
Trip to Switzerland: Part 6 – Trip to Mount Pilatus
The next morning in Luzern, our destination was Mount Pilatus (wikipedia, official site). Mount Pilatus is another famous tourist site in Switzerland, located near…
Read MoreThe next morning in Luzern, our destination was Mount Pilatus (wikipedia, official site). Mount Pilatus is another famous tourist site in Switzerland, located near…
Read MoreThe road meanders through lush fields bordered by coconut and palm trees . The bamboo stalks greet you as a collage of green and…
Read MoreItaly was like the flavor of the month some days back when I wrote this incomplete article and saved it in drafts praying that…
Read MoreNext day, we left the hotel at 6.30 am and hired a jeep to take us to Govindghat, the starting point of the 14-kilometer trek to the Valley of Flowers (VoF) and Hemkund Sahib, which is another nine kilometers from the Valley. It took us 1.30 hours to reach Govindghat.
Read MoreIn May 2000, I along with my family was at Darbhanga which is a small town in northern Bihar. My grandpa and grandma lives…
Read MoreAs mentioned above, on the first day floral tributes were paid at the Dargah and on the second day at the Temple. The second day was also a “Mela Day”, with lots of fun and frolic at the large park on the southern side of the monument.
Read MoreThe rains come down and the peacocks shriek in delight .We could count more than a dozen in the twilight hour, perched on the…
Read MoreOur stay in the city of Interlaken done (and the hotel reservations having run out), we decided to move to our next destination, the…
Read MoreBoarding fast train from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, we reached Amsterdam central station. Amsterdam central station is located at the hub of activities and as…
Read MoreI dont know whether it was the shaking (in the shekh land) desert safari the previous evening or the spring-bed but I had a…
Read MoreIn a previous post, I had covered our trip to Jungfrau. The return was a bit of an anti-climax, since the line to the…
Read MoreThe village head, Ram Dayal requested us to help with the health-care, which was non-existent in the village. The nearest place to get even the basic medicines was Talha, which was twenty five kms away.
Read MoreMy recent visit to the Indian Museum in Kolkata was a memorable experience, made even more special by the fact that I got to…
In Kerala, the colors we noticed in abundance were Green, Green, Green and occasional Blue. It is a keralite tradition not to build houses taller than the surrounding trees and hence wherever one lives the abundant greenery always surrounds him and even the pristine blue sky is visible only in glimpses.
A dream was coming true, when we started Adi Kailash Yatra on 3rd Oct, 2022 from our home. At that time, we did not…
We woke up early next morning as per our itinerary with excitement to experience some of the grandest waterfalls of the region. We started by witnessing the famous Elephant Falls in Shillong, The falls which is locally called “Kshaid Lai Pateng Khohsiew” or three step falls, was coined “Elephant falls” by the British due to the rock on the left side that resembled an elephant.