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Travel writing as postcolonial discourse or the postcolonial travelogue has emerged as one of the most original and fecund offshoots in the late-twentieth century. Travel thus means by crossing cultural boundaries, trespassing and visiting. Travel writing has been represented as diabolic by postcolonial critics. V. S. Naipaul is a writer of remarkable expertise through which he transforms his travelling experience into texts, primarily postcolonial texts. His texts are not merely precise records of his physical visits but also a sort of circulation of colonial past of colonial countries. As a novelist he is an international figure and exceptional. He is one of the greatest Caribbean writers of Indian origin, writing in English. As a novelist he is an international figure and exceptional. He is fond of travelling and has been keen observer of the different cultures and geographical situations and chosen it as a best suitable form to satisfy his quest of creative writing. His writing reflects various aspects and any particular culture including social, political, religious and personal belief systems. He travels to different places not with an objective to reach far-off countries but to see life in a new way. Travelogue is a genre of historically realistic fictional work, more than a tourist guide and is certainly more than a graphic record of the places and personal impressions of the sojourner. This paper focused on postcolonial novels of Naipaul to explore his postcolonial experiences of travelling.