As far as the name is concerned you can find a sense of joy & warmth by pronouncing San Antonio !!!!!!!!! The place to party and completely changing yourself to a party animal….. San Antonio is not a place for peace lovers or for a person w... Read More

This is a city where the past is the present, where Gods still linger and monarchs are worshipped , where myths and legends merge to create history , where romance is about wars fought and won, where art is a way of life , where stones speak and the ... Read More

My intention behind writing road-reviews have been to provide necessary information to fellow travelers (read drivers) who wish to undertake that journey. With that thought, probably New Delhi to Patna by road, doesn't make the cut, since not many wo... Read More

For almost two months we were contemplating on visiting Maha Lakshmi Golden Temple at Sripuram near Vellore and finally the plans seemed to materialize during last week of May 2009. My brother-in-law Siva wanted to take his new Swift Dezire to Golden... Read More

This plan all started with a birthday treat.  It was my friend's birthday, and surely we were all happy, hoping that we will surely get a treat.  Every time, it was the same old boring story going in a hotel and just a dinner.  But this time, we w... Read More

It all started with an idea to visit some off-beat destination around Delhi. Google search leads to an image of Bhangarh ruins that claims to be India’s most haunted place. Great! I googled more and it appears to have a potential of a good day trip... Read More

After knowing about this place from my friend Vikas, we planned a trek of Shrikhand Mahadev. Before going there I had totally different views about the place. I had no information about trekking before visiting this place. We were four out of which t... Read More

I will never forget Alberto Giovanni. It was the winter of 1988 and on our way to London to spend a couple of weeks with friends during the Christmas vacation, we planned a short visit at Florence. Florence (Firenze in Italian) is the capital... Read More

Vivek talked about Rameshwaram and Dhanushkodi in his last post and I found that he missed visiting inside Dhanushkodi village. So, my story will start from Dhanushkodi and to your surprise, it will end at Dhanushkodi. We reached Rameshwaram from Ma... Read More

SOMNATH - DWARKA JOURNEY    Here in this post , I will show you some places which definately not many people must have seen for sure. Jay Somnath.......................... 4th January 2011 :- It was a very sad time for me as I was ... Read More

I heard a lot about Kingdom of Dreams Gurgaon. In spite of staying very close to it, I was not able to take out the time to visit the same. On my elder daughter’s Birthday I was on leave. After the Pooja & lunch we decided to visit some wonderf... Read More

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... Read More

Himachal is an interesting place. Isn't it? I would like to post my writings on unexplored Himachal to give a off the road view and a different Himachal to let you all see. Shrikhand Mahadev is one such place. Its hidden. Its unexplored. Not many peo... Read More

An impromptu decision on the eve of a weekend brought us to this place. At the first mention , one would definitely think that this would be in the similar lines of Ramoji Rao film city (Hyderabad) or the likes of it. Well, Innovative Film city (let ... Read More

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. ... Read More

Table of Contents : Part 1 : Kumarkom - Backwaters n Houseboat Part 2 : Munnar - Unspoilt Hill Station It was beginning of April and our next sport was Munnar. From Kumarkom we traveled north till Thiruvankulam and then took right on NH 49 t... Read More

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, a... Read More

On the way to Geneva to visit our daughter who was doing a project there, we planned to include a three day sojourn at London. After visiting the usual tourist places - Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square, “London Eye... Read More

<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"> SETUBANDHE TU RAMESHAM ( 7TH JYOTIRLINGA IN DWADASHA JYOTIRLINGA STROTRAM) Then next day it was time to go to our prime destination Rameswaram for which this trip was planned. We had gone to Kashi i... Read More

Kerala backwater is a bewildering labyrinth of waterways, composed of lagoons, lakes, rivers, rivulets, canals, streams and salty seawater. This complex crisscrossing network of brackish lagoons and lakes lie parallel to the Arabian sea coast of the ... Read More

I love the name of this site as it defines my aspirations. I have been thinking of writing on this site for long but somehow could not and may be the culprit is yet again the same old “starting trouble” and its first cousin “will do it tomorrow... Read More

DRIVING HOLIDAY TO GOA IN JULY - AUGUST 2009. We were driving down to Goa one more time, our fifth holiday in Goa since December 2001. I had booked in Club Mahindra's Varca Beach resort almost two months ahead. We got the booking easily because it... Read More

Todays onward journey to Gopeshwar was going to be a taxing one, as the distance to be covered was more than 110km, with everyone being so tired. We had opted for the Route to Chamoli diverting from Kund via Ukhimath, Chopata, instead of the regula... Read More

Essentially, we had only a day and two nights in the beautiful hilly heartland of North Wales, Snowdonia. Wales is Castle country, North Wales only more so. We had booked our bed and breakfast at Queens Hotel in the shadow of the majestic Harlech... Read More

Hi, what follows is a detailed account of my yatra to the Badrinath and Kedarnath Shrines with a family friend SPV and our families and parents, making it a group of 8 adults and three children- two mine and one SPVs. Hope it will go well as a trip r... Read More