The ensuing thoughts are based on my visit to the popular destination Solang late in the spring last year. Having visited Manali on numerous occasions serving varied purposes, it was only then when the long cherished wish to experience its…
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Category: Himachal Pradesh, Travels
Tags: adventure, Bara Banghal, Beas, Deodar, Himachal, Himalaya, Kothi, Kullu, Manali, Palchan, Photography, Pirpanjal, Rohtang, Solang, travel, Valley, Vashishth
As I begin to pour my thoughts down concerning a brief holiday-stopover at the notable forests of Jhandidhar, I am nearly getting a feeling that I might be doing injustice to the beauty and inimitability associated with this location. As…
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Category: Travels, Uttarakhand
Tags: Almora, Ayarpani, Binsar, Chitai, Garhwal, Himalaya, Himalayan, Jhandidhar, Kumaon, Mahadev, Nanda Devi, Panorama, travel, Uttarakhand
As we were heading to Chakrata in the spring of 2013, an Information Board by the highway, near Herbertpur, announced the location of an Asokan Rock Edict at Kalsi still a few kilometres ahead. Honestly speaking, none of us had…
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Category: Travels, Uttarakhand
Tags: Ashoka, ASI, Asoka, Buddhism, Chakrata, Dakpathar, Dehradun, Herbertpur, Kalsi, Maurya, Rock Edict, Tons, Uttarakhand, Yamuna
The Himalayan state of Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand is the most perfect setting to experience the deific relationship between the extremities of beauty and grandeur. For me, the chance to shadow-walk the established ancient trade route arteries of Kumaon division, in…
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Category: Travels, Uttarakhand
Tags: Almora, Bageshwar, Berinag, Bindar, Chaukori, Garhwal, Hill, Himalaya, KMVN, Kumaon, Munsiyari, Munsyari, Nanda Devi, Panchachuli, Pithoragarh, Rajrambha, travel, Trishul, Uttarakhand, Vijaypur
The inchoate beams of the sun, next morning, unveiled some more features as well as divine aspects of the holy snow-clad screen. With the morning light producing silhouettes over the gleaming icy pinnacles, the awakening of senses reverberated with the…
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Category: Travels, Uttarakhand
Tags: Badrinath, Chaukhamba, Gangotri, Garhwal, Great Himalayan Range, Himalaya, Himalayan, Kandoliya, Kedarnath, Khirsu, Kumaon, Kyunkaleshwar, Neelkanth, Pauri, Tourism, travel, Trip, Trisul, Uttarakhand