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
Very often, our notion of the perfectness of a hill station collectively comprises the quality of the mountain-scape it offers to its visitors. In the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, the flavour of landscape switches to a newer angle with every…
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Category: Travels, Uttarakhand
Tags: Alaknanda, Badrinath, Buwakhal, Chaukhamba, Gangotri, Garhwal, Great Himalayan Range, Himalaya, Kedarnath, Khirsu, Kumaon, Lansdowne, Nayar, Pauri, Photography, Satpuli, travel, Uttarakhand
The year-end holiday window presented me with a much-needed opportunity to rekindle my affair with Himalayas. Fortunately, this time, my visit to an oft-overlooked region uphill of Bhabhar belt of Pauri Garhwal was pedantically hosted by a family friend who…
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Category: Travels, Uttarakhand
Tags: Bhulla, Doggada, Duggada, featured, Garhwal, Ghost, Great Himalayan Range, Himalayas, Kaludanda, Khoh, Kotdwar, Kumaon, Lansdowne, NH 119, Pauri, Photography, Regiment, Rifles, Roberts, travel, Uttarakhand
Situated a little more than ten kilometer from the fine spreading of enormous deodars jacketing the touristy Manali, Kothi makes for quite a visible delight. At 2552 m, almost placed at the foot of the mighty Rohtang La, since time…
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Category: Himachal Pradesh, Travels
Tags: Banghal, Beas, Great Himalayan Range, Gulaba, Himachal Pradesh, Kothi, Kullu, Manali, Moorcraft, Palchan, Photography, Rahla, Rohtang, Shakuntla Tibba, Solang, travel, Trebuck, Valley
The following is a page entry from On Road through the trans-Himalayan Region. To read complete travel memoirs and trip report, please visit here. Chapter 17 of 22 Previous Post …
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Category: Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Trans-Himalayas, Travels
Tags: Doda, featured, Great Himalayan Range, Hangshu, Haptal, Haskira, Jammu & Kashmir, Kange, Kargil, Karsha, Ladakh, landscape, Monastery, Mulung, Padum, Pensi La, Phe, Photography, Rangdum, Sani, Stod, Suru, travel, Zanskar, Zaskar