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The state of Rajasthan is a blend of the traditional and the modern, with somewhere a medieval ambience still lingering on. The heritage monuments and traditional costumes rub shoulders with modern infrastructure and luxuries. Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan is known as ‘The... Read More

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Ranthambore seemed far, three years back. After our attempt at Delhi-Jaisalmer in end-2007 followed by Delhi-Allahabad in mid-2008 and finally polishing 2008 by Delhi-Khajuraho (till Jhansi and then to Khajuraho), it didn't seem that far. "Ab dilli d... Read More
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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
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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
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Background: This plan also came into existence during discussions with Nandan. We met one evening after his road trip to his native place (Delhi - Patna - Delhi) and were discussing longer trips when the idea of Delhi-Goa came up. Nothing much was ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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It was a long drive and we were dreading that it would get very grumpy in the end. Like my other road reviews, where more moments were spent (on the review) trying to understand the in-between places and peculiarities, here I am spending few more pen... Read More
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We had a three day long weekend coming up in September,2009 and wanted to drive down to someplace close to Delhi in a radius of 200 kms. After a lot of searching on the internet and asking around, we zeroed in on the Bharatpur Bird sanctuary. The nex... Read More
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“God gave man this earth and man made wonders of it”…The first shower of monsoons, after the parched long summers, heralded for us the journey to the land of deserts- Rajasthan. As planned we drove 122 kms. on the Delhi-Jaipur highway to the ma... Read More
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After a long planning and endless discussions, our much awaited journey to Rajasthan finally started on November the 14th of 2009 (Children's day). Plan was to leave home early in the morning but with 2 toddlers, 2 teenage girls and 6 middle age adu... Read More
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I came across this site only in the last week of April 09. It took a few days to explore the site. I really liked the Delhi-Goa and Delhi-Lucknow road reviews. I am from Lucknow, so may try the Delhi-Lucknow one, some day. One thing is for sure that ... Read More
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It was Wednesday evening when Sourabh came & asked to go out of Delhi on Weekend. Immediately everybody started looking at him & responded yes in a very strange way. This reaction was not due to the short notice for outing but everybody was s... Read More
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I prefer having an idea of the things I want to explore so I do not miss out on anything of significance. That is what I used to think until I made a trip to Jaipur. My travels to Jaipur changed my pre-conceived notions of travelling as to how I want... Read More
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A kingdom buried with time... Hi folks, firstly I want to say that Ghumakkar is a really good platform that I have discovered and the quality of travel writing is really impressive. I am an avid traveller and love to drive around in my mini - ... Read More
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“यह है अपना राजपूताना, नाज़ इसे तलवारों पे, इसने सारा जीवन काटा बर्छी तीर कमानो पे, यह प्रताप का ... Read More
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Background It all started from a discussion with Nandan when he gave an idea for a long road trip from Delhi to Mumbai. It was a bit ambitious for a software guy like me, but the idea clicked and registered so gravely in my mind that I planned a ... Read More
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The "car-driving-bone" was predominantly present, had tickled at will and left it's mark on a number of occasions. In 1995, newly married, from chennai to tirupati, on bike, was it's start. Thereafter, post-arrival of santro, mumbai-lonavala, mumb... Read More
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Day 1 : We (Myself, Wife and two kids) started early morning at 2.30 a.m (15th October 2009) from our Indirapuram (Ghaziabad) residence in our trusted Santro.    According to our original schedule we were to leave for Jaisalmer only the next day.... Read More
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Well, to start with, the tiger surely has no spots, but the leopard does. But since spotting a tiger seems bigger thing than spotting the leopard, I am going ahead with this title. Ranthambhore is a forest park most definitely on the tourist map -... Read More
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The trip: We Planned this trip to Shekhawati region with friend Anirudh & his family. The first choice was to travel by public transport. Traveling by bus, with kids, for more than 5 hrs was vetoed. The train “Shekhawti Express” starts from R... Read More
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Statistics Road conditions between : Udaipur-Bhilwara - 6/10, Rajsamand - Bhilwara 5/10, Bhilwara to Agra via Jaipur - 7.5 /10  (for more info on " for a detailed note on the road conditions in India,  click on the  link  Mumbai-Udaipur 7... Read More
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It just happened. Hotel rooms were booked in Dharamsala but in the wee hours of a cold January our cars raced from Delhi towards the Jhunjhunu district of Sekhawati! Was it providence or wanderlust has its own meandering ways? Whatever, which truly b... Read More
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The new New Honda City needed a long haul, probably a more honest statement would be that its driver was looking for a drive so when an opportunity came knocking, it was hard to refuse. We were to go to 'Chomu Palace', in Chomu, Rajasthan (near Jaipu... Read More
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This post is in continuation with my last post Delhi-Vadodara-Delhi Road Trip (Part -1). Starting from Delhi, with a stop-over at Udaipur, we arrived Vadodara on 1st of October. Stayed there for the next 2 days and started the return journey on 4th ... Read More
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Continuing with my ongoing journey of exploring this beautiful country of ours -India, and moving forward from where I left this majestic state of Rajasthan (earlier trip being to Neemrana Fort Palace), this time around enticed enough by a long weeke... Read More
