Delhi – Kolkata – Delhi – Road Trip – Part 2
Day 1: Delhi to Varanasi: 5th Feb 2010 (793 km) The journey continues… Thanks for all the comments. And thanks for recharging my batteries….
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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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Got courage to do this travel from an earlier post. Had planned to start early but the damned alarm didn’t go off as planned…
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Wah! Taj indeed…
A brief business trip to Agra culminated in my seizing an opportunity to visit the most magnificent structure built on earth in the name…
Read MoreA 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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Orchha, A precious ‘Gem’ of Bundelkhand.
Orchha, is a charming village on the banks of river Betwa, a prominent river system in the Bundelkhand region. For those who are not…
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Chitrakoot – Hill of Many wonders
This is part 2 of my visit to Chitrakoot and contains a brief of my visit to the many shrines that dot the district. Part 1 of my visit or the Road Review can be found here. Karwi Railway station is named Chitrakoot Dham. However the actual Chitrakoot is about 5-6 km before Karwi when approaching from Banda. The religious shrines are spread over the town on both sides of the UP – MP border. Since I am not an expert on the Hindu religion I am going to be quoting a lot from Wikipedia, so do bear with me. The photographs though are all mine.The important shrines include the Ramghat, Kamadgiri, Bharat Milap, Janaki Kund, Sati Anusuya ashram, Sphatic Shila, Gupt-Godavari, Hanuman Dhara and the Bharat Koop.
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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…
Read MoreMathura and Vrindavan
Last year, I along with a friend went to Mathura and Vrindavan. This was sort of my mother’s plan. Since I was in Delhi,…
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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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Banaras…..The City of Religion, Tradition and Culture
So, again I am here with another experience of ghumakkadi in my life. Though, I have read blogs on the locations are written in…
Read MoreDelhi-Kanpur-Lucknow-Gorakhpur road trip
To begin with my first post, I am expressing my sincere thanks to Nandan and team Ghumakkar for motivating me to drive this long….
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