Vincent van Walt's
Travel Journal

The Road to Varanasi

8th February 2018

There is a highway of sorts which leads from Lucknow to Varanasi. It is about 300 km and so straight for the first half that the Romans would have been jealous. They promised us that it would not take...

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Lucknow the hidden gem of India

5th February 2018

Part I - Lucknow by night

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A very organised chaos

4th February 2018

Prabhat Singh is a fountain of knowledge and a scholar of Buddhist Iconography. I had to look up the word; a branch of art history which identifies, describes and interprets images. His information was...

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I cannot remember her name

2nd February 2018

She can't be more than 12 or 13 years old and we can only imagine what her life must really be like and I am ashamed that I can't even remember her name because I bet she can remember mine.

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