After coming back “enlightened” from my first long trip to the Indian Subcontinent and South East Asia, I decided to bring the “Far East” to everyone – online. It was back in 1997, when the WEB only started to develop, when I built the first Hebrew site for travel advise. The site, “Libi Bamizrah” (Literally “My heart is in the east” – a spin-off of a poem title by the Hebrew poet Rabi Yehuda Halevi), is a step-by-step guide to people who plan a trip to the Indian Subcontinent and South East Asia.
Since 1997, many other travel related sites were founded, but “Libi Bamizrah” still draws thousands of visitors every month. The site is maintained for no reward but a spiritual one. Understanding travelers’ needs for information prior to a trip was one of the triggers for writing the “India and Nepal” travel guidebook.