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On Jaffna, the Long-Lost Home and the Sweetest Plain Tea at Karaitivu

January 1, 2018

On Jaffna, the Long-Lost Home and the Sweetest Plain Tea at Karaitivu

That one weekend we boarded the train, and went all the way to Jaffna for a mini fam trip.

hope everyone's well and safe 🌺 shifted to a ne

hope everyone's well and safe 🌺 shifted to a new place in the middle of the third wave and back to work because deadlines 😒 also found a vintage belek koppe (how to english it???) from a assorted shop a few months ago and I'm finally having chai in it.

#natnzin x #stayinghome #colombo #srilanka

Wishing you all a happy Sinhala and Tamil new year

Wishing you all a happy Sinhala and Tamil new year, Ugadi/Vishu from Sri Lanka ❤️✨ love, light and happiness 🙏

We recently went for camping in this beautiful pla

We recently went for camping in this beautiful place in the mountains 🌿❤️🤗 Thought of sharing a few pictures.

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Sunsets in Sohra ❤️ #natnzin . . . #sohra #ch

Sunsets in Sohra ❤️

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Life where the clouds come running to you ☁️ M

Life where the clouds come running to you ☁️ Meghalaya means THE ABODE OF CLOUDS. Spend thirty minutes in the land and you can see why ❤️

PS: I've always loved clouds and thought they were where fairies lived when I was a little kid. Now I think they've the shapes of different animals. Like cats, boars, dogs and lions.

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Loved this Assamese thali so much that I rode on t

Loved this Assamese thali so much that I rode on the back of an Uber bike for one hour, from one end of Guwahati to another, just for this one thali. And then went back there the next day.

May 2021 will be the year we have this thali again.

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Trees are fascinating. Aren't they? ✨🙏 #natn

Trees are fascinating. Aren't they? ✨🙏

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Happy New Year everyone 🙏✨❤️ Aiming to pr

Happy New Year everyone 🙏✨❤️ Aiming to practice more silence and less talking this year, both on and off social media 🌿

Photo from Majuli Island in Assam

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Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from both of us 🧡❤️ Love, light and happiness. See you in 2021.

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We had the most amazing one week in the south coas

We had the most amazing one week in the south coast of Sri Lanka recently 🌴🌊 filled with amazing sunsets, great food, empty beaches for ourselves with friendly doggos.

Traveling in the Rona is different. We made sure to:
- stick to only private transport.
- book an apartment for ourselves for the whole stay.
- cook some of our meals.
- dine out in places with plenty of space and outdoor seating.

More posts later. PS: we don't actually use a lot of Instagram now. I, Zin, have my own one for my closet friends and Nathan has his own, and this account will always be up and running, but with a limited number of posts. We are busy with work and are giving more time to real life and less time to online selves.

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Today's morning walk included couples and friends

Today's morning walk included couples and friends fishing by the ocean, tiptoing in the wave-kissed sand, an uncle on his phone, a crimson pink train and bright beautiful sunlight ✨🌻

#Colombo #natnzin

Good morning. Thinking of this village on a platea

Good morning. Thinking of this village on a plateau in @meghtourism today 🌿❤️

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I WROTE A NEW BLOG POST. It's so long and personal

I WROTE A NEW BLOG POST. It's so long and personal. It's about being a traveler, but also about being a nestler, the concept of home, family and happiness.

LINK IN BIO 🌿✨

An excerpt: My relearning of a place happens when I walk through its streets, eat in its many hole-in-the-walls, and drink with its people.

When I relearn, my heart, without me knowing, soaks up the tidbits of a place. And then, even before I know it, I become emotional about the smell of teh tarik in a Malaysian cafe, or the earthy smell of paddy in the Sri lankan countryside. I become emotional about the uncles retreating with the daily Telegraph on a roadside bench in Kolkata. They slowly sip their mud-coloured tea.

I’m emotional about the blue waters of Meghalaya and the misty mountains of Mizoram. I’m emotional about women-run markets in India, where women talk and shout and chatter and laugh. They chop meat and sell clothes and carry baskets full of living chicken on their heads. I’m emotional about the dust that once caked my tangled hair as I slept during a bumpy bus ride through rural Uttar Pradesh.

I relearn [about] places and savour them and love them. So wherever I go, they go with me, their smells, sounds, memories and laughter. They lay in a corner of my heart, treasured.

Zin xx

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Thinking about mountains, today, tomorrow and fore

Thinking about mountains, today, tomorrow and forever 🌿✨

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Fav Indian train food 🧡 aloo puri— fresh, war

Fav Indian train food 🧡 aloo puri— fresh, warm and comes with a green chili 🌿

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Filed a draft about Mizoram recently and these pic

Filed a draft about Mizoram recently and these pictures came to mind 🌿 I'm equally amazed and equally terrified by seeing all my friends traveling in India right now, but also vicariously living through their pictures 🙏

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Turned 26 yesterday, and Nathan did the cutest gar

Turned 26 yesterday, and Nathan did the cutest garden decos with a cutesy newspaper cake ❤️☺️ Super grateful to have the best people in life, here and far 🌻

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It's almost Christmas (I know I know how did it ha

It's almost Christmas (I know I know how did it happen???) So I was in this Ao Naga village last year — alright, Ao Nagas are an ethnic group in Nagaland. But where is Nagaland (always needs an introduction)??? It's in India. Northeast corner of the country. For context, @flipkart has declared that Nagaland is somewhere outside India.

So yes, finally, this was Christmas last year, in this really small Ao village. These villages every year has a feast for the community on Christmas. Usually, a family funds it. So the community gathers at one place and prepares food for the entire village.

The pig 🐖 is a big part of the celebration. But when they came to know that my friend doesn't eat non-halal food, they were so kind enough to cook fish.

Last photo is the lovely fam who had funded this feast 🙏❤️

Until we can travel again//

Zin
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📷: @sahidulislaml
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Missing mountains today 🌿 . . . #natnzin #sril

Missing mountains today 🌿
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Happy Children's Day to the child in us that never

Happy Children's Day to the child in us that never left, thank you for being there to quirk our lives when all else dulls and shatters us; our hearts and minds and souls and bodies.

On a cold, misty day in Idalgashinna, the child in me stopped at a assorted grocery shop for a ice(d) packet, or — a popsicle covered in creamy milk. The real shop owner — a charming furry king in his territory — came and sat beside me, demanding for the milky ice.

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