I N D I A

When connections are real, they simply never die. They can be buried, or ignored or walked away from, but never broken. If you've deeply resonated with another person or place, the connection remains despite any distance, time, situation, lack of presence, or circumstance. If you're doubtful then just try it- go and revisit a person or place and see if there's any sense at all of the space between now and then. If it was truly real, you'll be instantly swept back into the moment it was before it left- during the same year and place with the same wonder and hope, comfort and heartbeat. Real connections live on forever.

Victoria Erickson

Loving India so much during my first time there, i was given the opportunity, or more to say, the choice, to come back again one year later. To different places, new experiences, while also meeting my friends. So I decided to go for it, and see if the connections were real, if I liked the place just because it was new and unknown to me before. Not that the connections were more real than anything I felt, but there was a strange feeling of belonging, missing, and returning to places and people close to my heart once again, and for me that was incredible! Adding this to the experience of South India this time and turning into a guide in Delhi and Jaipur for 2 friends who were visiting India for their first time, my 2016 trip lasted for about 4 months and proved to be one of the most challenging, amazing and special experiences - a time of extensive travel, growth, change, resilience, amazing and unexpected friendships and unique memories.

One year later, I met again some of my friends, in other parts of the world this time. Our stories about our time in Karnataka were as vivid as always, bringing back so many memories that are once in a lifetime kind of things…

Each of the following photo brings back a lot of thoughts and memories. Glad i kept a travel journal but i'll let the photos do the talking