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Joshimath moments before the trek

Joshimath was very busy when we woke up the next morning. Being the gateway to Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib, the […]

May 5, 2022

The next morning we started before time from Rishikesh. Our final destination of the Valley of Flowers National Park was […]

May 4, 2022

As wonderful as the feeling was of my travel dream to the Valley of Flowers coming true, my experience at […]

May 3, 2022

Like most women, I love flowers, rainbows, and butterflies. Flowers play an integral role in the Indian culture and can […]

May 2, 2022

” I must have flowers, always and always”. – Claude Monet Founding father of French Impressionist painting, Monet had been […]

May 1, 2022

I met Naziya on the banks of the swift-flowing Ganges at Haridwar. She was a young village belle, who had […]

April 30, 2022

My Rishikesh sojourn was in June or July. Rain poured from the sky whenever it felt like and the humidity […]

April 29, 2022

Rishikesh and Haridwar…immediately my mind raced to the twin Gangetic town of Uttarakhand. The TV documentary on the growing religious […]

April 28, 2022

Spring officially brings an end to the winter and the whole planet comes alive again. The sun shines more boldly, […]

March 31, 2022

“A vast sheet of water, covered with lotuses in flower, amid which thousands of aquatic birds are sporting, at the […]

April 5, 2021