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  • Phang Nga Bay & Phi Phi Island

    A successful trip will make you think about next trip. This happened to me several times and this time it was no exception. Me, wife and 6 year old son completed one week Dharmashala-Kullu-Manali…
  • Cycling on the Manali-Leh road

    It's not very often in life that you get something like a mid-life crisis, but most of us get hit by this phenomenon at least once in our lifetimes I suppose. For me, the latest one happened quite…
  • The Rare Pale Tiger from Nilgiri

    I must have visited Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve 50 times over the last few years. This was yet another trip. Had a quick lunch. Finished packing in 15 minutes. Fuel, air checked and filled. Cameras,…
  • Exploring Bhutan in a Figo

    Kuzuzangpo La !! The thirst to travel in a nomadic soul is difficult to satiate. Wherever you go, it somehow becomes a part of you in some way or the other. That is why it is important to travel and…
  • Lake Tahoe, Yosemite & SFO

    This was more of a surprise and last minute trip to the West Coast. There was a conference near SFO for 2 days and things got approved at the last minute. So the plan was to attend the conference…
  • West Sikkim in an EcoSport

    There are 2 kinds of people, one who loves the sea and the other who loves the mountain. I can definitely say I am the second kind. I have been to the Himalayas numerous times, but everytime I visit…
  • 5 Days, 3 States, 2345 km

    We (me, my sister Prakriti, her two boys and our beloved Gina - the yellow & white ZDi+ Brezza ) had our last trip to the hills in June'16 and it was already September. 90 days of this boring , mechanical…
  • Trail-Riding in Achankovil

    A couple of days after my previous ride (Bajaj CT100B: 850 km ride from Trivandrum to Valparai) the familiar feeling of restlessness that creeps in when you do a boring 9 to 6 job had started to come…
  • Chernobyl: Forgotten by time

    This was a trip I did in July 2017, but got around to writing a travelogue only now. I did 2 more trips even before this which I wanted to write travelogues for too, but didn't get around to doing…
  • Kolkata to Goa in a Swift

    Yes, Kolkata to Goa was a sudden plan that my wife and I decided upon few months before the Pujas. Since schools remain closed during Durga puja in Kolkata, my wife and son did not have any issues…
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