by Sankara Imports | Aug 20, 2016 | Travel
A pair of friends from Seattle have joined Katey for a portion of her trip! Tammy and Randy flew into Delhi very early in the morning, and are still recovering from the 12.5 hour time change. But, as Katey is a task master, they were up and out in the morning into the...
by Sankara Imports | Aug 18, 2016 | Travel
Katey arrived safely in New Delhi! Her flights were uneventful, and she’s settling into her new time zone, with the help of a LOT of coffee. As today is a holiday, she is catching up with some friends, and finalizing details for later in the trip, so not the...
by Sankara Imports | Mar 8, 2016 | Travel
Francesca and Claudia are getting ready to head back home. It’s been a wonderful adventure. Claudia enjoyed her first time in India. It was a lot like she expected it to be after watching Amazing Race and doing some reading. She found the people to be really...
by Sankara Imports | Mar 6, 2016 | Travel
Francesca and Claudia took a quick flight to Lucknow to visit with Shahana, Sankara’s favorite chikan embroiderer, to see what she has been working on. While in Lucknow, they visited the Bara Imambara, Lucknow’s most well known monument. They had fun going...
by Sankara Imports | Mar 5, 2016 | Travel
Francesca and Claudia were up early again to get a 6 am train to Agra to see the Taj Mahal. Claudia has been waiting to see the Taj since she had a poster hanging on her bedroom wall when she was 12 years old. Getting her first glimpse of it was even better than she...
by Sankara Imports | Mar 1, 2016 | Products, Travel
Today was a mixture of shopping and sightseeing for Francesca and Claudia. They spent the morning doing some work. They visited Sadhna, a local women’s cooperative, where Francesca found a few things she had to bring back to Sankara. Then they went to another...
