Safety: Health Mom says: “Make sure you go to your local travel clinic and get your shots. The last thing you want to do is get sick away from home.” Also, make sure you get good health insurance. I had to get the following vaccines, travelling as I am from May to August, during monsoon. [...]
Travel Essentials A Hindi-Urdu phrasebook – if you don’t know the language, I always believe it’s good to make an effort where you can. Flip flops – for bathrooms & buckets. Chain & Padlock – to chain your backpack to stuff. India and Pakistan are extremely safe, but the thing you have to watch out [...]
Learning about India and Pakistan The best way that I feel I’ve prepared for my trip has been reading, hearing, listening to and about the Indian and Pakistani people and cultures. Following is a complete list in its utter incompleteness of starting places for information: On Approaching Learning About and Travelling In India and Pakistan [...]
Emily Silbert BootsnAll Photojournalist Emily Silbert is majoring in Literary Studies and German at the University of Toronto. She’s travelled all over North America, Europe, to Israel and Cuba. She has way too many interests to name, and in flights of imaginative fancy has been an opera singer, an actress, a belly dancer, a writer, [...]
