Birthplace of Hanuman and Temples Of Hampi

Sep 212012
 
Birthplace of Hanuman and Temples Of Hampi

Hiking To The Birth Place of Hanuman Near Hampi The Birthplace of Hanuman Temple This is the third post on Hampi with TCPC As we were staying on the Kishkindha side of Tungabhadra, day one was dedicated to exploring the various temples in the area. This part is called Anegundi and is believed to be the capital of empire before Hampi rose to prominence.  Is it not amazing how many towns and cities have had their share of being the capital of a mighty empire and you had to fight mighty armies to reach them, and yet today they [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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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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Cactus Flowers-Blooms of the thorns

Jun 162012
 
Cactus Flowers-Blooms of the thorns

A marvel of nature-Cactus Flowers Very often I have been accused of being surrounded by thorns and branded somebody who is surrounded by inauspicious things not recommended by Vastu at all because of my love for growing Cacti. With all due respect to the traditions and the intelligence of people who brand me “Thorny” (thank god T is not silent here) let me give a reason for my love for Cacti and Cactus flowers is only one of them. We all know Desi Traveler loves to travel and travel is a demanding mistress, thus at times I would be away [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Rediscovering Goa !- My Blog Post About Top 5 things to do in Goa

May 242012
 
Rediscovering Goa !- My Blog Post About Top 5 things to do in Goa

What To Do In Goa:  Family Friendly Itinerary While surfing on a bright sunny day I met Kyra the Sunshine girl from Lakme`, I immediately took fancy for her urbane charm and intelligence. She was looking ideas to spend the summers in Goa, and I was looking for a good reason to go to Goa, so this was a match made in heavens or Ram Milaee Jodee as they say(take your pick of your favorite saying). St Xavier’s Church In Old Goa 6666 After exchanging our numbers we decided to meet on the sunny beaches of South Goa.  Needless to [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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A Visit to Medak Church, Fort and Pocharam Sanctuary

Apr 032012
 
A Visit to Medak Church, Fort and Pocharam Sanctuary

Road Trip to Medak From Hyderabad With GHAC The Medak Cathedral The joys of travel are hard to explain, words cannot capture the thrill of discovering new lands, photos struggle to do justice to the bounty of nature. Yet here I am trying to write a blog about an incredible travel. I guess the next best thing to travel to distant lands is to write and share the stories of falling in love again and again with the places one discover. I specially enjoy driving trips as they give me both flexibility and control not only on the destination [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Half Day In Hong Kong

Feb 252012
 

desi Goes for Half Day Tour of Hong Kong What is it with travel that makes you addicted? Is it the new places you discover? Or is it the small treasures you keep on accumulating from one flea market in a distant town to another? Or is it the bragging rights one gets for the number of vivid stamps on the passport? Or is it the collage of photos clicked by strangers for you that gives one high that can beat the evening tipple? Well, I guess it is all or a mixture of all of them.  For me [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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How GPS Saved Us From Cheating

Jan 272012
 

We decided to go and welcome 2012 in Coorg in Karnataka. I wrote about the same in my earlier posts. This post is less about the trip and more about how we almost got cheated by the cab driver. Since we live in Hyderabad and Coorg is much closer to Bangalore, I requested a dear friend Vibhor to help me with cab booking, so that the cab can take us to Coorg and stay with us for the rest of trip and drop us back to the airport after 4 days. Vibhor was kind enough to book a cab [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Low Tolerance Airlines

Jan 252012
 

As if charging 200 Rs for a stale sandwich is not enough, the so called low cost airlines have now stooped to level of throwing full fare paying passengers from plane for not giving way to the pilot. Yes I am talking about the incident that happened on Indigo airlines  last week http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Pilot-offloads-passenger-for-saying-get-lost/articleshow/11609050.cms Is this not strange the passenger was not  drunk, did not threatened anybody, did not possessed any weapons or banned substances and even offered an apology to the Pilot on  discovering that the pilot is upset because he was not given the right of way. So [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Wild Elephants of Nagarhole National Park

Jan 152012
 
Wild Elephants of Nagarhole National Park

Attack by Wild Elephants of Nagarhole National Park In the last post I wrote about the cute baby elephant that we saw playing  with a cloth at the elephant camp in Coorg. Next we went to see Wild Elephants of Nagarhole national park. In this post let me write about our experience on seeing 2 wild elephants in the wild in Nagarhole National park in Karnataka. This trip was also part of our Coorg leg of the journey and we took the car to the Nagarhole, inside the core area of the park solitary human vehicles are not welcome and [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Desi Doughnuts-An Indian Sweet discovered

Nov 042011
 
Desi Doughnuts-An Indian Sweet discovered

A Sweet Desi Discovery on a highway to Nagpur- Indian and 100% Desi Doughnuts Some time ago I traveled to Pench National Park with a group of travel enthusiasts about wildlife thanks to GHAC or Great Hyderabad Adventure Club. While I will definitely write more in detail about the trip this particular post is about the Desi Doughnuts that I discovered on the way to Nagpur. We could not get confirmed tickets for a train to Nagpur which is the nearest big town to start the journey towards Pench, Sunanda our fearless leader booked us on an overnight Volvo bus [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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