Mathura Vrindavan – A day spent in God’s Grace
Well, last Sunday i.e. 4 th July, tempted by pleasant weather we decided to go to Mathura. We started our journey around 8 in…
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Car trip, Mumbai – Manali – Mumbai, 4550 kms in 15 days – Part 2 Udaipur-Agra-Delhi
This was the best part of the trip. THE COMPLETE FREEDOM to go anywhere, anytime. I felt like a true ghumakkar OR had my ghumakkar ahaa moment!!
I confess. I did pat on my back for having made the road trip plan, in my car, and not tied it up via air / rail transports.
Car trip, Mumbai – Manali – Mumbai, 4550 kms in 15 days
The “car-driving-bone” was predominantly present, had tickled at will and left it’s mark on a number of occasions…….
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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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Road Trip to TAJ MAHAL-The Real Beauty of India
On 11 th Feb ‘ 10 me and my brother just made the plan to visit the Taj Mahal. We had only One single…
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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…
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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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