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The jungle keeps its secrets well.For centuries, Tikal disappeared beneath rainforest, its temples hidden by trees, vine...
06/07/2026

The jungle keeps its secrets well.

For centuries, Tikal disappeared beneath rainforest, its temples hidden by trees, vines and time itself.

Even today, the first impression is not of archaeology but of wilderness.

Howler monkeys echo through the forest. Birds move unseen through the canopy. The paths wind through dense vegetation until suddenly, almost without warning, stone rises above the trees.

A staircase.

A temple.

A reminder that entire civilisations can vanish and still leave their mark upon the landscape.

What fascinated me most was the scale.

Not the height of the temples, but the ambition behind them. People built cities here centuries before much of the modern world existed.

And then the jungle took them back.

Tikal is one of those places that reminds you how brief we are and how long history can be.

From *Beyond the Border: Guatemala* by Oloi Shorua.

Available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books and Google Play Books.

Question: Which ancient site has left the biggest impression on you?

Some places are remembered for their landscapes.Others are remembered for their colours.Chichicastenango was unlike anyw...
05/07/2026

Some places are remembered for their landscapes.

Others are remembered for their colours.

Chichicastenango was unlike anywhere else I had seen in Central America. The town seemed to come alive on market days as traders, families and visitors filled the streets with textiles, masks, handicrafts and traditions that stretched back centuries.

The market was not created for tourists.

It existed because it always had.

Colours spilled across the plazas. Smoke drifted from incense burners outside old churches. Voices echoed through narrow streets while generations of culture continued to unfold in plain sight.

What fascinated me most was the sense of continuity.

The world outside changed rapidly. Chichicastenango appeared content to move at its own pace.

Travel often introduces us to new places.

Occasionally it introduces us to older ways of seeing the world.

Chichicastenango was one of those places.

From *Beyond the Border: Guatemala* by Oloi Shorua.

Available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books and Google Play Books.

Question: What is the most colourful market you have ever visited?

There are lakes.And then there is Atitlán.Surrounded by volcanoes and small villages scattered along its shoreline, Lake...
04/07/2026

There are lakes.

And then there is Atitlán.

Surrounded by volcanoes and small villages scattered along its shoreline, Lake Atitlán possesses a kind of quiet authority that photographs never fully capture. The water changes colour with the weather. Clouds gather and dissolve around the peaks. Boats cross the lake as they have for generations, connecting communities that feel both close and impossibly distant at the same time.

I arrived expecting scenery.

I found stillness.

The lake seemed to slow everything around it. Conversations lasted longer. Mornings began more gently. Even the mountains appeared content to watch the world without interfering in it.

Travel often encourages movement.

Atitlán encouraged pause.

Perhaps that is why so many people arrive intending to stay a few days and leave wondering whether they should remain a little longer.

Some landscapes are beautiful.

Others become part of you.

Lake Atitlán was one of those places.

From *Beyond the Border: Guatemala* by Oloi Shorua.

Available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books and Google Play Books.

Question: Which lake anywhere in the world has left the strongest impression on you?

Some countries announce themselves immediately.Guatemala did not.It arrived gradually through volcanoes on the horizon, ...
03/07/2026

Some countries announce themselves immediately.

Guatemala did not.

It arrived gradually through volcanoes on the horizon, old colonial streets, distant mountains and the feeling that history remained visible everywhere you looked.

The first impression was not of a destination trying to impress visitors. It was of a country continuing its own story regardless of whether anyone was watching.

Church bells echoed across old plazas. Volcanoes watched silently from the distance. Markets carried colours and traditions that felt far older than modern tourism.

Costa Rica had introduced me to a different rhythm of life.

Guatemala felt like stepping into a deeper layer of Central America altogether.

Some places are beautiful.

Others are unforgettable because they carry the weight of centuries.

Guatemala was one of those places.

From *Beyond the Border: Guatemala* by Oloi Shorua.

Available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books and Google Play Books.

Question: Have you ever visited a country that felt older than its history books?

Some books are planned.Others arrive gradually, one road, one conversation and one memory at a time.*Coffee in the Cloud...
02/07/2026

Some books are planned.

Others arrive gradually, one road, one conversation and one memory at a time.

*Coffee in the Clouds* began with a chance meeting in 1999 and eventually became a journey that stretched across decades, continents and friendships.

It is the story of Costa Rica as I experienced it — from the cloud forests of Monteverde and the volcanic landscapes of Arenal to the quiet roads, cafés, villages and people who transformed a destination into something far more personal.

This is not a guidebook.

It is a memoir about friendship, belonging, memory and the unexpected ways that certain places enter our lives and refuse to leave.

For anyone who has ever fallen in love with a country, returned to a place repeatedly, or discovered that the journey was never really about the destination at all, this book is for you.

*Coffee in the Clouds: A Costa Rica Memoir*

Available now on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books and Google Play Books.

Question: Which country has left the deepest mark on your life?

The first thing you notice in a cloud forest is not what you can see.It is what you cannot.Trees emerge from mist and di...
01/07/2026

The first thing you notice in a cloud forest is not what you can see.