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The advent of spring was greeted with great excitement as it gives one of the two breaks – the other being summer – for a long-overdue trip somewhere. Planning started in right earnest for the whole of 11 days in hand which falls towards the end ... Read More
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Rajasthan being one the nearest destinations to Delhi, this time around we planned a trip to the Sariska Tiger Reserve located at about 185 kms. We started off early from Gurgaon taking the NH8. It took about 3 hours by our car to reach the resort we... Read More
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 Dear Friends, After long duration of two months , I am coming here in ghumakkar with my Rajasthan Yatra done in 2012 - 2013. After my heavy trip with Sandeep Jatdevta to three jyotirlings and four treks in October - November 2012 , I traveled wi... Read More
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It was 5th day of January 2013 and we had geared up our car for the journey from Pushkar to Jaipur. I wanted to reach the pink city as early as possible so that at lest half day sight seeing becomes possible. We still hadn't taken our breakfast so de... Read More
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This post is on our travel during last December when winters are there in north of India. Me and my two colleagues Sandeep, Vinod and my brother in law Ankit decided for an outing and we wanted to have an experience of adventure and thrill one gets ... Read More
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Hotel Nagpal at Ajmer was a nice hotel newly built but I  could n,t have a nice sleep there and at about 6 A.M went for a stroll. My main purpose was not inquiring about the way to Pushkar( which was an easy one) but to inquire about the route t... Read More
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When we came out in the town I was feeling a bit hungry as had not eaten much till now. So I was in search of a nice Dhaba to binge on some solid food(proper khana) . On the way to highway in the market there were 3-4 Dhabas on one side. I  just sto... Read More
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So the day finally came off to say good bye to this beautiful city. With a heartfelt remorse we had to bid adieu and move forward. Iwent to meet the owner of the hotel who was gem of a person. On the first day of my stay in the hotel when I asked him... Read More
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In the last post I had left you all with this hummable song, Yaara sili sili. I continue from that note. I had thought the town of Nathdwara not in sense a town but a large village (nondescript type) with a very few facilities there but perhaps I was... Read More
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So I was on my way to Udaipur after having a nice time at Ranakpur, needless to say now I didn,t have to go through the steep slopes of Kumbhalgarh. Within a few minutes my car was on highway and Udaipur was within our reach. The time was about 2.30 ... Read More
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19th August 2012 – 06:00 am – Rising Sun Retreat, Mount Abu (beginning of the return journey) I, as usual, woke up everyone, it was dark and COLD … but we had to get ready to leave … after multiple knocking on the door, and shouting and ye... Read More
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Day 5, 3rd day of January 2013 started with gunguni dhoop in Udaipur. That day we decided to have punjabi breakfast so aaloo paranthas from Kailash Bhojanalaya was our breakfast in Rajasthan. We were sure that we had to go to Kumbhalgarh that day but... Read More
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Day 4, january 2, 2013 started with a lovely morning. With my family members sleeping , I went for a stroll around surajpole and thought hard what to have for breakfast. When I came back my daughters and wife savita was awake. After discussing with t... Read More
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I never thought of visiting Bundi ever, forget about planning a vacation. But on any given day I would pick a visit to a place over no visit to any place so when my better half so excitedly suggested for Bundi/Kota, I was game. Rajasthan in winters i... Read More
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Our day 3 was the day ushering a new year on this planet. HAPPY NEW YEAR was the wish on our lips. When I opened the door of balcony opening towards the main busy chauraha of Surajpole, a surprise awaited me as in beautiful colours, it was written on... Read More
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So , winter vacations were there and date was 30, december 2012. Some days ago we were undecided where to proceed on our annual vacation trip. But various posts on Ghummakar just solved my problem and me along with my my wife savita and daughters Bha... Read More
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To Recap 18th August 2012 – 12:00 Noon – Rising Sun Retreat, Mount Abu (1175 kms) WOW … we had reached our destination … 1200 kms, 3 states, 7 riders … and we were sitting in Mount Abu. The last 1 month, 16th July – 18th August came i... Read More
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17th August 2012 – 08:00 am – Hotel Broadway, Udaipur – rest Day- Sight Seeing As usual I had the job to wake up people, as we didn’t want to loose the day and visit as many places as possible in Udaipur. We had a plan in place, and I also... Read More
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16th August 2012 – 08:00am – Hotel Good Night, lal darwaza, Ahmedabad, Gujarat (697 kms) It had been a terribly exhaustive and an adventurous day … and I think everybody was dead tired to know that it was morning … I got up and it was dark... Read More
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15th August 2012 – 04:30 am – Rakshak Chowk, Pune Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. Yo... Read More
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प्रिय मित्रों, [caption id="attachment_79060" align="alignleft" width="448"] Water scooter ride in Fateh Sagar Lake[/caption] आज इस यात्रा का अंतिम चरण है। हम पां... Read More
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सप्ताह का आखिरी दिन अचानक ही एक साथी ने कहा की क्यों न रंथाम्बोर चला जाए, मै हमेशा से ही वन्य जीवन... Read More
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प्रिय मित्रों, अभी तक हम माउंट आबू घूम रहे थे और दो दिन ज्ञान सरोवर में ज्ञान-गंगा में डुबकियां ... Read More
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प्रिय मित्रों, आप जान ही चुके हैं कि हम सहारनपुर से कार से दिल्ली और फिर दिल्ली से वायुयान से उद... Read More
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बीकानेर में दिन में हम करणी माता चूहों वाला मन्दिर, जूनागढ़ किला, राजमहल, रिजार्ट, सहित कई सारे ... Read More