This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi …. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
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 the friendship was over written letters. Now … Read more
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 when we went to Indore. Things started … Read more
Most of our friends know that in the month of September every year we travel. We invest lots of time not only in identifying the potential place of travel but also research extensively about the places of travel from multiple perspectives. Places of interest, budget for the entire tour, ease of travel to and within … Read more
…. 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, he went ahead of us and I … Read more
One of the extraordinary benefits of travelling is that you get to meet people across different sections of the society. From the Principal of a college to a Paanwala. From a teacher to a Taxiwala. From a father, a hand loom weaver who is keen to get his son educated to a Fruitwala. And you … Read more
We first met Thomas when we did the local sightseeing tour in Munnar, Kerala. Manoj, our navigator, took us to the Green Hotel in Chinnakanal owned and run by Thomas, at a distance of about two kms from Club Mahindra where we stayed. We wanted to eat our favorite Kerala food items such as Puttu, … Read more
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 have started by 5 am if the … Read more
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 and my mother-in-law are the others who … Read more
Almost the entire month of September this year we celebrated our silver anniversary in Mongolia, and Ulaanbataar is the capital of Mongolia. Of this month in Mongolia, about eight to nine days were in the capital Ulaanbataar, at a very popular hostel by the name of Zaya Guest House. Zaya is the name of the … Read more
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 heard a flapping sound and realised it … Read more