{"id":12188,"date":"2016-05-18T09:48:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T04:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=12188"},"modified":"2016-05-18T09:48:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T04:18:06","slug":"mid-year-updates-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/mid-year-updates-going.html","title":{"rendered":"Mid-year updates: where have I been & where am I going?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last I wrote about my travel schedules and past trips was in the end of 2015, it’s time for the next update.<\/p>\n

I did not plan for much travel in 2016, but several journeys fell into the schedule anyway. In February, I spent a few days photographing in Mumbai for the first time and subsequently travelled to Kerala to witness Theyyam<\/a> performances and a temple festival. Theyyams and a local elephant festival were in my wishlist for some time, as my last attempt to be at a Theyyam was a bit of disaster<\/a>. A few visits to Varanasi also happened along the way.<\/p>\n

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In mid-April, I spent a week in Rajasthan and enjoyed walking in Jodhpur’s blue city with a local expert–another things that had been in my list for a long time. Despite half-a-dozen visits to Jodhpur in the past, a satisfying visit to the blue-city area was long pending. Subsequently, I spent a day in a small village near Ranakpur, which was an immensely enjoyable experience as travelling in rural Rajasthan usually is.<\/p>\n

\"Rural<\/a><\/p>\n

Later, in the second\u00a0week of May, I made a brief visit to Dubai to conduct a workshop on travel photography at Photography LIVE, and also to present on a few photography related topics at the event.<\/p>\n

\"Travel<\/a>Up next, I am travelling to Malaysia for another photography event next week and am immensely looking forward to it. This would be my first visit to Malaysia.<\/p>\n

As much as I wanted to spend a few extra days in Malay\u00a0with an intent of\u00a0attending a scuba diving course, I have to return immediately to lead a photography tour in Zanskar<\/a> region. And soon after this, another international trip may be in the cards, although I am still contemplating on it.<\/p>\n

Later in the year, I will be busy leading my photography tours to Cambodia<\/a>, Myanmar<\/a>, Varanasi<\/a> and North-East India<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My 2016\u00a0is pretty much sorted out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last I wrote about my travel schedules and past trips was in the end of 2015, it’s time for the next update. I did not plan for much travel in 2016, but several journeys fell into the schedule anyway. In February, I spent a few days photographing in Mumbai for the first time and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[524],"class_list":["post-12188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","tag-meta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-3aA","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12195,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12188\/revisions\/12195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}