To 13800 ft and back on foot- Sar Pass – II
Part I – Base Camp Part III – The Descent Part II – The Ascent On the 20th (3rd day) we woke up bright…
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Our Road Trip to Kanvashram and Pauri
During 2009 Dewali long weekend, we went to Kanvashram and Pauri. A visit to Lansdowne in October 2002 was my first encounter with the…
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A gradual build-up of the travel mood with an evening in the Rajsamand Lake
As always it started like this. I was on the phone talking to my sister-in-law, “No, No, this time we are going to Udaipur…
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Road trip to Khurja – The Ceramics City
Khurja is a small city (and a municipal board) in the Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh. It is situated around 85 km from Delhi….
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Firoze Shah Kotla : From the oblivious past
How could one miss the opportunity of a stroll through the beautiful lawns of Firoz Shah Kotla on a sunny day amidst the foggy…
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Mussoorie- Random Memoirs
22nd November, 2007 Passage to Mussoorie : Memoirs In a little bit foggy morning of November I started my Journey towards one of the…
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Binsar – A Jungle Safari
‘Should anyone take away anything belonging to the God or his worshippers and avenging spirit and compels him conscience stricken to restore it twenty…
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Harsil/Gangotri – On Bhagirathi Trail (Part II)
Part I covered our journey from New Delhi to Uttarkashi, during May 10. Our first night halt was at Rishikesh (220 kms from New…
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Riding the Sands of Time
This is a Blast from the Past… When I used to ride with the Luci-fers… a bunch of bike enthusiasts from my ex-office… before…
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Uttarkashi , Gangotri – On Bhagirathi Trail (Part I)
Summer days are here again – with bagful of fantastical to-do’s in the oncoming vacations. I suppose we, who are on the wrong end/side…
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Pinjore – Kalkaji temple – Cactus Garden Review
As said in my last story on https://www.ghumakkar.com/2010/05/28/musoorie-surkanda-dhanaulti-dehradun/#more-11241 I am breaking the jinx of not writing, finally I guess it’s broken so trying to…
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Musoorie – Surkanda – Dhanaulti – Dehradun
It’s been a more than a year I am following Ghumakkar to read the experiences of Ghumakkar’s. I really like reading the write ups…
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