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Cologne Diaries, Europe, Expat Life, Germany, Outside India, Photo Essays, Travel Extras, Trip Photos

Bonn Cherry Blossom love

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

March 31, 2022
Abhaneri Stepwell in Dausa Rajasthan
India, Photo Essays, Rajasthan, Travel Extras, Trip Photos, West

Beauty in symmetry of Abhaneri Stepwell

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

April 5, 2021
the diksam plateau of socotra island
Middle East, Outside India, Yemen

How I ended up on the Socotra island

I first came to know of the Socotra island when I was in school. A brilliant TV commercial featuring the […]

April 12, 2020
Diksam plateau in Socotra
Middle East, Outside India, Photo Essays, Travel Extras, Trip Photos, Yemen

Memories of Socotra, one of the remotest travel destinations in the world

“It is not down in any map, True places never are” – Herman Melville. This is completely applicable to Socotra […]

April 11, 2020
#SriLanka #HortonPlainsNationalPark #SriLankatravelblog #Travelbloggerindia #SriLankatourism #World'sEnd
Asia, Outside India, Sri Lanka

To the World’s End

Horton Plains, with the highlight of the World’s End, is one of the best side trips from the tea hill […]

February 13, 2020
#SriLanka #HortonPlainsNationalPark #SriLankatravelblog #Travelbloggerindia #SriLankatourism #World'sEnd
Asia, Outside India, Sri Lanka

Wild beauty of Horton Plains

The dramatic precipice of the World’s End is located halfway of a 9 kilometers hiking route through the Horton Plains […]

February 12, 2020
#Dambullacavetemple #dambullatravelblog #Travelbloggerindia #Travelblog #Srilankatravelblog #Srilankatourism
Asia, Outside India, Sri Lanka

Painted caves of Dambulla

One of my most beautiful memories of Sri Lanka is of the painted cave temple of Dambulla. I liked the […]

February 8, 2020
India, North, Uttar Pradesh

The iconic Taj Mahal and all you need to know about it

The access to the Taj Mahal (at least the one we took) was so horrible that by the time we […]

January 5, 2020
a woman on the agra highway
India, North, Uttar Pradesh

A winter road trip to Agra

My first trip to the Taj Mahal happened some years back when on a weekend my daughter and I ventured […]

January 4, 2020
#travelbloggerindia #uttarpradeshtourism #itimaduddaulahtomb #offbeatplacesinagra #travelblogindia #travelblogagra
India, Uttar Pradesh

Itimad-ud-Daulah’s Tomb: The jewel box of Agra

On a sunny afternoon of 1893, an English archaeologist, Edmund William Smith from the Archaeological Survey of India stares at […]

January 3, 2020
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