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After considering different options, we finally finalized on Cambodia. The initial plan was to do Vietnam also along. However since that may make the trip longer than one week, it was dropped. Since…

There are more than 200 bird species recorded in Hampi. The main draw is the endemic and vulnerable Yellow-throated Bulbul which loves the rocky terrain of Hampi. We were also lucky to spot Indian…

This Saturday, a couple of us BHPians, me and sunilch took off for a loosely coupled ride to Lavasa. I say loosely coupled because we were not together throughout the ride. Both of us rode at our…

We finally settled on a road trip through Austria, Slovenia, and the Dolomites region of northern Italy as our destination. The convenience of Schengen and the road network in these countries meant…

My wife and I have this crazy habit of going to lesser-known places for trips. We both hate crowded places. But Berthierville was not a place born out of my research for 'not so crowded place'. In…

15 Families, 15 EcoSports, 1 destination and 70 hairpin bends. You read that right! 70 hairpin bends are what you need to negotiate through to reach Kolli Hills - which grimly translates into 'Mountains…

Parsons Valley Retreat(PVR) is this quaint little home stay located in isolated catchment areas of Nilgiris (a few kms from sandynulla). Over the last few years, it was part of a restricted area of…

Starting a new thread since I can't seem to find others (mods please do merge if any exist). My wife, 10 year old son and I will be traveling to Kolkata from Bangalore. We have generally been…

As soon as we came to know about the Valley of Flowers, it was on our bucket list. This place can be visited from May to November. However, there are only a couple of months where you would see the…

This is a tale from the time when my wife and I were living in Connecticut (CT), USA. A friend of mine used to live in Milford, CT, by the sea. His home was very close to a beach named Silver Sands…