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Indian Wanderer Raised In Africa

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Indian Wanderer Raised In Africa

I’m Soumya and welcome to my travel website

My name is Soumya Nambiar. I am an entrepreneur and I currently work and live in Bangalore, India. I grew up in Tanzania, Africa. My parents love traveling as well and I have been traveling ever since I can remember. Nowadays I travel with friends, family and sometimes solo too. As someone with an Indian passport, I am constantly traveling to prove that we can do it too. I am a vegetarian and I write frequently about my vegetarian experiences around the world. Travel, Books and Food is a travel blog from India and focuses on my experiences as a solo female Indian wanderer and Vegetarian Foodie.

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  • Today I am asking you for help. It has been a crazy and emotional week for many of us. As many of you already know, my home state of #Kerala has been struck with devastating floods for the past few days. 300+ lives have been lost and millions of people have been displaced following the floods and landslides. No one even knows the extent of loss of animal lives. The situation in #Kodagu in #Karnataka is equally devastating. Even though the rains and the water levels have subsided since Saturday, it will take a long time for things to go back to normal in Kerala and Coorg. People are coming back to broken homes or no homes at all. We are talking about millions of dollars which will be needed to rehabilitate ‘God’s own country ‘. After all, this is considered to be the worst floods that have hit Kerala in a century. So I am asking you to help in whatever ways you can. If you search in Google for ‘Donate money to Kerala’, you will find many options on how you can help. You can contribute to the Chief minister’s relief fund or send items through Amazon or help in whatever way you can. And don’t forget that people in Coorg also need your help. What is reassuring to see is how people from around India and the world have come in droves to help people in need. Humanity does exist and I would ask people to ignore some of the hate that has come in as well in minuscule amounts. A special thank you to everyone who went out of their way to help. It will take Kerala and Kodagu a while to get back on its feet. But once we do, it is important that we don’t repeat our past mistakes of taking nature for granted. Even though this was not the image I had intended to post this week, I found this while scouring among my images. The boats and their fishermen were the real miracles throughout this calamity and we are forever grateful to them. I also ask each one of you ‘To Be The Miracle To The Ones Who Need You Now’. #travelbooksfood #indiaclicks #Keralafloods #Keralaphotos #indiatravel #travelblog #indiantraveller #indiapictures #Kerala🌴 #keralagram
  • So we had a nice time this weekend and during the mini get together, there came a topic about our wildest night. So I am asking you what is your wildest night? I have had a few but there was a crazy night in Madrid and Israel each. A photo from the Dead Sea in Israel. #travelbooksfood #MeetinIsrael #Israel #Jerusalem #clearwater #Sheisnotlost #theglobewanderer #Israeli_moments #Israel_best #igisrael #travel #travelawesome #doyoutravel #letsgoeverywhere #travelblog #indiantraveller #traveldeeper #awesome_photographers #dametraveler #postcardsfromtheworld #beautifuldestinations #travelstoke #travelphotography #worldnomads #nikonphotography
  • Let us talk about Plagiarism today. As content creators, we are always prone to getting our content copied by someone on the internet. Last week I was traveling and by the time I got back, a friend alerted me to an article that seemed really similar to mine. I checked and realised that it was actually copied from 3 of my articles. It is really heartbreaking to see this and I know it will keep happening. Most of it was reworded but they had kept one unique content as is which I had spent hours collating. But if they thought they got away with it, they didn’t. They are relatively newer bloggers and many of the Indian travel bloggers in my circle now know who they are. Not because I told them but because it was so obvious that they copied my content. So they just shot themselves in their foot and I am content that they got exactly what they deserved. 😂 Most bloggers will be wary about working with them in the future. I am definitely not letting it go. But I am really busy right now and I will take action when I have time later. It is a good thing that I have a copyright lawyer as a good friend who is guiding me on what to do. What would you do? A shot from Mallorca in Spain. Continuing the water theme. #travelbooksfood #mallorca #mallorcaisland #balearicislands #clearwater #Sheisnotlost #theglobewanderer #igersmallorca #visitspain #instaspain #travel #travelawesome #doyoutravel #letsgoeverywhere #travelblog #indiantraveller #traveldeeper #awesome_photographers #dametraveler #postcardsfromtheworld #beautifuldestinations #travelstoke #travelphotography #worldnomads #nikonphotography
  • Today I want to know your #travelfail stories. So my sister was in Buffalo for 3 weeks on work. She was scheduled to fly out on Wednesday night. But then her flight from Buffalo to New York got cancelled due to thunderstorms. She then had to reschedule her flight to Friday and this caused her company to shell out a lot of money to reschedule. Finally she flew out on Friday morning. Ended up spending more than 9 hours in New York airport. Her flight from Ny to Frankfurt was delayed which meant that she had only 30 mins in Frankfurt to catch the flight to Bangalore. She made it to the flight since all flights from the east coast were delayed and they waited at Frankfurt for her. She finally got to Bangalore on Sunday morning. But her luggage didn’t. Even though she got a message saying that her luggage has arrived, she has still not received it. Travel is sometimes funny. Do you have any stories like this?
  • This was so peaceful and it definitely helped that I was in such a gorgeous place. What do you do when you are stuck between two different sets of people who are right in their own way? I fell in love with Slovenia this time and I would definitely want to head back here one day. A shot from Lake Bled. #travelbooksfood #slovenia #loveslovenia #igslovenia #clearwater
  • I missed visiting Hallstatt last time I was in Vienna due to lack of time. So I was determined to visit this time. But by the time I got to Salzburg this time, I had high fever and a bad cough. So I ended up doing nothing for the next two days and I ended up being holed up in my hotel room. On my last day, I was determined of not feeling sorry for myself and I ended up taking a bus to Hallstatt. If you take a bus, it is not straight forward and you have to change buses. I did nothing other than strolling around there when I got there. But I ended up making a friend, another solo traveller from Singapore and we ended up spending the rest of the day together.
  • It is difficult to not find anything in Croatia beautiful. But the downside of all this beauty is that it can get extremely crowded during the peak season. But with a little bit of planning and a lot of luck, you can sometimes find all this beauty to enjoy without the crowds. I reached Plitvice lakes only by 4:30pm. I had to choose between the upper lakes and the lower lakes since I knew I couldn’t do both . I finally ended up choosing the upper lakes and I ended up trekking for the next 3 hours. Since most people had left by then, I almost had the whole place to myself except for the occasional hiker. And that definitely was a highlight for me. Yes, that is the colour of the water. I didn’t even have to do edit this picture.
  • So how many of you have been to #Perast? I asked my Travel blogger friends for their favourite Europe day trips and Perast from Kotor in Montenegro is one among them. Go check out the entire list in the link in the bio and my latest post. https://bit.ly/2tLgvpl In my case, I fell in love with Montenegro this time and I am surprised that I didn’t even have this place on my bucket list till very recently. Who can say no to mountains and the Adriatic Sea? A picture from one of the two islets near Perast, Sveti Dorde or the island of St George.