It was always on my wishlist to visit a place which had snowfall, beautiful lakes and nice dense forests. I used to wonder if any one place had a mix of all this! I was surprised pleasantly to find this great combo on our trip to the North-eastern part of India covering Kolkata, Sikkim and Darjeeling!
We chose the best time - Autumn, to visit this spectacular place. Our journey started from Bangalore, reached kolkata the same day (through flight) , stayed over night at Kolkata.
I was simply thrilled to see the people there!!Each one had a similar looking face- square jaw-lines and small fish-like eyes- so typical of the people in North-east! It was an amazing welcome at the airport by our tour guide who led us to a hotel near Howrah bridge.
It was about 11 in the night and we headed out to by the famous Rosagulla at K.C Das. It was truly amazing to eat a tin full of it at that hour- we just dint wanna miss Kolkata’s delicacy. Read the rest of this entry →
UTTRAKHAND became the 27th state of India in Nov.2000.The provisional capital of Uttrakhand is Dehradun. It is also known as Dev Bhumi (Land of God) because of multiple Hindu Pilgrimages.
Uttrakhand is divided into two parts, the western part is known as Garhwal & Eastern part is Kumaon.
Char Dham of Garhwal – Badrinath , Kedarnath , Gangotri & Yamontri form the the Char Dham.
Last year during the Nav Ratras we planned to go to Chandrabadni Mandir in Tehri Garwhal. We followed the route Gurgaon –Delhi – Ghaziabad –Meerut – Muzzafar Nagar – Rorkee – Haridwar-Rishikesh- Devprayag , Hindola khal-Jamni khal – Nekhari –Jurana -Chandrabadni .
Me and two of my friends cum colleagues wanted to go for a small family week end trip with the objective of pure chilling out. I was always in favour of self driving rather than taking the pain of planning ahead and booking railway tickets. Initially we were looking for places near to Shimla like Chail or Shogi. But the driving time was coming a bit too much and we were trying to avoid a hectic journey. While searching on the net I came across the Ghumakkar family and was instantly impressed by the quality of the travelogues posted here. Also I found the place called Lansdowne. I never realized this is the closest hill station to Delhi/NCR. I did some quick reading and decided to give it a try. My friends agreed and just to make an initial check we called up Fairydale resort and found out that only three 4 beds rooms were available. Personal and office work took priority and firming up the actual travel dates got delayed. Finally we decided on 19th June and called up Fairydale again but we were told that all the rooms were sold out. A quick discussion took place and frantic calls were place to Oak Grove Inn and Anand Retreat. We got prompt reply from Col Rawat of Oak Grove Inn but Anand Reterat was a bit reluctant. So we put our faith on Col. Rawat and booked for three families.
I was out with the thought of getting on one of those short and lazy holidays. But beaches have something enigmatic about them. They mesmerize me and that panorama inspires in me all the energy that the city depilates. It happened this time too… If u have liked Kerala you’ll love Port Blair….This place is the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands, a union territory of India. As soon as you step on the Veer Sarvarkar Airport you can feel the freshness in the air. The city greets you with its pure and invigorating air. Even the sun light felt so fresh.
