Incredible India

India Travel Blog with travel tips, stories, food and pictures of travel around India. There is so much to experience in Incredible India that one life time is just not enough. No wonder we Indians believe in reincarnation so that we can visit India again and again to cherish the billion things India has to offer from  Ghats of Varanasi to beaches of Goa and the Colors of Rajasthan to the fragrance of spices in Gods own country Kerala.  Even after visiting more than 22 states in India, I have not seen even the tip of iceberg. I continue to explore my country and share my experiences of Incredible India on my family travel blog from India as we explore one place at a time by road, by trains and by flying to the various corners of India. Come join me on this incredible Journey in Incredible India from the the snow clad Ladakh in Himalayas to the french enclave of Pondicherry in south as we go covering India from festivals to food and everything in between.

Incredible India

A Night At Taramati Baradari Resort Hyderabad

Sep 072012
 
A Night At Taramati Baradari Resort Hyderabad

A Night spent at Taramati Baradari Resort Hyderabad with our kids Once your kids start going to school you have to plan your holidays as per their school calendar. For some time our elder one has been going to school even on Saturdays thus we were not able to take any jaunts with kids that we typically do now and then. So a few weeks ago I decided to go for a short vacation but just did not have time or energy to go on a long drive, so we decided to stay for a night at the Taramati [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Kondapur Botanical Garden With GHAC Nature

Sep 032012
 
Kondapur Botanical Garden With GHAC Nature

  A Morning Visit to Kondapur Botanical Garden with GHAC Nature I had participated in the  first bird watching trip organized by GHAC long back, it was in Kondapur botanical garden, Hyderabad, at that  point the botanical garden was not in very good shape due to extreme summer.  Sunbird Enjoying Nectar I was pleasantly surprised when we visited again with GHAC nature in the morning. Monsoons have changed the complexion of the gardens. It was lush green every where sprinkled with colorful flowers, and the little pond in the corner was full of water with common Coots and little [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Dasha-Avatara The Dance Of The Sands

Aug 192012
 
Dasha-Avatara The Dance Of The Sands

Dr.Anupama Kylash- The Danseuse  I was raised on a healthy staple diet of mythological sagas by my grandparents, which was later supplemented by Uncle Pai’s “Amar Chitra Katha”. Then came the idiot box with a single mission to dumb down the viewers and yours truly meekly obliged. Hence slowly losing touch with all the stories one has heard and read as a child, reaching to the point that one forgot that the original superman was our very own Hanuman who crossed the ocean many millennia ago in search of the beloved of lord Rama.   Any ways enough of my [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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View From Our Balcony II

Aug 112012
 
View From Our Balcony II

I have been travelling for some time both for business and for clicking pictures. All this while I have been so busy that did not have time to look out of balcony of our apartment. Is is not surprising that one travels to far off places to click pictures but totally ignores beauty around us?  Today morning was a especially beautiful day and I decided to stand in balcony for some time with my camera. Hyderabad has been blessed with really good monsoon this year and the surroundings to our apartment has changed totally. The Sufi Shrine The Blooms In Garden [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Bidar Fort and Gurudwara Nanak Jheera

Aug 102012
 
Bidar Fort and Gurudwara Nanak Jheera

Bidar in Karnataka is a sleepy, dusty town about 140 KM from Hyderabad. It has 2 claims to fame one is a visit by Guru Nanak Dev the founder of Sikhism about 500 years ago and other is as the former capital of the Bahmani Sultans, one of the first Islamic dynasties in Deccan. This post we will visit Bidar Fort and Gurudwara Nanak Jheera near the Bidar Fort. Gurudwara Nanak Jheera in Bidar The legend is that first Sikh Guru Nanak Dev visited Bidar at a time when it was suffering through severe drought and on request of [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Essence Of Old Hyderabad-III

Aug 052012
 
Essence Of Old Hyderabad-III

A Visit To Charminar in the Old City of Hyderabad during Ramzan   Saif  Poses in Front of Charminar Today we visited Charminar Once again to soak in the festivities for the holy month of Ramazan. Every single inch around Charminar was decorated and the few inches that were not decorated were occupied for walking. While I will write in details I am posting this picture of Saif Ali who wanted me to post it asap so that he can watch it on this blog. When I reached my office next day I met an NRI who  hails from [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Tall Shiva Idol at Surendrapuri near Bhongir Fort

Jul 212012
 
Tall Shiva Idol at Surendrapuri near Bhongir Fort

Shiva Idol at Surendrapuri Museum of Mythology There is a tall Shiva idol on NH8 on the way to Gurgaon from Delhi, it is a landmark and I have seen it many times. I am not sure how  high it is but always use to wonder if there are other that high statues of Shiva. Some time back I visited Surendrapuri, Yadagirigutta, Andhra Pradesh near Bhongir Fort and there I photographed this another very tall Shiva idol. Not sure which one is tallest or other such tall statues of Shiva or other Hindu gods in the the country. The specialty of this [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Beautiful Sky

Jul 212012
 
Beautiful Sky

  This Sky and clouds  were captured from my cellphone on the Airport highway in Hyderabad. This is the beautiful sky I captured on my mobile few days back in Hyderabad…. I have never seen such beautiful sky and had to stop my car to capture it. Please click on picture to see a bigger version of the picture. Like they say the best camera is the one in your hand, for some reason I am finding the pictures I like the most are the ones that I am clicking from my cell phone. I have not retouched this picture [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Colors Of Bonalu-A Unique Festival of Telangana India

Jul 092012
 
Colors Of Bonalu-A Unique Festival of Telangana India

Bonalu A Unique Festival Of Telangana Colors mesmerize me, be it the rainbows formed due to interfaith hugging of green and vermilion gulal with purple water sprouting out of pichkaris on holi or the rainbow formed in the puddles in monsoon. Little Girl With Bonalu Hyderabad is one of the most colorful cities in the country perhaps rivaled only by Jaipur, which obviously has a bias towards pink. But Hyderabad has no such bias it loves all its colors the black burqas of Khatoons from the old city to the Ochre dupattas and multicolored mangal sutras of Marwari ladies shopping in begum [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Celebrating A Birthday

Jul 012012
 
Celebrating A Birthday

Birthday Celebration Of TCPC Well this was little different birthday celebration, some time back Desi Traveler joined an online meetup group called TCPC or Twin Cities Photography Club. The club aims to promote photography in the twin cities of Secundrabad and Hyderabad. I have been joining some of the photo walks for last some months, my first one being to the Botanical Garden in Kondapur, then to Golconda Fort and also to Old City Of Hyderabad.  Each of the Walk has been very memorable and a good learning experience for me. This walk today was to celebrate the first [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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