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Wishful Riding (Conquest of the K-Top) 2008-07-10 05:01:58
After the futile effort of sightseeing in Leh due to the bike troubles and all that pushing & pulling, I had decided to crash out and enjoy my drinks in relative comfort of the hotel confines… Well that did not do much of good to me… woke up at 0530 hrs to a splitting headache… [...] Read more:Riding
, Conquest
Wishful Riding - The last Chapter (Manali - Bilaspur - Delhi) 2008-07-28 13:51:00
After loitering in Manali
for a day, gathered my stuff, had breakfast, paid the bill and moved on… Home beckons.
The ride from Manali to Pandoh in itself was beautiful, invigourating and refreshing. Not having to bother too much about timelines today meant that I would be able to enjoy the scenic beauty as often as I [...] Read more:Riding
, Chapter
Venice of East – Kollam/Quilon 2008-07-22 13:08:00
When we started our trip to the backwaters of Kerala, in all the travel books we had read, area around the backwaters was referred to as the “Venice
of the East.” Till we reached Kollam and explored it, we were finding this comparison exaggerated. Our visit to Kollam changed our complete perception about these backwaters.
In [...]
A day at Prayag 2008-07-18 02:48:17
Allahabad was our first night-stop on that great drive to orient which I wrote some time back. For a better period of our planing, we were finding ways on how to reach Gorakhpur by first night, we would flip over the maps one more time, calculate the distances again, try to get updates on East-West [...]
Train journey to Tiruvalla 2008-08-13 00:28:20
I was all excited when Jim called up and invited me for his wedding. 2 reasons.
1. Jim was getting married and
2. it was happening in Kerala, which meant that I had a chance to go to Kerala. I had been planning kerala tour for quite some time, but never happened due to one reason or [...] Read more:Train
The Juggernaut and Older stories-II 2008-08-11 02:41:50
Continued from The Juggernaut and Older stories
We alighted at Puri, full of the excitement and expectations of a new kid entering a new park, and hunger - spiritual and gastronomical. The Sun was strong, breeze kindly. We were relieved to land in a favourable weather. Though landing in trouble was what we narrowly escaped as [...]
The Juggernaut and Older Stories 2008-08-10 14:16:40
Encouraged by the feedback on my Badrinath Kedarnath trip report, here I am with my new offering on the Jagannath Puri. This part is centred mainly around the Jagannath Temple and other places in Puri. Hope you will like this humble effort also. Please also bear with the quality of snaps, all of which are [...] Read more:Stories
Florence - Reminiscence of the Renaissance 2008-08-29 01:34:25
Before you get busy with tongue-twisting title of this post, go back to the fancy first word - Florence.
Nice as it sounds, the city of Florence is a vast and breathtaking monument to the Italian Renaissance
. Firenze in Italian comes from Florentia, the city of flowers. The city has witnessed a string of influences [...]
Meandering through the Brackish Backwaters of Chilika 2008-08-27 14:08:07
Thanks for all the praise showered on the Jagannath Puri Series.
As promised, I am back with the latest in the remainder write ups on Chilika, Konark, Bhubaneswar (Lingaraj Temple, Nadan Kanan Park), Pipli and Dhauli. In the current part, however, I will cover only the Chilika lake.
A postcard from Chilika
About Chilika
As many of us might [...]
Bear Attack - Trip to Rishikesh and Surkanda Devi - 2 (continued…) 2008-08-27 04:37:50
Kaddukhal seemed ideal location since it was on a ridge, and additionally the place was peaceful and away from settlement. We were more than delighted when we stepped out of the bus. We were overlooking into a beautiful valley. On our right side, we could see the way leading up to the [...]
Bastar, Chhattisgarh 2008-09-20 01:22:38
This is account of a trip which I did in July 2007 along with 3 other friends from Hyderabad.
Ever since I and my friends went to Bhadrachalam in Andhra Pradesh for our trip to coastal Andhra, we resolved to come back once to Bhadrachalam and visit Bastar region in state of Chhattisgarh from there. The [...]
Magical Berry Farming in Rajsamand 2008-09-19 00:15:41
We are always on tight schedules when we go to our hometown. Still we have always visited my brother-in-law in Rajsamand. They are perfect hosts and know our weakness very well. Every time we crib about our short visit, they always put forth some wonderful opportunity of visiting an interesting remote place, which we just [...] Read more:Magical
, Berry
, Farming
Wayanad - As green as it can get 2008-09-17 06:23:27
A dream come true. The planning of “Wayanad visit” started way back in 2006 and had been in “planning” stage until recently when the plan was converted to execution :-).
A conversation over the coffee table sparked off a 3-day vacation to the misty hills of Wayanad in God’s Own Country.
Getting there
Kalpetta, the hub of Wayanad [...]
Ross Island– Forgotten citadel of the Emerald Isles 2008-10-07 12:22:11
Ross Island
is located 10 minutes by boat to the east of Aberdeen Jetty, Port Blair and forms a part of the Andaman & Nicobar group of Islands. A visit to the A & N is incomplete without a visit to this Island. A sense of history weighs down upon you as you step up [...] Read more:Forgotten
, Emerald
Panch Kedar Series: Madhmaheswar 2008-10-06 18:00:00
New places make you miss home and you often find yourself in the things-we-used-to-do memory thread. Since I moved to London, my pinings for Gol-Gappas made me try out ready to make golgappas at home and those for Leh and Madhmaheswar made me make an essential trip to india. There are two schools of thoughts [...]
Trip to Switzerland: Part 3 - Jungfrau: Top of Europe 2008-10-06 04:25:33
After the fairly long journey getting to Jungfrau (3 separate trains is no joke), you reach the underground train station (in fact, a large portion of the infrastructure at Jungfrau, is underground - or more accurately, built into the side of the mountain under ice and rock). You get out of the train station, and [...] Read more:Switzerland
, Europe
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