Category: India
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Himachal People Gave me a Culture Shock because they are so Awesome! <3
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
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
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
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
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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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…