Serendipity Reinvented A completely new twist to travel from people who ought to know about such things.
Business Today, July, 2005 by R. Sridharan
THE LONELY PLANET GUIDE TO EXPERIMENTAL TRAVEL
By Rachael Antony & Joel Henry
Lonely Planet Publications
PP: 276
Price: Rs 792
When it comes to travellers, the world can roughly be divided into two. One is the variety that prefers the convenience and predictability of guided tours; you sign up for a package and the travel agent takes care of everything else: your sightseeing itinerary, stay, airport transfers, food, etc. The second variety would have none of this. Not for them the sterile world of holiday packages. They would rather travel on their own and rough it out, staying in inexpensive hotels and eating street food. They are the backpackers. Now, courtesy the authors, we learn that there's a loony fringe to the world of travellers, inhabited by...
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