2008 was a good year for travel. Managed trips across S E Asia while i was based in Singapore. To Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, Philippines... and later to Dubai and Bali.
Was in Dubai/Abu Dhabi in Nov '07 and S E Asia for a couple of weeks in May 07- Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
April 07: Visited
Sri Lanka and the beautiful
Maldives. The country experienced some serious flooding soon after we left. Its hard to imagine how they will cope with the effects of Global Warming over the years to come.
March 07: Another trip to the
hills2006: A trip to
Afghanistan, my 3rd, a world bank project.
2005: Shot a tv show about the
Indian Airforce. An incredible experience. Over a month of travel and flying in fancy airplanes and choppers. Flew to Siachen glacier base camp in a chopper, passing low over Khardungla (18,000 feet) and Nubra valley, in -20 cel temperature. The glacier is sometimes refered to as `the worlds highest battlefield'.
Made several trips on assignments to the southern states last summer.
Made a short trip to Singapore/ Kuala Lumpur in March and then to Bangladesh in April for a documentary shoot.
Filmed in Nagapattinam post the Tsunami. Its one of the places where the waves had maximum impact, and thousands were killed.
December '04: Was in Lahore, Pakistan, for a couple of weeks- covering the Champions trophy hockey tournament.
May/June 2004: Africa and Europe. Was away for about two months. Africa was work, Europe was vacation.
In Europe, i spent much of my time in England, but managed short trips to Scotland, Austria and Germany.
Met Richie, Mark and Hanna (richiedisc, acemj and tabatha) in Munich.
Nigeria was my last stop in Africa, and the ten days there were the toughest, as the cumulative exhaustion caught up there.
Also had an incredible trip to
Rwanda. Heard some powerful stories there...
Was in Zanzibar, Pemba and Dar-es-salaam, and then back into Tanzania (to Kilimanjaro and Arusha) Kilimanjaro, as expected, was an incredible sight!
Zanzibar was interesting- a beautiful island, and a curious mix of the troipcal, Mediterranean/ European, African, Arab, and Indian.
Was on an interesting trip to Pakistan in March, we were shooting the SAF games.
Was shooting in Kashmir in march. This time with the Indian army, in the mountains on the Pakistan border. Was good to see the guns silent there for a change.
Also shot a dramatised feature on Mahatma Gandhi's famous Salt march. Details on my Gujarat page.
Sept '03.
Shoot some news features in Afghanistan, on my second trip there. Not quite so much `away' this time. I had a computer with a decent net connection in a room next to mine at the guest house.
Things appeared to have improved a little since my last trip, the signs of destruction and decay seemed to be slowly fading. At least in Kabul.
November '02.
Was in Holland and in Belgium for a short visit. Was shooting a small feature for KLM. Met Johnny_CA in Amsterdam.
October '02.
A trip to Japan. Met j-san in Kyoto and we travelled together to Suzuka to see the last formula1 grandprix of the season! Also visited Tokyo, and met Kat_on_moray
Two days in Bangkok on the way back.
August '02.
Was shooting in Afghanistan. The extent of damage and destruction on view on this, my first trip here was incredible. Even so, Kabul was better than what i was prepared for... the Afghan people are extremely friendly- especially to us Indians it seems.
Was in Kabul, and around, then we flew in to Kandahar to the US military base there.
May '01.
England, on a shoot...
August 2000
England, Scotland, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. On a holiday...
1999.
Nepal. On a shoot
Between 1984-88:
A few trips to Nepal with my family, and one to Pakistan, to visit my aunt.