Author: Priyanka
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Health Retreats in India – Naturopathy, Ayurvedic and others
Even though I do yoga regularly at home, I feel the urban lifestyle soon catches up to me. I look forward to health retreats in some clean and refreshing place far from the city! I have done some research to find a few health retreats, these are low to medium budget places, Nisargopchar Ashram – Uruli…
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On the road in Kashmir with old hindi songs – Travel Memories
The thing about traveling is that there are these memories… I don’t know how to describe them! Thinking back on them they seem surreal! One of them is traveling on the Kashmir roads in the car with our Kashmiri driver who had this awesome collection of old hindi songs, many of them I had never…
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Different People & their Behaviour towards others – It Matters!
Remember in school when the teachers are always demanding good behaviour? Especially when we go outside somewhere on a fieldtrip or picnic? Always there is the nag of being ‘respectable little kids’ by keeping our appearances tidy and maintaining our decibels. On my last travel trip I got a first hand account of what a…
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I meet a bunch of women – Travel Tales
The YHAI in Mysore, is one of my fav stay places! I have been there quite a few times and the staff know me too. This trip when I went there, I got one of the last few beds to sleep. The hostel was jam packed with conference participants. This conference was some spiritual group…
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Where the laundry guy disappears – Crazy Travel Tales
This trip of mine to Cbe-Mysore-Shravanbelagola-Bangalore was filled with some crazy encounters! One of the prominent ones being my laundry clothes debacle. Well it started with me, I was rushing off somewhere on Saturday morning and needed to drop off some clothes at a laundry. The big ones at that time were all closed so…
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In Kashmir – Srinagar, the Lake City
What I only knew of Venice, that it was built on/around a water body and one could travel around in a gondola and it being very romantic is all also true of Srinagar. The Dal lake is not just a lake one can go boating in, it connects the city, one can travel to different…
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In Kashmir – First Impressions
When Working and travelling something or the other can go wrong…its quite a task juggling everything so that clients get the best service and I can do some travel masti! On such a trip, I am currently sitting at the Srinagar airport in the cafe with a large number of military folk, I think they…
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Auroville and Matri Mandir, Pondicherry
15km from the city is the Auroville. This is also where the Matri Mandir – an intriguing meditation complex made by the Mother and Aurobindo is located. My first view of this center was a sense of lot of ‘disjoint’ communities working together. It probably felt disjoint because the different building complexes are some distance…
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Travel Foods – Flavored Yogurt and Soya Milk
A lot of people expect that I must be well versed with the local food cuisine of the different places I have travelled to. I take quite some pleasure in explaining to them that this is not so because I am vegetarian and Jain. I am not a strict jain but I do avoid onion…
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One month on the Road
I finally uploaded my trip photos, it is a tricky task because I have not yet figured out which photo platform to opt for longer use. Travel photographs is a topic for another blog post 🙂 Currently I want to write more about my 1 month road trip, I never got down to writing about…