When I started bird watching as a hobby back in 2017, my primary source of information and motivation was the many Facebook groups. Our country has a wide variety of beautiful species and seeing all those pictures from different parts of the country was truly inspiring. However, one particular species grabbed my attention — The …
Since 2016 there have only been a few weekends that Pooja and I have spent at home. We discovered this new passion for travel. We explored a lot of places in almost a year and half of travel we had quite some adventures as well. Then we had to stop as our daughter was on …
As I slid into the driver's seat at 4:30 in the morning, I could not believe that we are finally on our way to Wayanad. A month back we had started planning for this trip and 2 weeks back our chances of making this trip seemed so slim. Hectic work schedules and us falling sick …
Travel is one of the greatest stress busters, that I have ever experienced and that too there is nothing like a trip out into the wild. My wife and I never missed an opportunity to travel until our little angel arrived in 2018. Since then we were on a break from travel and was patiently …
Let me take my readers today to a hamlet called Talakadu. Once a capital city of the Ganga dynasty, now reduced to a 'heap of sand'. There are many legends, folklore and mysteries surrounding Talakadu. Legend says that aeons ago in the Jungles of this area lived two brothers (some stories say they were demons, …
It was a fine Sunday morning. The past week Bangalore witnessed intermittent spells of rains and the the days were overcast and gloomy. In the past few weeks some of my birding trips to the lake was cut short by spells of rain. Today was different. There was a cool breeze and the sun was …
On the 7th of May 2017, I woke up to the morning rays hitting me through the windows of an Airplane. I looked down and saw waves, brown in color and not the usual shades of blue. It took me a few seconds to realize that I was looking at the sand dunes and not …
It was peak summer time in Kerala, but I was determined to check out one item from my Bucket list and that was to witness 'Thrissur Pooram' in all its glory. Our Journey this time was on the chariots of Indian Railways. For an overnight journey I believe trains are the best option if you …
Continue reading In God’s Own country, at the People’s own festival – Thrissur Pooram
It was the first day of a long weekend. While most of Bangalore was still slumbering, my wife and I had packed our bags and by 4AM we had hit the roads. This time our destination was a small hamlet somewhere in the State of Andhra Pradesh called Gandikotta. Known as 'The Grand Canyon of India', …
It took almost 1.5 years and three visits for me to finally pen down an article on Jungle Retreat. The first trip we made was in January 2016, where we encountered a tiger while on a trek, the next trip was in December 2016, again we were on the trek when we all heard a …
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