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Kerala Tales
When your flight lands in the runway admist cocunut grooves and banana plantations, when your drive to the hotel is along the Arabian coast line, you know for sure your in God’s own country. This is my first visit to Trivandrum, the place is serene, relaxed and you sure don’t want to come here on…
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On a spiritual route – (Bangalore & Puttaparthi) Part 1 of 3
Anticipating an extended weekend, we (my family) decided to visit puttaparthi (a small town in the Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh border) brought to fame by Baba’s Prashanthi nilayam ashram. We did a four day road trip from Chennai to Puttaparthi via Bangalore and back. Seven of us in a tempo traveller, it was a very comfortable…
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Going uphill , the darshan and more .. From the hills of holyness – Tirupathi (Part 3)
We planned to get up early morning by 4 am, but eventually after a long journey the day before we comfortably slept until five and started from the hotel to the Tirumala temple around 6 30am .. Before ascending the hill, the vehicles were checked in the toll gate and the luggages carried were scanned…
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From the hills of holyness – Tirupathi (Part 2 )
We reached Tirupathi on Saturday evening and decided on making the uphill journey happen the next day morning, due to lack of time and because of the heavy traffic that we saw on the road leading atop the hill. We booked a room at Hotel Bhimas Residency for that nights stay. After spending close to…
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From the hills of holyness – Tirupathi (Part 1)
It was during one of the weekends we decided to make the long pending Tirupathi trip materialize. It was a bright Saturday afternoon when mom, dad and I started from Chennai to Tirupathi. It is a five hour long journey by road and we had booked a cab, so that we could just sit back…
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Travel offers
My vacation is around the corner, in fact a real long one this time which might even last for over a month .. There are a number of trips being planned .. one with family and the other with a bunch of friends from university. These trips are indeed the fun part of my holidays…
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Up close and personal with the elephants
This was my first up close and personal encounter with elephants. Never before have I seen so many elephants of different sizes around me. There were almost couple of dozens of them. It was at the Dubare elephant camp at Coorg. This place was the highlight of our trip to Coorg during the summer of…
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The last evening in Jaipur – City palace and Rambagh palace
It was one of the evening that I was most looking forward to, not because it was our last day there I totally loved Jaipur. It was for the only reason that we were gonna dine at Rambagh palace that evening. What a way to end the trip 🙂 But before that we had planned…
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Le Meridien – Jaipur
We had almost a day left in Jaipur after our arrival from Ranthambore. This time over we had booked to stay in Le Meridien, Jaipur (it was a time when I was highly influenced by the hotel show in Travel channel 🙂 , so wanted to check out as many hotels as possible) The hotel…
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The Safari at Ranthambore
We started of with the safari right after our lunch at around 2pm . The canter arrived at Khem Villa . We were advised to carry a bottle of water and some warm clothing to protect us from the chills as the place starts getting really cold by the evening. After around 10mins we were…
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