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A Tree House in Wayanad Kerala- Hotel Review

Mar 222014
 
A Tree House in Wayanad Kerala- Hotel Review

Staying in a Tree House in Rain-forest in Kerala: Wayanad district We men are a little choosy when it comes to growing up. We choose very carefully the rare occasion when we like to act like grown up men. Most of our life we choose to remain boys, be it mama’s boys or reincarnation of Mowgli. There is a little bit of Mowgli in me who wants to climb trees, jump holding vines, chase squirrels, make faces at macaques sitting on a branch higher than me, and have my own personal sunset from my balcony in my own Tree House. On reaching [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Eco Volunteer Training at Kulgi Nature Camp

Feb 092014
 
Eco Volunteer Training at Kulgi Nature Camp

Next Batch of Eco Volunteer Training by Karnataka Forest Department   Update: The next batch is in May 2015 and is at Bhadra Tiger Reserve, you can read details here: Eco Volunteer Training Programme May 2015 batch After I attended the first batch of Eco Volunteer Training at Bandipur, I wrote about the same at length on desi Traveler. Regularly I receive emails from readers about the next batch. So here are the details for the next batches  happening in February and March of 2014. There are 2 batches commencing one on 23rd Feb 2014 and another on 2nd [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Top 10 Outdoor Adventure Travel Clubs In India: Biking, Trekking, Running, Mountaineering

Dec 272013
 
Top 10 Outdoor Adventure Travel Clubs In India: Biking, Trekking, Running, Mountaineering

Top 10 Outdoor Adventure  Travel Clubs In India for Biking, Trekking, Running, Cycling, Rock Climbing & Mountaineering  When I started trekking I always struggled for partners. Most of my friends wanted to travel but their idea of travel was to go to a touristy place, get drunk and play cards and may buy some souvenirs.  It was so difficult to find like-minded people who a lot of time I ended up backpacking on my own without anybody with me.  Today thanks to the power of internet connecting with like minded people are such a breeze.   But still, a lot [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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The Legend of the Gond King: The Pillars of Tadoba

Dec 092013
 
The Legend of the Gond King: The Pillars of Tadoba

  The Pillars of  Gond Kings of Tadoba:First Telecom Towers in World We were in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve and like everybody around us was looking for Tigers. The Tigers were busy looking for some shade and preferably some Sāmbhar in Shade. While continuing our search for the king of the Jungle I saw these pillars on one of the major arteries inside the national park and wondered what they are? Our guide shared a very interesting story about the pillars. You see before cell phones and phones were invented, in the time before time, this area around the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Video of Hatiyan Jhad or Elephant Tree: Biggest Baobab Tree India

Dec 062013
 

Video of the Biggest Baobab Tree of India: Hatiyan Jhad I hope you have read my post about the biggest Baobab tree in India, also known as Hatiyan Jhad or elephant tree. Here is a video of the same, taken from my cell phone.  The tree is enormous and has a circumference of  25 meters.   Here is the earlier post in which I have given details about the biggest Baobab tree in India and  also called Hatiyan Jhad and some pictures of the secret cave that is believed to be the former den of thieves who plundered wealth [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Hatiyan Jhad: The Biggest Baobab Tree in India

Dec 022013
 
Hatiyan Jhad: The Biggest Baobab Tree in India

Biggest Baobab Tree of India or Hatiyan Jhad: The Cave of 40 Thieves in Golconda Regular visitors to desi Traveler will remember my series on the Old Baobab tree in Nanakramguda. But our Baobab in Nanakramguda is a Baccha ( baby)  when you look at this enormous Baobab that was planted by wandering fakirs centuries ago in Golconda. This huge Baobab tree has a circumference of 25 meters and is almost impossible to photograph in one frame at close distance. This Baobab tree is considered to be the biggest in India and could be the oldest too. I have visited [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Sunset in Tadoba

Nov 082013
 
Sunset in Tadoba

Sunset in Tadoba: Stuck  We have a saying in North India, “Aasmaan Se Tapka, Khajoor main Atka”, losely translated it mean: “Fell from sky, but got stuck in the date palm tree”. The gist is that though you have fallen you are still high enough. This is the exact feeling I had when I clicked this picture in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve or TATR. The sun almost appears to be stuck in branches, hence my remembering ” Aasmaan Se Tapka, Khazoor main Atka”, what do you say? More posts in Tadoba series: Telia Tiger Cubs Also linking the same to [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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A Soap Foam like bug: Spittlebug

Nov 042013
 
A Soap Foam like bug: Spittlebug

Spittlebug: The Soap Foam Bug A few days ago I wrote about our visit to the Nature farm where they grow organic food and do not use any chemical pesticides. While walking on the farm I noticed a small foam kind of thing on one of the plants. It was as if somebody was washing clothes and dropped some soapy foam there at best or somebody had spit at worst.  As it was just below a wild flower it was looking rather out-of-place. I clicked a few pictures and was wondering what it could be. I remembered something called Foam [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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The Dark Knight Rises: A Bat In The Building

Oct 242013
 
The Dark Knight Rises: A Bat In The Building

The Dark Knight in our Building Foyer I was working on my  PC at home when my daughter announced ” Papa there is a Bat in the building foyer” Without thinking I replied ” Some kid must have left if , may be he will come back to take his Bat back” “Papa it’s not a Bat, it is real BAT”, she emphasized “hmm, must be a grown up kid then, if he is playing with a real Bat”, I mentioned “Papa you are not getting it, it is a real BAT, the one that flies in the night like [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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A Crimson Rose is not a rose but a Butterfly

Oct 182013
 
A Crimson Rose is not a rose but a Butterfly

A Butterfly called Crimson Rose I still remember  running after a Crimson Rose in the school garden and missing the recess bell. I never caught the butterfly and when I reached my classroom, I was late and the angry teacher asked me to go and stand outside Principle’s office. For me it was a blessing, as I just went back to the garden and started my chase again. If like me you too wonder where all the butterflies have gone, then blame the pesticides used in whatever sorry patches of scrubby greens are left in cities in name of [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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