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Guess where I traveled in 2014

Dec 312014
 
Guess where I traveled in 2014

The year that was 2014- From Coastal Andhra Pradesh to Thailand, Rajasthan and God’s Own Country What a  year it has been, starting with a wonderful trip to coastal Andhra Pradesh starting on 2nd of January, before it was bifurcated into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh giving India the 29th state. Suddenly there were so many new things to be discovered, new horizons to be covered and more miles to go. The visit to Machlipattnam in coastal AP was wonderful and I traveled with my friend and excellent photographer Ganesan P, one of his pictures clicked during the trip is [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Oh Melbourne – do I get to see you ?

Dec 302014
 
Oh Melbourne - do I get to see you ?

 a desi wish list to visit Melbourne  I have thought of a holiday abroad for some time, business trips just don’t qualify as vacation even if you stay for a weekend in the city you are visiting. With the passage of time  I  got into job and started travelling to various places in Europe, SE Asia, USA, but never had the good fortune of going to Australia. Hence a  keen latent wish to visit the magical land of Oz or down under as some people will call it. Always I have wondered why people do not fall there if it is [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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No Country for Wild Horses- Only Wild Men

Dec 152014
 
No Country for Wild Horses- Only Wild Men

  The Devil Drives the Driver   Why do perfectly normal men behave like monsters once they are behind the wheels of a car? Why somebody who is never in a hurry to meet any deadline either at home or in office suddenly decides to join the line of dead on our highways? What happens when a man is behind the wheels of a machine? Looking at the way some of us drive on our desi highways you tend to question is the man driving the machine or the monster is driving the man? Genghis Khan created and ruled [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Announcing the Winners of 2015 desi Calender Giveaway

Dec 092014
 
Announcing the Winners of 2015 desi Calender Giveaway

And the winners for desi Calender 2015 are     Dear readers thanks a lot for overwhelming response to the  desi Calender 2015 Giveaway. I can not thank all you who participated in the giveaway, shared it on their social media like Twitter and Facebook.   As the Rafflecopter giveaway ends, as per promise the time to declare the winners for the 2015 desi Calender with pictures clicked by yours truly.   Some of the readers were very helpful in spreading the contest and it got shared more than 100 times via blog and god knows how many times [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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A win and print in Better Photography Magazine

Nov 152014
 
A win and print in Better Photography Magazine

  Happy happy: One of my pictures in Better Photography Magazine   My Kerala Trip continues to surprise me, A few months ago I mentioned that one of my pictures clicked in Kerala received  Honorable Mention in Better Photography magazine in a photography contest with the theme ” Beaches” and was printed in the magazine. I was as happy as a small kid and decided to try my luck again and again, lady luck smiled again and one of my pictures won first prize in a contest themed ” Patterns”, in Better Photography magazine.  This time again the good folks at [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Kerala Blog Express is Back

Nov 112014
 
Kerala Blog Express is Back

Kerala Blog Express Season 2   I am happy and sad at the same time, happy because Kerala Blog Express is back in season 2,  inviting travel bloggers from around the world to come and experience God’s Own Country in  a customized Volvo bus from South to North of Kerala. So why I am sad ???  Let me shed a tear or two first, on remembering the good old days when I met some of the most awesome fellow travelers from around the world. I have made some friends for life and we still stay in touch with each other [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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desi Traveler 2015 Calendar Giveaway

Nov 012014
 
desi Traveler 2015 Calendar Giveaway

 2015 Calendar give away for readers, Facebook Fans  and Twitter followers   Dear Readers the annual desi Traveler Calendar give away is back. Not that it has been running for years, but considering that desi Traveler blog with the current name is only 2 years old, the giveaway has been around for 50% of the life of the blog. OK enough of juggling with statistics to prove a point let us straight go to the 2015 Calendar giveaway for readers of desi Traveler. To get your own personalized desi Calendar 2015 all you need to do is browse through [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Guess Where Contest

Oct 032014
 
Guess Where Contest

  Guess Where  is this beautiful palace Your’s truly was busy last few weeks traveling both for fun as well as for work, now as for me Work is also fun sometimes the boundaries are a bit blurred.  So today I give you couple of pictures of my travels while I work on a detailed post about one of the places I visited. This is a very unique fairy tale type location and the bold colors should give away where it is.  But if you can pin point the exact place I will send you a large print of [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Happy World Photography Day : A Picture from Kerala

Aug 192014
 
Happy World Photography Day : A Picture from Kerala

  The Kerala Picture that got me in Better Photography Magazine Today is world photography day, a day to celebrate photographers. Although I am not much of a photographer, I sure am one lucky photographer, now and then I am lucky enough to click a good picture.  Recently on my visit to Kerala, as a part of Kerala Blog Express, I clicked some pictures of Fishermen in Kerala and submitted some of them to the Better Photography Magazine for a contest ”  By the Beach”. Soon one of the pictures was selected for honorable mentions and I received a call from the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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My Travel Wishlist for Beautiful Oman

Jul 092014
 
My Travel Wishlist for Beautiful Oman

Beautiful, Magical, Mystical & Modern Oman Marhaban! Let us take some rugged mountains that are older than time, climb  forts that have seen history changing battles, watch soothing greenery emerging from a deep Wadi, (valley) get surprised by a spring of fresh water coming out of rocks, transforming the color of landscape from sandy to green, and hiding in the deep ravines wildlife that knows how to thrive, watch the merging of blue sky in deep blue ocean, and now add a liberal dose of mystical stories you read in Arabian Nights and you get the country I so wish [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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