Hey all! For over five thousand years, henna has served as a symbol of good luck, health, and everlasting friendship.  At the simplest, Henna is a paste made out of crushed leaves and twigs of henna plant. The paste can also be made from dried leaves of the plant by mixing it with hot water. When this paste is applied in skin (just like writing from a marker) and left for few hours, it leaves orange to dark maroon stain in the skin which fades away in 7 to 14 days.

Some of us Chartered Travellers was very lucky enough to experience this Indian tradition this past weekend and was able to get our own henna tattoos! Be sure to note the exquisite design (called mehndi). Our professional mehndi artist had told us that this design is a sybolistic of a feline cat… can you see it??

All for now,
CT