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Chateau Garli – A Heritage Hotel For Luxury Travelers in Kangra Himachal Pradesh

Nov 202019

Chateau Garli -Where Heritage Greets Luxury Travelers On one of my road trips to Kangra, our guide mentioned would you like to visit Garli a heritage village? I was like ok let us check it out, and am I glad or what that I agreed to visit this almost abandoned yet charming village that was once the forte of Suds, the traditional merchant clan of Himachal Pradesh. This is when I first visited the Chateau Garli the lesser-known heritage village in Himachal Pradesh, that very few people visit. Travelers may not visit Garli in hordes but looking [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Himachal Pradesh, Night Photography, Resorts & Hotels Review, Travel TIPS Tagged with: Garli, heritage walk, Kangra, luxury Travel, swimming pool 8 Responses »

Mysore Heritage Walk & Coming Face To Face With History

Jun 172018

Discovering A Slice of History as I accidentally go on Mysore Heritage Walk There is an old saying “Even a small city in India has more history and culture than history textbooks.” What? There is no such saying? Good, then I can apply for a patent for the same! All the historical buildings, palaces, temples around us are taken for granted by us and look at them when one of our foreign friends remarks “Oh what a beautiful building”. Recently I was returning from Bandipur forests, and my friend dropped me in front of KSRTC bus stand, from where [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Karnataka Tagged with: heritage walk, Mysore, photo walks 14 Responses »

World Heritage Day Walk in Mehrauli with INTACH

Apr 202016

INTACH Heritage Walk in Mehrauli Archaeological Park April 18 is World Heritage Day, aka known as International Day for Monuments and Sites. So desi Traveler went on his own little jaunt with INTACH Delhi Chapter for a little heritage tour of Mehrauli Archaeological Park. Now this was not my first visit to Mehrauli, nor it will be last, for Mehrauli has more history per square meter than any other place in Delhi. And this history spans more than a thousand years from the Pre-Islam days in India to all the way to British times, all this you can cover in [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Delhi, Forts and Palaces Tagged with: baoli, heritage walk, INTACH, mehrauli, Qutub Minar, step well 16 Responses »

Gobindgarh Fort Amritsar

Jan 162016

Restoration of Gobindgarh Fort : A heritage reclaimed On all my previous visits to Amritsar, I wanted to visit Gobindgarh fort, but each time I was discouraged by anybody whom I asked for directions “ Gobindgarh Fort ? Wahan Kuch Nahi hai, Kya karoge waha ja kar” क़िला गोबिंदगढ़ ? वहां कुछ नहीं है क्या करोगे वहां जा कर Or there is nothing in Gobindgarh Fort , what will you do there ? And as a naïve tourist, who is happy to be see what he is shown I missed visiting Gobindgarh fort each time. But as I always [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Forts and Palaces, Punjab Tagged with: #tcbg_trips, Gobindgarh Fort, Guru Gobind Singh, heritage walk, Jallianwala Bagh 14 Responses »

Amritsar Heritage Walk – Amritsar Beyond Religion & Food

Jan 102016

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…]