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  • Pench & Tadoba National Parks

    She sat down on the banks of the water body and we also sat there watching her. This time there was no jostling for sighting since we were on open ground and there was plenty of space for every one…
  • Gurudongmar Lake, North Sikkim

    Will visit Gurudongmar Lake driving my own vehicle or not at all. That was the promise, I made to myself, years back when I heard about the beauty of this lake and the gruelling journey to it.…
  • Ladakh on an Enfield Bullet

    Having upgraded to a bullet in 2016, I always wanted to travel along the Himalayas. After months of planning, the dream finally came true in June 2018. A friend of mine joined my from Mumbai for the…
  • Frugal holidaying tips

    The other day, a friend of mine was complaining about increasing holiday expenses. A typical extended weekend holiday with family costs him around Rs. 60,000. Week-long holidays (during summer) costs…
  • Trek to Hampta Pass, Himalayas

    At about 5pm on 16-Jan, I got an email: "Your friend has added you for a trek". It seemed like yesterday when the four of us (My wife and I plus my friend and her wife) were discussing how we could…
  • Tripping in Sikkim...

    Sometime in late 2015 while on a work trip, my host had asked me in a gathering, “what do you do beyond your work life?” I had no answer to the conundrum at that point of time. Aghast,…
  • Stelvio Pass in a Fiat 124

    Last month I was in Milan, Italy for a work trip, fortunately I had an weekend off which helped me film this video where I take the 124 spider Roadster to the Stelvio Pass which is the 3rd Highest…
  • Riding to the Alps & beyond

    A plan that was nearly 10 years in the making, finally came to fruition. No kidding, ever since we my friend had moved to the Netherlands for his graduate degree in 2008 and had sent pics of the great…
  • To Spiti in a Skoda Kodiaq

    The dream of driving in the Himalayas became more distant. That's why when the opportunity presented itself in the form of the Kodiaq Expedition, I really wanted to do it. Convincing two bosses was…
  • Ladakh, the wilder one

    We weren't up there because it is a delightful side trip. We were up there because the day before, or was it two days before, my memory fades, I lost power on the uphill climb just after kothi, as…
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