Category: North India
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Jaipur – BucketList for Next Visit
Third day at Jaipur and now I will be pushing off to another nearby destination. It has been an interesting 3 days and this city has lots to be explored! I have poignantly realized that my travel style is slow, relaxed and I just like taking my time with things… I spent a few hours…
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Sikkim Photos
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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Chandigarh in 8 Pictures
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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Sangla Pictures after heavy rainfalls – #Uttarakhand Floods
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
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
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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McLeodGanj – A Place of Stories
It is a congested town, as so many towns in India are. Here however I felt stories. Lots of different stories unfolding… maybe because it is the place for the Tibetan government in exile, maybe because it is one of the few places where revolution/revolt/patriotism has some meaning, maybe because of the Llamas that are…
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Short Guide to Rewalsar, Himachal Pradesh
Hi there reader, I generally don’t write such ‘short guide’ posts because they are so easily available online, except for a few destinations for whatever reasons. Rewalsar is one of them… so here goes for the benefit of my fellow travellers esp solo women because we tend to plan out where we will be staying…
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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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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…