As the sun fades behind a pale gauze of haze and wind-blown dust, campfires flare and little teapots bubble. Veiled men lounge beside workaday hide tents as women chatter and scold restless children. More groups ride in across rippled dunes on...
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  • Lhasa Portrait | Amar Grover | Tibet | Lhasa Region | Lhasa
    I first visited Lhasa in 1987. Tibet was like some once fabulous but now dusty jewel whose owners wanted to show off preferably to high-yield group tours. The jewel, though, was flawed. Its heritage, not to say citizens, had been battered and...
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  • The Jatbula Trail | Amar Grover | Australia | Northern Territories | Alice Springs
    I ease myself away from the riverbank, climb up through a clump of bushes and hit the trail. Minutes later, I pause and it is as if I’ve already reached the middle of nowhere. There are no human sounds or mechanical hums, just twittering birds and...
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  • Reviews by Amar Grover: Page 4 of 4

    Taj Lake Palace | Amar Grover
    Originally built in 1754 by a Rajput Prince as a royal pleasure retreat, the Taj Lake Palace comprises an island in the middle of hill-cradled Lake Pichola. Opened as a boutique property in 1969, and managed by the Taj group since 1971, it remains...
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