It is also known as The City of TEA. It is located in northern West Bengal. It lies between 26° 31' and 27° 13' north latitude and between 87° 59' and 88° 53' east longitude. Darjeeling is hemmed in by Sikkim in the north, Nepal in the west and ... Read More

My visits to places are normally more comfortable journeys, maybe I am getting old and don't feel like roughing it out any more :-). So, I planned a 3 day trip to Dharamshala, and the first thing I looked for was how to get there. Not a bus, not a tr... Read More

Its not very common for me to not rush my road-reviews. Yeah thats two nots, read again. Its not very common for me to not rush my road-reviews. But as you grow up (and old) you sort of start to mellow down. In my case I would still blame on office-w... Read More

Read the article from point of view of a person, who loves to travel, is deeply in love with nature and enjoys serenity and solitude. I was soon going to fall in love with the world I was entering! This was a package tour offered by MP tourism ... 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

I had never heard about Dewari Gowada, until Venkat Sunderam, the Chairman of the Lodge Elysium Masonic Charitable Trust, of which I am a member, discussed a proposal to electrify this village. Devari Gowada is located in a remote area of the Aravali... 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

Zurich (“Zu-reich” in German means too rich), the business and cultural capital of Switzerland, lies at the north end of Zurich Lake, in the valley formed by the ridges of Uetliberg on the west and Zurichberg on the east. Extending along both sid... Read More

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) Relativ... Read More

Ever heard of ‘Godliness meter’? They have placed one such thing at the border where the train from Kerala crosses into Tamilnadu. Many Keralites have left for greener pastures over the last century; if the exodus was to the Far East in the begin... Read More

Remember watching a movie in the early 80s ‘The Mighty Himalayan Man’, a fantasy flick about Yeti in the lines of King Kong. This Hong Kong movie greatly impressed my young mind and helped to create an atmosphere of awe about this magnificent, sn... Read More

Since my granddaughter had winter vacations, and my son had also got the week off, we decided to drive up to Mussoorie for the New Year and to spend the last week of the last month of the last year, and the first day of the first month of the new yea... Read More

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 Gurg... Read More

Nestled in the western ghats of the south indian state, Karnataka, is  Kodachadri , a mountain peak (altitude - 1343 m above sea level). The first thought that crosses anyone's mind on mention of Kodachadri is trekking as it is known to be a trekk... 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

I came back just couple of days before and I am still dreaming how those four beautiful days passed in Himachal Pradesh.It had been few months that I had done a road trip. So It was time to hit the road again. But I was really being superstitious whe... Read More

Tehri Garhwal is one of the largest districts of state uttarakhand and which lies from the snow covering Himalayan peaks of Thalaiya Sagar, Jonli and the Gangotri group all the way to the foothills near Rishikesh. New Tehri is newly established to... Read More

Ooty - Pyar ki Booti Remember this phrase from movie "Karz", aka, "1 haseena thi, 1 deewana tha, kya umar thi, kya zamana tha". I heard and saw Ooty first time in Karz and noticed 2nd time in movie Maine Pyar Kiya - "Dil deewana, bin sajna ke, maane... Read More

February 2009 - I'd just quit working and was keen to start off my break with a holiday, even if it meant a just small weekend trip with my husband anywhere away from Delhi. We zeroed in on Lansdowne as neither of us had been there and did not know a... 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

Let me first tell all the readers that I got the motivation to write this after reading through many of the posts at ghummakar. Your stories truely inspired me to pen down this incredible journey which I went through, where one thing led to another a... Read More

Around a month back, I had written an article about the first day of a visit to McLeodganj and Dharamshala. This article is about the second day into the same trip. Given that we had covered McLeodganj on the first day, the objective was to cover the... Read More

Last weekend, I drove to Corbett and I discovered few new things and thought that a quick road review would benefit fellow ghumakkars. Delhi - Ramnagar (Corbett is just a little beyond Ramnagar) can be divided into following stretches. 1. Del... Read More

Many years ago, my wife read about a place called Lahaul-&-Spiti and somehow fancied the idea of going there. When the time came, we actually had no idea on what exactly it was. We knew that its in HP and that its far. After some digging, the fact ab... Read More

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 i... Read More