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Guest Posts, India, North, Photo Essays, Travel Extras, Trip Photos, Uttarakhand

Valley of Flowers Photo Essay

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

May 1, 2022
#uttarkhandtourism #haridwar #travelbloggerindia #travelblogindia #harkipauri
India, North, Photo Essays, Travel Extras, Trip Photos, Uttarakhand

Haridwar and the beauty of chaos

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

April 30, 2022
India, North, Photo Essays, Travel Extras, Trip Photos, Uttarakhand

The charming nirvana of Rishikesh

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

April 29, 2022
India, North, Photo Essays, Travel Extras, Trip Photos, Uttarakhand

Introducing Rishikesh and Haridwar

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

April 28, 2022
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
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