I am always thrilled to come home to lovely surprises. And this is precisely what had happened last week after I returned home from a nearly fortnight-long work-related travels – a pile of travel books that are patiently waiting to…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: Book, coffee table, guide, Himachal, Himalayas, himanshu khagta, Kaza, khagta, life in spiti, mountains, Photography, review, Shimla, Spiti, travel book, winters
Ever since I sojourned on the wondrous and fascinating Andaman and Nicobar group of islands early this season, I have been wanting to know more about the history and geography of these tiny bits of lush green landmasses that are…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: andaman, bengali, Book, car nicobar, Green Islands of the Andamans and Nicobars, guide, havelock, India, meena gupta, nicobar, notionpress.com, port blair, protiva gupta, review, Talk, travel
A first for me on bNomadic, this time through this post I’ll share my views on two books – The Last Time I Saw Tibet and Mahatirtha Ke Antim Yatri – which are, in fact, translation of the same book…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: adventure, bimal dey, Book, China, Dalai Lama, Gangtok, Kailash Mansarovar, Lhasa, mahatirth ke antim yatri, Nepal, review, Sikkim, the last time i saw tibet, Tibet, Travelogue
As apparent from the title and book-cover itself, the book The Lost World of Ladakh is a collection of century-old photographs of the trans-Himalayan terrain of Ladakh. Tastefully captured by a talented amateur photographer, Claude Rupert Trench Wilmot who was…
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Category: Books, Talks and Rants
Tags: bates, Book, expedition, harman, Hemis, Himalayas, Karakoram, Kashmir, Kullu, Ladakh, Leh, review, the lost world of ladakh, Tibet, trade route, wilmot, yarkand
Located right in the middle of a forested hillside of Jhaltola in Kumaon Himalayas, the Misty Mountains Retreat is a boutique hideaway that offers uninterrupted panoramic views of some of the loftiest peaks of the Great Himalayan Range. Elegantly crafted…
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Category: Hotels and Homestays, Talks and Rants, Travels, Uttarakhand
Tags: Almora, Blog, Chaukori, gangolihat, Himalayas, jhaltola, Kumaon, lamkeshwar, misty, misty mountains, Pithoragarh, retreat, travel, Trip, Uttarakhand