Gwalior: Walking through Royal Legacy
Peetambara Peeth is a well known shakti peeth in Datia, Madhya Pradesh. A quick day trip was planned to visit this sacred place by…
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Lansdowne….let the lands down, come up in hills.
On April 29, my wife, who was at her mom’s home, called me up in the evening and expressed her wish to see Lansdowne. As…
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PURANA QILA – LIGHT & SOUND SHOW (NEW DELHI)
PURANA (OLD) Qila in NEW Delhi – an appropriate expression indeed, of what Delhi is all about – layers and sub layers of history…
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Paint your imagination
Hello fellow travelers. This time I really proved to myself that “I can do anything for traveling”. Because this time I traveled on the…
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Delhi- Khajuraho – Panna
Currently there are 3 tigers and 4 cubs in the reserve and 25 leopards in the reserve(the number of leopards is an approximation only since there is no tracking of number through gps devices as done for tigers).
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Bhangarh : India’s most haunted place
It all started with an idea to visit some off-beat destination around Delhi. Google search leads to an image of Bhangarh ruins that claims to be India’s most haunted place…
…Now we started our introspection to each and every ruin to find something roguish, but didn’t get anything of that short. Although a negative energy was there in the environment. Probably they shifted somewhere else due to increasing foot-falls.
Rail trip to Jaisalmer
The hour and a half that you spend on the train on that stretch is filled with varying emotions….and then suddenly you enter the Jaisalmer station….it just crops up from nowhere……and I guess that’s the best way to end a journey which has been full of colour, emotions, questions and surprises.
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Panchgani – Prospect Hotel
We (me, wife and our two month old son) went to Panchgani for a day to unwind after a long hiatus. We did not…
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A Visit to Mighty Badami Caves
I had a wonderful opportunity to visit the famed cave temples of Badami. I went in a group tour to see several places in…
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Sparrow, shark tooth and rocks
History, arts and science are seen as three separate areas, that apparently have little in common. But it was not always like that. In…
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Khajuraho – Beyond Temples
By the time we crossed Chhatarpur, it was beginning to get dark and having no familiarity with the local landscape, we kept driving oblivious…
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The Big Nataraja of Konerirajapuram
Kumbakonam is well known as a pilgrimage centre, in particular for those on the Navagraha circuit. Once in every twelve years, the Mahamaham Kumbh is held around the tank of the same name, attracting millions of pilgrims from far and wide. Kumbakonam is also called Temple City with literally hundreds of temples of its own, most of them ancient. The big two are the Kumbeswarar Siva Temple and Sarangapani Vishnu Temple. Swamimalai, one of the six abodes of Lord Murugan is a mere 6 km away. The World Heritage Site of Darasuram is just outside the city. The Cauvery Delta is a must visit for those who enjoy ancient living monuments and stepping back in time.
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