Thursday, February 28, 2008

Famous Travel Quotes


The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.St. Augustine


...travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.Miriam Beard


The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight seeing".Daniel J. Boorstin
There is no happiness for the person who does not travel. For Indra is the friend of the traveler, therefore wander!Brähmann
I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost eveything.Bill Bryson
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.Sir Richard Burton
Embrace the detours.Kevin Charbonneau
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.Gilbert K. Chesterton
The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and goes on his way.Colette
Travellers never think that they are the foreigners.Mason Cooley
The journey not the arrival matters.T. S. Eliot

Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.Frank Herbert

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.Aldous Huxley

The wise man travels to discover himself.James Russell Lowell
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore ... unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible ... it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors ... to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.Ferdinand Magellan
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!Fitzhugh Mllan
Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.Prophet Mohammed
Take only memories, leave only footprints.Chief Seattle
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.George Bernard Shaw
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. the great affair is to move.Robert Louis Stevenson
He who would travel happily must travel light.Antoine de St. Exupery


I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.Explore. Dream. Discover.Mark Twain
A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.Lao Tzu
Paradise is where I am.Voltaire
A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.Lin Yutang

Friday, February 22, 2008

Kailash Yatra



Mount Kailash is one of the world’s most sacred spots. To experience its spiritual energy you must go there but with the right intention in mind. This is a pilgrimage and the intent should be to visit it for peace, both within each person and then the world. Tibetans leave an article of clothing or a drop of blood, hair or a stone to symbolize leaving their prejudices behind them. One should leave their ego, anxiety and meanness here.

Before setting of for this journey ,check out some of the unbiased travellers reviews of how to go on this ultimate pilgrimage which promises to be a adventure too .

1.Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar YatraTrip Advice & Travelogue by Unnimaya

2.My experience--Kailash-Manasarovar Yatra By Meghna Bhagat

3.Journey To the Himalayas

TravelPort has been organising the Kailash yatra for last 8 years and has served more than 1000 yatris .We have a track record of minimal complaints on such a tough journey .