Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to a perfect 24 hours in Pushkar. Every day you endure the petty torments of modern life. Traffic. Coworkers who chew gum too loudly. The evil clown who lives in your basement. You know—the usual. As the song says: “Wouldn’t you like to get awaaaaay? Sometimes you …
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Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 hours in Udaipur. Take a look around you right now. Are you gazing at gray cubicle walls? Staring out a window at a cold, rainy day? Admiring your cat’s whiskers? (No judgment—cats are excellent.) But wouldn’t you rather be basking in the glow of some …
Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 hours in Bijaipur, India. If you’ve ever sat down to plan a trip to India and immediately felt your soul leave your body, you’re not alone. India is huge. It contains multitudes. There are deserts and jungles, megacities and tiny villages, palaces that shout and …
Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 hours in Bundi. Let me guess. When you imagined traveling through Rajasthan, you pictured the big names: Jaipur doing the most in pink, Udaipur floating around being romantic, maybe Jodhpur looming dramatically in blue. What you probably didn’t picture was Bundi—a smaller, sleepier city that …
Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 hours in Jaipur. Let me ask you something important. Do you dream of old-school Hollywood glamour? Did you spend your formative years practicing Marilyn Monroe poses in the mirror or attempting to style your hair like Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday—with mixed results and a …
Greetings, Internet Stranger, and welcome to 24 hours in Madhogarh! When you started daydreaming about northern India, I’m guessing your mental vision board looked something like this: the Taj Mahal. The Pink City of Jaipur. The romantic lakes of Udaipur. Very majestic. Very Pinterest. What you probably weren’t dreaming about was spending 24 hours in …