'Your husband allows you to travel alone?' asked my guide, a well-educated man from Varanasi. 'It's never occurred to me to ask his permission,' I reply | TravellerAU
"Your husband allows you to travel alone?" asked my guide, a well-educated man from Varanasi, on the way to Allahabad in 2013.Fast-forward six years to a village in Nepal, India's equally conservative neighbour, where I'm not only travelling sans male chaperone but am being guided by a Nepalese woman whose own husband and children remain in Kathmandu while she gallivants about the Himalayas. How things have changed.
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