Alex Rahul

Architect by profession.
Wanderer by choice.
Curious about people, places, and the many ways to live a good life.

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It’s fascinating how a line on a map can separate languages, laws, currencies, and cultures…

while the mountains and rivers carry on as if nothing changed.

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Airports might be one of the few places where every emotion in the world exists under one roof.

Reunions.
Goodbyes.
Excitement.
Fear.
Relief.
Hope.

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One thing I almost always do when I travel is visit a local supermarket.

Not because I need anything.

Because if you want to understand a place, look at what people buy on an ordinary Tuesday.

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What’s a place that completely exceeded your expectations?

Not the famous places.

The ones you almost didn’t visit.

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The funny thing about travel is that the moments you remember rarely look important at the time.

A conversation.
A roadside stop.
A view that made you stay a little longer than planned.

That’s usually enough.

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Travel is at its best when it turns spectators into participants.

For a few minutes, nothing else seemed to matter except the view in front of them.

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Travel has a way of recalibrating what feels normal.

A few days ago, seeing a giraffe would have been the highlight of my day.

Today, it’s just part of the scenery.

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What’s the most ordinary thing in your country that visitors find extraordinary?

Travel has taught me that what’s normal to us is often fascinating to someone else.

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Somewhere along the way, I stopped travelling to see places.

I started travelling to understand how differently people live, think, dream, and define a good life.

That’s been far more interesting.

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With the recent promotional emails, are you folks realizing that you're spamming your customers? Ease up, ⁦⁦@IndiGo6E⁩ ! We like you, but we don't like our inbox being flooded.

(PS: My trash only holds emails for 30 days)

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❝Mirror, mirror, show the way,
To where adventure and memories sway❞

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Off to the moon with 1.4 billion dreams
#Chandrayan3

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[BBC Travel @BBC_Travel]

The more than 3,000 menhirs of the Carnac Alignments make up the world's largest group of man-made standing stones. https://t.co/TJhx2nwrUq

[NASA @NASA]

IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth.

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[NASA @NASA]

Better together. International collaboration gave us the most powerful space telescope ever made, and the deepest infrared views of the universe ever seen. With our partners at @ESA and @CSA_ASC, the science can begin. Together we #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/oFA1ja4jeP

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