La Place Sarovar Portico, Lucknow – Review
It was my fourth summer at Lucknow and my old friends would now know the reason of my annual pilgrimage. Last year i.e. 2009,…
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A trip to home this winter-Part1
Ten minutes of recharging and I found the phone booth guy keenly interested in my phone , probably checking out the features (which doesn’t sound very plausible given it is a very simple model). When I asked for my phone he smiled for some unknown reason and said,”Maidam, charge toh pura lagega. Waise aapka blue tooth on tha…hum band kar diye”
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Lucknow – Chitrakoot – Lucknow Road Review
I recently had an opportunity to visit Chitrakoot by Road as part of my official travels. The summary of the route followed is given…
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Trip to City of Nawabs and Kebabs
I am glad to have the opportunity to post the 5ooth post of Ghumakkar.com :) Congrats to every author of this wonderful travel blog….
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Hi All, Recently went on a road trip from Delhi to Lucknow on NH2for a cousins wedding. We left on 8th Feb 09 and returned on…
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A Short Journey through Rain in Plains on a very Late Train
Hello Ghumakkars, The following post is based on a post originally made by me to a closed Yahoogroup. I am posting this here as…
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By the lanes of Aminabad – Lucknow
A business trip for two days to the city of ‘Tehzeeb’, as Aditya said in his post on Lucknow, had to have some room…
Read MoreRoad Review : Delhi-Kanpur-Lucknow
Having completed the big road drive (Delhi – Jaisalmer- Jodhpur – Delhi in 4 days) on previous weekend, we were high on driving!
The distance from Delhi to Lucknow is approximately 500 km by road. The standard route is Delhi – Hapur – Moradabad – Rampur- Bareilly – Shahjahanpur- Sitapur – Lucknow. Another new route that is becoming popular is the Delhi – Kanpur – Lucknow route. Some of my friends tried this route few months back and said that it is fast as it’s a 4 lane road but longer than the standard route by about 50 km. We decided to take the longer and the faster one.
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Kolkata to Kumaon – At Lucknow
It was around 1330 hrs when we completed the places and headed for our hotel, which was not very far. Had a lunch and in the afternoon went to the tomb of “Saadat Ali Khan”.
Just almost opposite the tomb was “Begam Hazrat Mahal Park”, which was build in the honour of a beautiful and courageous woman, dated back in 1962.
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Delhi to Lucknow in 5 hours via YEW and Agra Lucknow Expressway
It was a pleasure driving on this road. I counted 57 vehicles while going towards Lucknow on this expressway which means a lot of people are still unaware of it. I tried to maintain a consistent speed of 120 kmph on this road, but to my surprise I found I was driving at 130-135 kmph. There is very little noise while driving on this road. I encountered total 4 small diversions (diversion means when you have to drive on the wrong side of the expressway).
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There was very little traffic on this road, to keep myself busy I was counting how many vehicles I crossed, and the final count till Ganga Bridge was (14 cars, 27 large vehicles including a single UPSTRC Bus from Lucknow to Kunda, total 31 vehicles in around 4 hours!!!).
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Lucknow – City of Tahzeeb and Nazakat
Aminabad is a huge market for embroidered chickan clothes, a specialty of Lucknow. The famous ‘Tunde ke Kabab’ is also located here. Some other interesting food items (dishes) which are famous in lucknow are Rahim-ke-kulche nihari, Bismillah-ki-biryani, Radhey-ki malai gilori and lassi, Raja-ki-thandai, Sharma-ki-chaat.
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