Chanshal Pass – The Banished Beauty
“For we are bound where Mariner has not yet dared to go, And we will risk the ship, Ourselves and all.” -‘Passage to India’…
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Delhi to Vaishno Devi
पिछले कुछ दिनों से राजधानी दिल्ली का मौसम काफी गर्म था. ऊपर से रोज -रोज भ्रस्टाचार के नित नए जुमले और दिनांक 13 /7…
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Following Yamuna to its Source – A Road Trip….Part 2
02 July 2011 Continuing from where i left in the last post, the road till Yamuna Bridge was well laid but then again there…
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Ranikhet and Kausani – Himalayan Meadows : Part 3 (Ranikhet)
Ranikhet, an endearing hill station, is yet to be invaded by pizza/burger/ice-cream joints. One could rather try out pahadi rajma, meat/ chawal or momo/…
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Following Yamuna to its Source – A Road Trip….Part 1
01 July 2011 I wonder why it happens every time with me that whenever i have to leave for a trip, my days in…
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Camp Potter’s Hill Shimla : Quick Review
Overall – A pleasant trip where we had fun. But seriously the place lacks value for money. Accessibility – From the summers hill railway…
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Kedarnath Badrinath Rishikesh and Haridwar: The journey begins (PART I)
The past few months have been quite boring with very little action and almost no traveling. The exams added on to the lethargy and…
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Ranikhet And Kausani : Himalayan Meadows – Part II (Cottage Stay)
During numerous sojourns to the Himalayas, we often dream of a stay in ‘real’ mountainous solitude – perhaps a cottage, an independent abode entirely…
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Chasing the Monsoon
The appam and stew breakfast of West End Hotel in Talassery, will be talked about for time immemorial. You can see a newly built exotic looking resort, commune just after Talaserry station, on the East side , among backwaters, full of birds. The train reaches Kannur at 3.30 p.m. in time for a nice cup of tea and paruppu vada ( do you get anything else in Kerala trains?). KVR Veg Restaurant in Kannur station is fully managed by smiling women (one of them Shamima) and masala dosa is heaveanly.
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Exquisite beauty of Switzerland – Part three
Day 3: After two wonderfully spent days, we decided to capture the beauty of Switzerland from a bird’s eye view.. How? well, we decided…
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Fairy Land – Valley Of Flowers (VOF)
Valley of Flowers situated in the lap of the Himalayas about 3,200 m to 6,679 m in altitude in the Chamoli district of Uttrakhand. Pushpawati river emerge from Tipar glacier at base of Godhi Parvat ( Peak) flows though valley of flowers and meet Laxman Ganga at Ghanghria and finally in to Alaknanda river in GovindGhat. Valley become frozen during winter and become fairy land during summer.
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Paonta Sahib to Delhi via Dakpathar – Road Review
I drove from dakpathar to Delhi yesterday with my family while returning from Paonta Sahib.It was a beautiful drive as you drive past vikas…
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