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Wishful Riding Part 5 (Keylong to Sarchu) 2008-03-26 02:49:38
A recap of the ride till now:
Started on June 16th from Delhi and rode till Mashobra, written in Wishful Riding
Part 1. Day 2 i.e. 17th June saw me in Sangla (Wishful Riding Part 2) and Day 3 (18th June) saw me in Kaza (Wishful Riding Part 3) and 19th June it was Keylong (Wishful [...]
Côte d’Azur on business mode - Part1 2008-03-26 02:13:27
Before I start, just to clarify that this is not a travel guide but more so my personal travelogue – an account to keep ones sanity. In the last handful of years most of my travels have been work related, the usual dash here and a quickie there, and they have never been as [...]
Satvik Resort, Bhimtal 2008-03-25 13:31:47
I visited The Satvik Resort
, Bhimtal with my family and my in-laws during 29 Sep – 1 Oct 2007. We traveled from Delhi to Rampur through train and from there on we hired a cab. The road from Rampur to Rudrapur is pretty bad – full of potholes especially around Bilaspur. But after that, it [...]
Côte d’Azur on business mode - Part2 2008-03-31 04:33:03
Part 1 is here.The morning sun rays fill the room, up by 0700 hours, views of the sea and a doze of fresh air on the balcony while watering the plants, we are on the street by 0815 hours, It’s a bright morning and as usual at this hour just like any other city the [...]
Flower Fest 2008-03-30 01:26:00
Breathtaking vistas of deep valleys and mountains high enough that they pain the neck when looking up, rivers that run wild and unstoppable in its valleys supported from the melting snow, lakes clear and deep which remain so calm that only the reflections of the snowy mountains can be seen but not its surface [...]
The French Connection 2008-04-03 00:50:11
The KLM flight finally took off as I tiredly lay back for my sojourn to the French
land, for the nth time I mentally checked on the important documents- hotel booking, connecting flights, Eurorail passes & Euros and hoping that the recommendations on tripadvisor.com won’t let us down. The journey till Amsterdam was uneventful, with [...]
By the lanes of Aminabad - Lucknow 2008-04-01 10:38:43
A business trip for two days to the city of ‘Tehzeeb’, as Aditya said in his post on Lucknow, had to have some room for non-business activity, even though the activity is in/around an old and charming business center. I was there to pick some brights lads for my company from IET. It was to [...]
Sawasdee, Thailand! 2008-04-04 03:50:40 Thailand
. The land of sun, sand ‘n sea! No wonder we were all so happy when the conference-cum-leisure getaway to Phuket and Bangkok was announced by the office! The trip was organized as part of the annual conference for our division, and we were all looking forward to an exciting 5-day long party with friends!
DESTINATION [...]
Jogja: Volcanoes & Heritage Sites 2008-04-06 22:07:29
I had the chance to accompany my husband to Indonesia during his official visit in January 2008 and got a rare chance to see an active volcano. We boarded the flight from Delhi and changed at Singapore and reached Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia in the
island of Java. Then we took a domestic flight to [...] Read more:Heritage
, Sites
Weekend @ Yercaud 2008-04-09 05:31:20
Yercaud needs no introduction, but for the benefit of all, here’s a small intro.
Yercaud is a quaint little hill station in the district of Salem in Tamil Nadu.This is often referred to as the “Poor man’s OOTY”. I cannot quite see the logic for this. Yercaud is not as crowded as Ooty, and at the [...] Read more:Weekend
Camping in the Himalayas - Daujidhaar 2008-04-08 07:35:56
Hello People!!!
Last year, I had the oppurtunity to take one of my groups to a campsite in Himachal which is closeby… 377 Kms from Delhi, 17 kms from Shimla, and yet is untouched by the daily clamor of a hustling bustling town next door. The place is called Daujidhaar.
The route:
NH-1 till Zirakpur, NH-22 till Shimla, take [...] Read more:Camping
Baha’i House of Worship – The Lotus Temple 2008-04-11 09:01:48
I came to know about the Baha’i faith just by chance.
In the early seventies, immediately after my initial training at Grindlays Bank (Now Standard Chartered), I was asked to man the foreign exchange desk. Those days the foreign exchange business could only be transacted at banks and hence the desk was mostly busy. On [...] Read more:House
, Lotus
, Temple
Meeting with Monalisa and Mr. Eiffel - Part 1 2008-04-16 10:48:11
Background: I read Da Vinci Code when I was in Switzerland. This book is a piece of art and believe me, I read the last 300 pages in just one night and completed this book in morning around 4:30 am. The aftereffect of reading the book was that I started dreaming about Paris and Louvre. [...] Read more:Monalisa
, Eiffel
Getting lost in Sambhar Lake 2008-04-19 02:51:34
Another business trip, this time my wife’s, another attempt to squeeze some meaningful travel out of it. There was to be a event at Jaipur and she needed to be there to supervise things (aka boss around). I could accompany her and make it worthwhile (for me). So after brooding for a while, the deal [...]
