As we travel for a month continuously and carry just enough clothes for a week at best, doing our laundry everywhere becomes important. I do carry soap and the reetha (soap nuts) seeds for washing my sarees, but still we keep exploring options in every location to get […]
Since July 2017, we have been doing only short trips of nearby districts for ShikshaDaan as we had a lot of unfinished work at Delhi and we were also awaiting our 80G exemption. We got the 80G exemption in Feb 2018 and we immediately did our strategy meeting […]
All through my growing up years, I thought I should have a penpal. A “penpal” was someone who lived in a different country or a very far off place in your own country and you become friends by writing letters to each other. Penpals met sometimes but mostly […]
Yesterday, we took a Jet Airways flight to return to Chennai from Indore. It happened to be a hopping flight, so we were on the plane for nearly four hours. One of the crew members (probably the team leader) was the same person who was on the flight […]
…. Lush Green Landlocked Languid Laos. Spent an interesting month in Laos. Learnt about their culture, food, made new friends, saw historical sights, found connections to India and for the first time, managed to be here before our Prime Minister Mr.Modi. Last year when we went to Mongolia, […]
On June 5th we started from Hotel Deepali, at Sagar, on our way to Hyderabad. The route we follow is Sagar-Narsinghpur-Chindwara-Saoner-Nagpur-Adilabad-Nirmal-Hyderabad. This is a picturesque roadtrip especially the ghat sections in Chindwara. Beautiful forests and after some rains, its all green. We started at 5.10 am and would […]
We left on Saturday from Gurgaon for Hyderabad enroute to a longer trip…. The fun of a road trip is just unmatched. I read on Facebook about a website named “Ghumakkad” which loosely translates to “inveterate traveller” and thought that sums us up !! My dad, his mom […]
We started from Manish’s place at 11 am and were hoping to be home at Hyderabad before 6 easily. At 12.20 we had covered about 70 Kms and heard a “pop” like sound, and thought we must have gone over some cardboard piece… A few minutes later we […]
Dates we were in Kullu – May 1 to May 5. Hotel – HPTDC property Hotel Sarvari. The location is great. Huge “mela” ground or playground right in front of the hotel. Rooms – Again, this hotel has large airy rooms. We stayed in the Sarvari Suite and […]
Dates we were in Mandi – April 19 to 23 Hotel – Visco Resorts, 3 Kms before the Mandi bus stand. Rooms – One word for the resort – “stunning”. We stayed in the family suite which is basically two rooms with attached bathrooms and a large balcony. […]
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This blog is just a small collection of my experiences of more than 30 years of travel throughout South Asia. May those who stumble across this site find some joy and hopefully some insights into this amazing part of the world.
