Kayoed in Kabini
When my pal told me about these series of wildlife sanctuaries in Karnataka, I was slightly sceptical of the feasibility of going to them…
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Akshardham – Ideal Outing for a Blazing Summer Afternoon
Most people are surprised when I claim this. After all, the open gardens of Akshardham do not appear so inviting when the sun is…
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A visit to the Cellular Jail, Port Blair, Andaman
January 21, 2019 After lunch, we moved to the historic Cellular Jail. Once it was used to be a symbol of horror and torture,…
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Hotel Shire in Gangtok
There is a big prayer room, a kitchen garden, few ducks, parking space, tress and lots of fresh and clean air. You don’t feel like being fitted in a small hotel room, rather it gives you a feeling of a mini resort. The air is pretty casual and you can walk up to Tempa (the man who runs it) for anything and everything. Tempa’s dad and mom, both had a very illustrious career with government of Sikkim and if you are lucky then you can get to see all those old photographs and award plaques of his father.
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Gangtok in the summer of 2007
If I tell you that this time as well I was able to get a inexpensive ticket, probably you would look at me as…
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Kikar Lodge – A good break from city
Office arranged picnics are usually not very exciting for they tend to keep things which make sense to a large no of people and…
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Quick Drive to Amritsar
Quick Drive to Amritsar Amritsar, more correctly called, Ambarsar is located close to 500 Km from Delhi, capital of India and the biggest reason…
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We just checked out the restaurant and it was quite an old-world dark and dingy place. Somehow most of the state run hotels have this dingy darkness probably because of ill-designed interiors or just plain apathy…Room Service is quite dismal and it took them as much as 1 hour to get you a cup of tea and much more to get breakfast. To top it all, the flask was broken and the waiter was in bathroom slippers…
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The maiden trip to the Andaman Islands – Chatham Saw Mills
Chatham Saw Mill was set up in 1883 with the primary objective to meet the local requirements of saw and timber for the constructional works. Being one of the biggest and oldest in Asia, this structure has witnessed a lot of history.
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Senior travellers to Andamans – Sagarika Emporium, Samudrika Naval Museum & Govt Saw Mill
It was a visit par-excellence where-in we got to experience unspoilt nature, clean and pristine beaches, sailing over clear turquoise blue waters, the heavenly world of marine life, the awesome corrals and above all the famous, notorious and now nostalgic cellular jail,
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Roller Coaster tour of Varanasi of South – “The Rameshwaram”, Ghost City – “DhanushKodi” and Temple City – “Madurai”
This highly esteemed temple is one among the 12 shiva jyotirlingam temples in India. After moving out from Darshan area, we bowed our heads in all the temples strewn all around the campus.
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Senior travellers to the Andamans – Ross Island, Mt Harriet & the Corrals of Buoy Island
The Buoy Island, the boat ride, the corrals and the rest of the marine life were each an experience of a lifetime. Few years back I had done an almost similar trip to the Corral Island across Pattaya in Thailand where the viewing of the marine lives and corrals through the glass bottom boat was of a comparatively much poorer standard.
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