Travel TIPS

Feb 262016
 
British Airways Wins hearts with an emotional campaign

A Bond That is Fuelled by Love    First a loving memory: I have always had a deep bond and touching memories for the British Airways as me and wife jee went to London and further in Europe in a British Airways flight and we had a jolly good time. Needless to say we were given a Royal treatment throughout the flight, with the head of cabin crew herself coming and greeting us during the course of our flight to London from Delhi. Now British Airways have flown to India for more than 90 years and has deep bond with flyers [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Feb 172016
 
The Lava V5 Phone so that you capture moments as they happen

  Never Miss A Shot with Lava V5 Camera Phone   When I started working I will invariably forget something, car keys one day, laptop some other day, and lunchbox on most days. So I developed a habit of making a mental checklist and ticking off items before stepping out. I don’t remember when the Mobile phone became integral part of the same and soon my mobile phone is the first thing I check before stepping out of home. Even if I am going just till the society gate to buy some milk I never forget the mobile phone. [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Feb 142016
 
A Visit To Mughal Garden Rashtrapati Bhawan Delhi

 Your Complete Guide To  Visiting Mughal Gardens Delhi Loverboy Shahzada Salim had just taken over from Zille Subhani, the throne of Mughal Empire when the British were setting foot on Indian Soil. The poor British were in the awe of the great Mughal Empire but slowly set up their foot in India, nibbling bits and pieces of India till the last of the Mughal Bahadur Shah Zafar was sent to Rangoon, in an exchange scheme with the ruler of Burma who was exiled in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra in India. Even after the hostile takeover of the Delhi throne, the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Feb 092016
 
desi Travel Digest January 2016

January 2016 Travel Digest – Edited & Curated by Indrani Ghose Dear readers, we are ready with our January 2016 desi Travel Digest, with some hand-picked blog posts from around the world. Continuing the tradition this month’s editor and curator for the digest is one of my favorite travel bloggers Indrani Ghose. Check these posts carefully chosen by Indrani from across the travel blogs that she reads and likes. I must say I am amazed and happy at the variety of the posts and so happy to meet some of the bloggers whom I have not read in the past.  So [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Jan 192016
 
One Night At Bangalore Airport

Bangalore Airport at Night Not in very distant past, I had to spend a night at Bangalore airport, not that I wanted to but I had to.  I was returning from Singapore, as I was on a sponsored trip by Tiger Air so they have booked me via Bangalore from where they fly to Singapore Changi Airport. I had a layover for 5-6 hours before my connecting flight.  Long story short I had an early morning flight from Bangalore or Bengalururro or Bengalorouo or whatever the polishitians politicians have named the garden city, either way, they have screwed up the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Jan 102016
 
Amritsar Heritage Walk - Amritsar Beyond Religion & Food

desi goes with Davinder Singh on Amritsar Heritage Walk This is my first Amritsar Heritage Walk and I am looking at a faint sliver of the sky gives me a weak smile as I stretch my neck to yogic dimensions, as my eyes go wide at all the heritage looking back at me. There is something historical all around me in these narrow bylanes of Amritsar, not the kind of history you find in textbooks but living, breathing, smiling, and unfortunately neglected and deteriorating heritage. I look up to intricately carved wooden balconies with designs from Shekhawati and Europe side [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Jan 072016
 
desi Travel Digest 2015

Favorite Travel Blogs of 2015 : A desi Travel Digest We may be late with our desi Travel digest for December 2015, but let me assure you the wait was worth it. For those who are yet to read monthly desi digest here is a quick update:  Monthly desi digest is a round up of my favorite travel blog posts from around the world, with a clear bias towards desi travel bloggers. So far I was using my discretion for the same but for the year end 2015 special I thought why restrict desi digest only to what I [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Jan 012016
 
How To Get Your 2015 Best Nine Images of Instagram Free

Follow up on the Instagram post : 2015 Best nine images  As I mentioned in my earlier post on Instagram, that I am taking my baby steps to learn Instagram, so I spent a good deal of time checking all my posts on Instagram to find the top 10 posts on Instagram by virtue of likes for the same.  It was not easy, as Instagram was slow as well as I had to keep a manual tab on the pictures. Guess what there is a much simpler way to do the same, with which I generated my top 9 pictures of 2015 on [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Jan 012016
 
January 2016 Calendar - Download Desktop Wallpaper

January 2016 calendar desktop wallpaper : Punjab de Sarson Ke Khet  Dear readers Happy New Year 2016 from your friendly neighborhood desi Traveler In January as well as December of 2015 I visited the granary of India, the land blessed by pious gurus whose blessings and teachings guide the valiant Sikhs, where the water of five rivers nurtures the golden Sarson ke Khet of Punjab. Indeed when you talk about Punjab ( Punj = 5, Aab = Water so Punjab = the land nurtured by of 5 rivers ) first thing that comes to mind is the golden-yellow Sarson ke Khet. That is exactly the theme [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Dec 312015
 
Most shared blog posts of 2015 on desi Traveler

  Which are the most shared  viral  blog posts of 2015 ? OK, ladies and gentlemen, traveler and tourists here is the customary good by post for 2015.  Not that I am a great believer in customary post but as we bid adieu to 2015 let me go back to 2015 and look at most shared travel blog posts of desi Traveler. By the readers. First of all let us understand what I mean by shared and viral posts: A post for me is shared or viral if it is shared more than 100 times, by readers or social network. [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]