Ganga River and Varanasi :- Combination of Shiva and Shakti 10th , 11th and 14th March 2011 , 3 days we were in Kashi and many times again and again we went to banks of Ganga for having her mighty darshan. I will try to put some info on this might... Read More

Hello Ghumakkars, The following post is based on a post originally made by me to a closed Yahoogroup. I am posting this here as I could not resist the temptation of sharing an exhilirating train ride in monsoon here, based on the response that Kar... Read More

This Sunday we ventured out for the first time during this monsoon season for a round trip of lakes, dams & hills around Pune. After a little research found that there is a circuitous route of around 130 kms which takes us through Temghar, Lavasa... Read More

Part I - Base Camp Part III - The Descent Part II - The Ascent On the 20th (3rd day) we woke up bright and early with expectation heavy in the air. After double checking our backpacks and packing our lunch we got a pep talk from the director... Read More

13th Aug (Alchi) Vicky & Sandy came to our room @ 5:00 AM to wake us up and start for Drass & Zojila. Previous night I could not sleep for a long time thinking whether I should go with the rest or stay at Alchi for some time as my holiday wa... Read More

After reaching Leh, detailed in the previous post,  all we did was relax and rest.  We had plans to ride to Khardung La the next day and needed to conserve all the energy we would need and some more to be able to reach there.  we informed the hote... Read More

In continuation of 3rd part …….. Route 04 ------ Datwali Mata - Chanderbani Temple – Mind rolling Monastery – Guru Ramrai darbar + Shopping On this route one can cover the following places :- 1. Datwali mata :- It is sit... Read More

Next day morning again I got up at 5.00 am to watch the sun rise but the weather was too bad , worst than the previous day. We got ready by 7.30am as we planned but soon it started raining but we didn’t have any choice , none of us want to leave C... Read More

A great year of travel is coming to an end and we AT Ghumakkar are trying to imagine, what the new year is going to bring. With the dreaded recession mostly on the way out , airlines beginning to get full, industrial output and inflation both heading... Read More

Day 1 - 12 March 2011 After attending Sakshi's wedding on 11th March 2011 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, Adhiraaj and i left for Mcleodganj the next morning. It was 6.30 am when we reached Hoshiarpur bus and boarded the Punjab Roadways bus to Dharamshala.... Read More

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,... Read More

So before I begin, i think its ritualistic to first introduce myself. I am Vasanth (Vas), a rider from Delhi. I have a royal enfield bullet electra. My ridography includes a solo ride to Ladakh in 2007, a ride to chittorgarh, rajasthan with my wife a... Read More

4th Aug (Manali - Keylong) We started from Manali @ 7 AM in rain and fog as we didn't have much choice. Entire stretch was slushy with some small good patches. The fog/cloud/mist was very dense and our clothing was getting wet. We reached Marhi wh... Read More

Part II - The Ascent Part III - The Descent Part I - Base Camp This Summer I decided to do something different. I decided to climb. When I was in college we used to go on these one day trekking expeditions to nearby Ooty and Kodaikanal. Now ... Read More

"Outside of a dog, a book is Man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx. Had it not been for the Outlook Traveller Gateways (on HP) , Naggar would not have happened. A note on books and blogs Books (e-books or pa... Read More

This series is about my bike trip to Ladakh & Nubra Valley in year 2006. Its long time since I did this trip but still quite vivid in my mind. I was maintaining a notebook during this trip. I had started documenting it but soon gave up due to eno... Read More

This time around, I did not have to go far from Pune to make a trip down the history lane. Within a distance of 40-50 km from Pune, in the lap of Sahyadri, are some of the oldest and some of the finest rock cut caves of western Maharashtra and probab... Read More

It is that time of the year when the team at Ghumakkar gets down to choose the ones who took us to travel the most, to the new and interesting places and leave lasting impressions. Their journeys and their expression hooked us on so strong that while... Read More

Many a times I have come across people who tell me that they have visited Coorg and my first question would be "Where in Coorg?". "Cooorg" comes the answer. Well..not many people realise that Coorg (aka Kodagu) is actually a District, and the town ... Read More

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 timelin... Read More

so got a chance again for a drive and the reason was again dear friend aman. he had to go to chandigarh where he worked for 6 months as junior resident in government medical college. All the doctors were getting there arrears and he had to submit an ... Read More

We had thought of trekking the highest peak in Karnataka called "Mulayangiri". Even though there is a road which winds up and goes upto the peak but we wanted to trek. We drove upto a place called called "Sarpadari" from where the trek starts which i... Read More

Our trip to Scotland this year was meant to be touching upon the nature trail even though we went during the peak of the famed Fringe festival. We, i.e., my husband and I didn’t take our 6 year old daughter for this trip so all the difficult walks ... Read More

Be soft on my curves - sign - road to chang-la pass; it's among the highest passes in the region after Khardungla. The glacier was the last melting pieces of the season and we walked under it for some Kodak moments. This was more Snowy in comparison ... Read More

The History of Residency can be traced back to 1774 AD when Nawab Shuauddahula agreed to have a British Resident stationed in Awadh. Residency was established at Lucknow when the capital of Awadh was shifted from Faizabad to Lucknow in year 1775 A... Read More