Category: India
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Sikkim Photos
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Went to the absolutely stunning Sikkim a few years back. It is also referred to as the Switzerland of India, but I am not sure Switzerland is so awesome! This was a family trip and part of the group had been to most of the places in Sikkim, so they wanted to go specifically to…
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River Rafting in River Kali, Dandeli
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After the hype of the last post, I am going to have to disappoint you a little bit. The gypsies were very much there…. not ethnic Romani people but peasants and villagers from around North Karnataka. Lots of them had gathered at an ancient Shiva temple located near Dandeli for the full moon of the…
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To Dandeli & Back – Rejuvenated
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Dandeli. Yes I know, if you are from Mumbai and other northern areas of the country you don’t know what I am talking about. If you are from Bangalore its been a family trip weekend destination forever! It is namma Dandeli for you. I went Mumbai – Dandeli – Bangalore – Mumbai and I have…
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Chandigarh in 8 Pictures
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Chandigarh was the stop over for my trip to the Himachal Pradesh, April 2013. It was a good stop over. India’s planned city does come across as planned. The buildings are shorter with a height limit, the roads are really wide, lots of gardens, sectors that are well defined but confusing for outsiders and a…
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Bucketlist: Tour the Lighthouses of India
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What do you think of Lighthouses? Do they transport you to some mystical, adventurous & raucous age-old ship voyage with sailors swearing at each other but with a die-hard exploration spirit blooming in their hearts? Ships, wrecks, explorers, discovery of new lands, exotic stuff, tribals, talking parrots or have I just read too many books…
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Solo Female Traveler Safety in India – #2 General Tips
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So I took the last blog post on women safety to mention how I am paranoid about safety. So you can probably take these tips I have for women (esp solo) travelers with a pinch of salt. Or maybe you are paranoid like me too ;) Time Okay to be outside time: 8.30am to 8pm…
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A Brief Guide To Hampi – A Traveller’s Delight
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“After 6 months of travelling, this is the most beautiful place I have visited in India” “It’s one of my most favorite places on Earth” “You have to go to Hampi, its awesome” These are the kind of raves I have been hearing for a while now from travellers for Hampi. I got a chance…
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Balaram Temple, Malpe
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Malpe is a small beach town near Udupi. Its like a suburb of Udupi, just some 6 km away. Amongst stuff to see in Malpe there is the superb beach, fishing wharf, ship cutters factory and an ancient Balaram temple. Balaram is the brother of Krishna and also a big sage/god or something. The Balaram…
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Solo Female Traveler Safety in India – #1 My Thoughts on General Women Safety
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The first time I went on a solo trip Mumbai – Goa – Bangalore – Mysore – Coimbatore – Mumbai was 4 years back. I planned everything out – the stay, travel tickets, backup options. Yet there were always unknown factors like the hostel I had booked in Mysore, would it be safe? I had…
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Sangla Pictures after heavy rainfalls – #Uttarakhand Floods
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A friend of mine has a quaint little restaurant + home stay called Cafe 42 in Sangla. Sangla is near the eastern borders of Himachal Pradesh hence quite close to Uttarakhand. There were no floods but very heavy rainfall for many days, leading to a power blackout for more than 7 days. Many roads have…
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3 Tips for McLeodganj
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I will quickly jot type some of these tips I had in mind when I was in McLeodganj. Once I come back to Mumbai I get so caught up with things that I barely write half of what I want to about places I have visited. So here goes, Visit the Bookstores I devour books.…
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Himachal People Gave me a Culture Shock because they are so Awesome! <3
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Dharamshala. Dalai Lama. Tibetan Story. That was my whole pull to visit Himachal Pradesh. Actually it hardly mattered to me that it was Himachal Pradesh. Anyway all these states kind of get blurred when you are on the road. So there I was – unsuspecting I landed at the bus stop at Mandi. The local…
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Photo Story & Travel Route – 1 month on the road, South India
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Finally finished my photo compilation of my 1 month long road travel in Jan, 2013! I traveled around South India in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and a little bit in Kerala! The final route looked like, Mum – Madikeri (via Mangalore) – Mysore (with Isha Yatra covered: Halebeedu/Belur, Gomatgiri, Nanjungoud, B.R.Hills and more) – Coimbatore (Isha…
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The Bylakuppe Adventure – Tibetan Settlement, Coorg
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I was quite excited to go to the tibetan settlement at Bylakuppe in Coorg since I found out about it sometime back. I visited it about 10 days back. The Golden Temple is a tourist attraction and a very extravagant tibetan temple! My adventure however started as an uncle dropped me at the gates of…
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The Errant Cow – Travel Animal Stories
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While surfing I came across Ailsa’s travel blog, where she has weekly theme posts! This week’s theme is animals. I remembered one incident with an errant cow in Mysore that I thought I can make part of her theme. Its actually quite funny. Generally domestic animals are afraid of human contact but the cows on…
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Health Retreats in India – Naturopathy, Ayurvedic and others
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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
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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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I meet a bunch of women – Travel Tales
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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One month on the Road
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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…
