Vassi Koutsaftis’ Top Five Cultural Destinations: India

By Vassi Koutsaftis | March 19, 2014

Vassi Koutsaftis, a legendary guide who has been leading GeoEx tours for 29 years, was just named one of the best guides in the world by Outside magazine. The publication chose him as Best Cultural Guide in its 2014 Travel Awards, announced in the April issue. To celebrate, we asked Vassi to tell us his five favorite cultural destinations. We’re presenting one each day, illustrated with one of his extraordinary photographs.

India

What an incredible country! Every village you visit is like a different world, and there seems to be a celebration of something going on every day—the camel fair, the elephant celebration, the snake festival, the fact that it started raining, the fact that it stopped raining. You could spend a year there and go to a festival somewhere every single day. And then there’s the light and the color and the incredible food – it’s such a multi-layered culture!

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