There are few plans one make which no matter how much you try to materialize, always falls apart at the last moment. For three years, I planned for the
Umm.. why exactly do we travel? 🙂 After three nights in Thimphu, we’re travelling to a new place, Punakha! We were up and out early today: 9:30 is early enough,
After a long week of convincing my friends, our trek(comprising of three brave souls) to Kedarkantha finally began on 25/01/2017. It was supposed to be an easy trek suited
Considering one of my best road trips, I must admit that it was Nathula pass. Nathula pass which is located at Indo China border (eastern Himalayas – 4310 m above
My trek toward Khati, which is considered one among the backward and lastly inhabited villages in the lap of Himalayas was not an ordinary trip. After reading my previous articles
As I stand in the queue at the Drukair check-in counter, I realize how little I know about my destination, and I marvel at the luggage carts overloaded with goods
“Be still like a mountain, and flow like a great river.” A famous quote, After watching Kanchenjunga I understand what it mean. Almost i am 75 km away from that
WHY do we travel? 🙂 We had a slight glimpse of the world we’d come from, when we walked down from our room that morning, for breakfast. The TV in
WHY do we travel? 🙂 Not everyday do you wake up to such a view: https://www.instagram.com/p/BP64WuLAdF5/ Multiple times during the trip, I found myself being completely overwhelmed by Bhutan’s beauty:
This is a tale from last December. When three friends embarked on an epic trek to the lower Himalayas, despite a lot of pessimism from friends and family quoting that
Why do we travel? 🙂 The Bhutan trip was our attempt to get out and run away from a schedule, a routine, a time table. So when we heard BK’s
She has never read a fairytale, never seen a story book before. I kept wondering how will she imagine her life without these mundane tasks if not for a book?
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