Nandan Jha, Author at Ghumakkar - Inspiring travel experiences.

My first trek to Ma Vaishno Devi

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On a chilly January morning of 1998 in Delhi, Vikram, a friend and co-worker, announced his plan to go to the shrine of Ma…

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I was at Benares and we were mulling over whether to do a trip to Sarnath or not. I was not feeling too well,…

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After spending a day at Allahabad, we started towards Banaras or Varanasi. The drive is not a long one as its only 140 KM…

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Allahabad was our first night-stop on that great drive to orient which I wrote some time back. For a better period of our planing,…

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There was some work to be done at Dehardun, the capital city of Uttranchal and it could be done over a weekend. I had…

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Thats a long name for a hotel, especially the one which is worthy enough to write a review. And if I tell you that…

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Not many people would plan a trip to a place called ‘Lakhimpur’ which is more popularly known as ‘Lakhimpur Khiri’ so when an opportunity…

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Ajanta Continental is a family run hotel in Dehradun, Uttaranchal. I stayed there for two nights in May,2008 and thought that a small quick…

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A business trip for two days to the city of ‘Tehzeeb’, as Aditya said in his post on Lucknow, had to have some room…

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This is continuation to my previous story. Click here to read that. By now the only big thing which was left to do was…

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Its called ‘The Golden city’, for the color, an apt enough reason one would say. Looking beyond the color, you would find Jaisalmer to…

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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…