Designed especially for first time visitors to India, we will help you see India, your way – your style, your dates, and your budget.Įlizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, is returning to India Eat, Pray, Love and India So, while I can’t say Eat, Pray, Love influenced me directly, I do owe author Elizabeth Gilbert a debt of gratitude for giving voice to a discontent and a yearning that I know well for tapping into the zeitgeist and finding an audience and for helping to give me the confidence to write about my journeys.ĭo you feel called to India … but also daunted, and don’t know where to start? That’s why we created the India for Beginners custom tours. It also took a lot of courage – I felt like I was jumping into the abyss. Travelling to India in 2005 was one of the most important and impactful decisions of my life. In my case, I recovered from depression, found a new life in India, and a new career as a travel writer and blogger.
Like Elizabeth Gilbert, I felt my trip to be transformative. I had no idea what would happen to me during those six months in India. I planned and saved money for a year, put everything in storage, gave up my apartment, left my cat with a friend and, on December 5, 2005, flew to Delhi. When I started to feel the pull to go to India in 2004 (the year Liz Gilbert was in India), I was in a Yoga Teacher Training program in Toronto, trying to recover from grief and depression over many personal losses.
India always changes people, and I have been no exception.” – Ruth Prawer-Jhabvala And for another, I was a seeker, in need of a new start in life – and India is the world’s top destination for spiritual seekers.īut since I launched Breathedreamgo 10 years ago (on August 23, 2009), many people have commented on the similarities between our journeys, and they assume I travelled to India because of the book. I felt compelled to travel to India for many reasons – I had dreamed of visiting India since childhood, for one. On my first trip to India in 2006, sunset from Nahagarh (Tiger) Fort, Jaipur Eat, Pray, Love and BreathedreamgoĮat, Pray Love didn’t exactly influence me directly as I was already in India, on my first six-month transformative journey in 2005-2006 when the book was published. Interested in travelling to India for Yoga? Please read my Complete Guide to Yoga in India and What life is like in a Yoga Ashram in India to have all of your questions answered. I don’t think the Indian tourism industry in general knows about the book, or the impact it’s had on millions of women, but ultimately India will benefit from the publicity that her visit generates. This is exciting news for me because I am a fan, because my journey parallels hers in uncanny ways, and because I think it will be good for tourism to India.
Me meeting Elizabeth Gilbert at the Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2020. And if you do go to Italy, read The 15 Best street food in Italy . TIP: If you plan to visit Bali, check out this post about Best Offbeat Places to Visit in Bali to experience authentic culture. I was lucky enough to hear her speak and meet her at the Jaipur Literature Festival, and as always she inspired me with her words - which were largely about the liberation of women. She has documented her travels on her Instagram page and seems to be thoroughly enjoying herself. Time Magazine named Gilbert one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008.Įlizabeth (Liz) Gilbert returned to India in 2020, for the first time since publishing the book, to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival, the UtsavaMaa Festival and to travel. But it was in India that she learned to Pray, while at an ashram.Įat, Pray, Love – a book about Elizabeth Gilbert’s quest to find “everything” – was published in 2005 and went on to become an international bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide. She also went to Italy (Eat) and Bali (Love).
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, returns to visit India.
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