Wishful Riding Part 6 (Sarchu to Leh) 2008-04-21 06:12:34
After tossing and turning the night at Sarchu, awoke to a chirpy mood and that set the tone of the day. Happiness and a blissful feeling awaited at the end of the day, as I would be reaching leh tonite.
With these thoughts, I get ready to ride again. Have been dusty, dirty and have not [...] Read more:Riding
Call of the wild in Thekkady 2008-04-23 06:57:13
Jungle attracts both Jaishree and me. Even during our non-holiday times we hear Jungle calling us. The images of wild terrain float in our eyes. This romance with Jungle and wild life started with our honeymoon in Bandipur. After that this affair is never ending. I was showing photographs of our Bandipur trip to my [...]
The Elephanta Caves 2008-04-22 07:39:39
When I wrote about the boat ride to Elephanta caves, I didn’t know it would take this long to actually get down from the boat and enter the caves. :P
Ah well, I have been traveling for most of the last one month and hence the absence. But I believe in ‘better late than never’. So, [...] Read more:Caves
Cu Chi Tunnels Near Ho Chi Minh City 2008-04-28 01:57:56
The first time I went abroad was in the year 1995 when Kuberan was a consultant to UNDP in Vietnam. It was an experience extraordinaire and I would like to share it with you all in different postings in this site.
Vietnam is a beautiful country. The country is shaped like an ‘S’ curve, almost like [...]
Driving from Lucknow to Nainital and Corbett - Road Review 2008-04-30 00:18:39
My summer trip to Nainital and then to Corbett started from Lucknow, the place where I live. I initially thought of writing all of this in one long story but someone suggested that it might be better to separate stories, it might be easier to read.
So here’s on my first post, I am writing about [...] Read more:Driving
Bannerghatta National Park - Bangalore 2008-05-01 05:18:18
Me and my kids always gets excited whenever we make plans for Bannerghatta National
Park and we have already visited 5 times in last 1 year. Actually this was one of the negotiating attractions for my kids when we are planning to move from Seattle to Bangalore
. While in Seattle, my son always kept asking, [...]
My Summer Trip to Nainital 2008-05-01 03:44:01
We had been talking about going to Nainital for a very long time. A three day holiday just seemed the best time to do it. So we sorta decided on the spot. The Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigams Office in Lucknow (Just behind Hutch house on Shah Najaf Road) was helpful and made the necessary bookings [...] Read more:Summer
In search of Avian Friends 2008-05-02 07:50:50
Besides my near perennial disease of writer’s block, I am also low on time which is holding me back from writing long boring essays and sign off with glee to torture my readers. That said, a couple of photo essays I published in the past seem to have been well received. Allow me to continue, [...] Read more:Friends
Welcome Sister 2008-05-03 06:49:14
Recently I had gone to Goa. It was my first visit to the place but definitely not the last. I need to go there quite frequently to know more & more about that wonderful place. Nice excuse, eh ? ;)
Till my visit there, I knew of Goa as a place of beautiful beaches, churches, Goan [...] Read more:Welcome
Meeting Mr Tiger at Corbett 2008-05-04 10:52:26
Corbett National Park is located just 71 km from Nainital and the drive is just wonderful both for driving and visually. The park is divided into 4 main tourist zones – Dhikala, Bijrani, Jirna and Durgadevi in the order of preference by tourists. Dhikala and Bijrani have perennial water sources and hence the chances of [...]
Bone Church of Kutna Hora 2008-05-06 04:10:39
Last year Jan, we were in Prague (Capital of Czech Republic). On a typical Friday evening when we were making plans on what to do on this weekend (Prague not so big city, all the see-able places are covered pretty soon). There were not many suggestions coming over besides sitting in hotel room drinking beer [...] Read more:Church
Corbett for dummies 2008-05-08 11:56:23
Well, for my last post on this trip. This piece is for those people who are interested in making the trip to Corbett and intends to make life a little bit easier for them. Hope you like it and is as informative as I intended.
As I informed you all earlier, Corbett is divided into 4 main [...]
Down the forest path - Three days in Panna 2008-05-07 12:49:31
My trip to Madhya Pradesh’s Panna
Tiger Reserve began on a bad note. I nearly missed the train (Taj Express from Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin station); the compartment was stinking and the food awful. The resident rats of the train had worked on the carpets diligently (the designs were a little abstract though) and the seat [...] Read more:Three
Going Crazy in Mukteshwar and Nainital 2008-05-09 05:47:38
The trip to Mukteshwar was born out of our strong desire to go somewhere. Anywhere. We started with a plan for Dharamshala, moved to Rafting in Rishikesh, and, at last, zeroed in on Mukteshwar. Main reasons for choosing Mukteshwar were:
1) Relative nearness to Delhi (10 hrs drive in a Qualis)
2) The fact that none of [...] Read more:Going
, Crazy
Doing nothing in Fagu, beyond Shimla 2008-05-12 10:11:00
When we, five members of our family,decided to have a week’s break after the 10th Board exam of our grand daughter,we thought of Shimla
which we have not visited for many years, though we go to hills almost twice a year. The drive to Shimla from Gurgaon became quite easy after we read the very [...] Read more:beyond
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