It is what you cannot.

Trees emerge from mist and disappear again. Trails vanish around corners. Sound travels strangely through the forest, sometimes close, sometimes distant, as if the landscape itself is deciding what to reveal.

The Monteverde Cloud Forest was unlike any place I had visited before.

The air felt cooler. Softer. Alive with moisture. Moss covered branches. Orchids clung to trees. Clouds drifted through the forest itself rather than above it.

For a traveller accustomed to open African landscapes and distant horizons, Monteverde felt almost secretive. Nothing announced itself. The forest asked for patience.

And the longer I stayed, the more I understood why people return.

Some places are visited.

Others are experienced.

From *Coffee in the Clouds: A Costa Rica Memoir* by Oloi Shorua.

Available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books and Google Play Books.

Question: Do you prefer vast open landscapes or forests that keep their secrets?

Some restaurants feed you.Others quietly become part of your life.Tramonti sat high in the hills of Monteverde, surround...
30/06/2026

Some restaurants feed you.

Others quietly become part of your life.

Tramonti sat high in the hills of Monteverde, surrounded by cloud forest and mountain air, its warm lights glowing against the mist that so often settled over the town after sunset.

The restaurant belonged to an Italian family who had travelled far from home and somehow found another one in Costa Rica. Over the years I returned often enough that the meals began to matter less than the people behind them.

Gianni. Adriana. Ximena. Andrea.

The names became as familiar as the menu itself.

Pizza from the wood-fired oven. Long conversations. Evenings that stretched comfortably into night while clouds drifted past the windows outside.

Travel often begins with places.

It is usually people who make us return.

Years later, when I think of Monteverde, I remember the forests, the mountains and the mist. But I also remember a family from Italy who built a restaurant in the clouds and made strangers feel like old friends.

From *Coffee in the Clouds: A Costa Rica Memoir* by Oloi Shorua.

Available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books and Google Play Books.

Question: Is there a restaurant anywhere in the world that keeps drawing you back?

There are places that feel discovered.And there are places that feel remembered.Monteverde sat high in the Costa Rican m...
29/06/2026

There are places that feel discovered.

And there are places that feel remembered.

Monteverde sat high in the Costa Rican mountains, suspended somewhere between cloud and forest. The road climbed steadily upward through farms, valleys and changing weather until the landscape itself began to disappear into mist.

Cloud forests are difficult to explain to anyone who has never stood inside one. The air feels different. Sound travels differently. Trees emerge and disappear without warning. Distances become uncertain. The entire forest seems to exist between presence and absence.

I arrived expecting scenery.

I found atmosphere.

Years later, when I think of Costa Rica, it is often Monteverde that returns first. Not a particular building or viewpoint, but the feeling of standing among drifting clouds while the forest breathed quietly around me.

Some places impress.

Others stay.

From *Coffee in the Clouds: A Costa Rica Memoir* by Oloi Shorua.

Available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books and Google Play Books.

Question: Which destination has stayed with you long after you left?

Every country has an arrival.Not the airport. Not immigration. Not the baggage carousel.The real arrival comes later, in...
28/06/2026

Every country has an arrival.

Not the airport. Not immigration. Not the baggage carousel.

The real arrival comes later, in that quiet moment when the landscape finally introduces itself.

For me, Costa Rica arrived through green.

Not ordinary green, but every possible shade of it. Mountains covered in forest. Hills disappearing into cloud. Valleys layered one behind another until distance itself seemed painted in different colours.

After years of hearing stories, after decades of waiting, the country was finally there beyond the window.

Real.

The roads wound through coffee farms and villages hidden among the hills. Clouds drifted across the mountains as if they belonged there permanently. Everything felt softer, slower and somehow more alive than I had imagined.

I remember looking out across the landscape and thinking that some places justify the wait.

Costa Rica was one of them.

From *Coffee in the Clouds: A Costa Rica Memoir* by Oloi Shorua.

Available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books and Google Play Books.

Question: Which country exceeded your expectations the moment you first saw it?














For more than twenty years, Costa Rica existed only as stories.Stories told by a friend. Stories about mountains hidden ...
27/06/2026

For more than twenty years, Costa Rica existed only as stories.

Stories told by a friend. Stories about mountains hidden in cloud, coffee farms, volcanoes, forests and a way of life that seemed impossibly distant from my own.

Life moved on. Businesses, responsibilities, successes, failures, relationships and continents all intervened.

Yet the invitation remained somewhere in the background.

Then one day, after more than two decades, I finally booked the ticket.

The journey from India to Costa Rica is not a short one. It requires commitment. Flights, connections, oceans and time zones. But some destinations become larger than geography. They become unfinished conversations.

As the aircraft crossed oceans and continents, I realised I was not travelling somewhere new.

I was travelling toward a story that had been waiting for me since 1999.

Some journeys begin when you board the plane.

Others begin years before.

From *Coffee in the Clouds: A Costa Rica Memoir* by Oloi Shorua.

Available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books and Google Play Books.

Question: What is the longest time you've waited to visit a place you always dreamed about?











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