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This trip was done during the Christmas holidays of 2012. I was at home, Pollachi, a small town near Coimbatore. Usually, I try to spend this week with my parents and this time too, it was no different.…

This was my second trip to Ooty. The first time I went to Ooty in 2009, then I had gone as a tourist in a package tour for three days. This time I wanted to be the traveler; mainly focused on the…

Standing at the downstairs cafeteria having evening chai in Hyderabad, the idea of traveling to Ladakh was thrown in to the discussion. This was after reading the travelogue by Rohit Tunga in his…

Finally the White Tusker helps in fulfilling a dream for which he was born. When I booked the 4x4 Bolero LX in December 2011, my dream was to visit Ladakh in a 4x4 vehicle. It was fulfilled in June…

Its really amazing how people -who have mostly interacted online on the Team-BHP forum and possibly met in person only a couple of times for an hour or two at the Powai-mini-meet (Fortnightly mini-meet…

A week with excessive work pressure can only give weird ideas for a stress buster. What I did was to go on a drive to the Malnad region. This time it had to be solo drive, currently no rides permitted.…

It was sometime in 2011 when myself and few of my friends were in Kodaikanal and an ambitious plan to visit Leh-Ladakh in our beloved cars from Chennai was seeded. Initially it sounded like a crazy…

The sultry July sun played havoc with routine life. With temperature hovering around 50 Deg C, outdoor life was restricted to the minimum. Although the schools were closed for summer break, we didn't…

Three months, well by any standards that's a bit unfair on me to be tied down at home. I was itching for a drive. Growing up kids means you need to respect their schedules. Finally, I was granted…

Since childhood, I have never been so far from them. I spent 9 years in Delhi, and I would run off to the Himalayas to catch myself, as often as possible. I can still visualize the early morning mist…