Peacefully Loud & Violently Quiet – Renukaji, H.P.
Renukaji in Himachal Pradesh is a tourist destination with religious significance. The place is a scenic combination of a lake, a temple, an HPTDC hotel, a wildlife sanctuary, and all these are...
View ArticleWishful Riding – A Partial Reality!
Everyone who enjoyed the wishful Riding series would know what this means to me. This was an ever present dream, that itchy feeling which...
View ArticleWishful Riding – a Partial Reality – Baralacha La to Leh
I did not realize the importance of this place at the time of clicking this snap... Found out later that this was the place where the sindhu Darshan festival is held to comemorate and celebrate the...
View ArticleTwo Wheelin!! Uttranchal – Himachal – Uttranchal
Yuvraj Singh 22 years old, student and entrepreneur, Mohan Bisht 38 years old, banker and photographer, Gauri Rana 33year old, trekker and storyteller together...
View ArticleSangla…..Unexplored India
We have recently been to Sangla....Chitkool and Kalpa....... Sharing our experience of this exicting journey
View ArticleShimla to Kaza – A Road Review
On the way, you see some of the huge falls, portions of roads which have never seen two vehicles side-by-side ever, since their width can't accommodate them (ok ok.. poor joke, move on) , tall huge...
View ArticleKaza to Manali : A road less travelled
Many years ago, my wife read about a place called Lahaul-&-Spiti and somehow fancied the idea of going there. When the time came, we...
View ArticleHospitality in Inhospitable Spiti Valley – Part 1
I have been offline for quite some time and so much has happened on Ghumakkar! Looks like everyone has been busy travelling. Many interesting...
View ArticleHospitality in Inhospitable Spiti Valley – Part 2
In part 1, I talked about my journey to the Spiti Valley and the stay of two nights at the monastery of Tabo. As...
View ArticleA dream fulfilled!
After reaching Leh, detailed in the previous post, all we did was relax and rest. We had plans to ride to Khardung La the...
View ArticleJourney to the roof of the world
I just got back from the famous Delhi- manali-keylong-leh–kargil-dras-zozila-srinagar-patnitop-delhi highway and the writeup from bikerdude is really gr8. Atleast for me it would have...
View ArticleBanjara Orchard Retreat, Thanedar, Simla – Review
Our first stop on the ‘Chalo Kaza’ run was at a place called Thanedar, ahead of Simla. We had planned two stops before Kaza...
View ArticleIn the Villages and Towns of the Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh
These are some bits and pieces collected from the villages of Kangra Valley in Himachal Pradesh during my stay at Gaggal Airport, Kangra in...
View ArticleGlorious Jalori – A Ride to Remember
“Where are you from?” asked the unassuming bong in a pink half sweater. However disappointed I was with him, I had to answer, “From...
View ArticleSangla…. Unexplored India II
Since I was not able to complete my travelogue first time so it comes my second try…. So we started from Gurgaon and reached...
View ArticleBanjara Sangla Camp, Sangla, Himachal Pradesh – Review
Sangla, the quaint Himalayan village/town/valley is an over-deserving candidate for the travelogue that I was yet to write. But then between the ‘no-travelogue-at-all’ or...
View ArticleIn the Lap of the Apple Heartland – Narkanda (HP)
Bugged by the exasperating workload, we headed off to Shimla this weekend, to find solace, but only to bump into the whole of Delhi...
View ArticleChitkul, Sangla (Himachal) – A photo essay
While we were at Sangla, we were suggested to drive down to a small Himalayan village on Indo-China Border as a day outing. It...
View ArticleAmbitious Drive to Jalori Pass
Ambitious two day trip to cover Narkanda , Jalori Pass, around 1100 Kms in chilly weather of December 2009. Narkanda is at 2621 metres...
View ArticleA day beyond Shimla to Narkanda
One day we planned to visit Shimla and Kufri. So I started the journey from Ludhiana and my friends from Delhi. We met at...
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