Cebu is one of Phillippines’ most visited province. Located in central Phillippines, i was surprised to know that Cebu used to be Phillippines’ capital in the olden days. Visitors throng this beach city for the many beautiful islands surrounding it. We stayed at the city centre and went ‘island hopping’ […]
After the Pasanjan Falls (Read: Day trip to Pasanjan Falls), the second most popular day trip from Manila is to Taal Lake. Famous for having the smallest active volcano in the world, the T aal Volcano, right in the center, the lake has an island, which has a volcanic crater […]
Ramadan or not, the galis of Jama Masjid in purani Delhi are throbbing with food joints throughout the year! Of course, during Ramadan, the scale gets multiplied many times over… Much like the Mohammaded Ali road of Mumbai (Read: Fasting and Feasting at Bohril Mohalla, Mumbai) and Frazer Town in […]
One of the best day tours from Manila is the trip to the Pagsanjan Falls, or officially the Magdapio Falls. A 318-ft (97 meters) high waterfalls located at the town of Cavinti, it takes about 2.5 – 3 hours from Manila owing of traffic and narrow lanes, going past small […]
The trip to Phillippines was part of my annual offsite from office. The team had planned a 7-day trip to the island country in South-East Asia covering all the major tourist attractions and a fair bit of team outing. Made up of thousands of islands, not all of which are […]
For years, we had only heard about Andhra Bhavan, never been it – me, despite living in Delhi-Gurgaon for almost 4 years a decade ago, and Jayanta, all his growing up years!!! Somehow, the ‘plan’ had never materialised. And we left NCR a decade ago, ignorant of how good or […]
The reason we planned the Uttarakhand roadtrip last winters was for snow in Auli. In fact, we had booked Kashmir initially, but owing to the ongoing disturbances and curfews, we cancelled the Kashmir bookings, and went for Auli instead, thinking that the next best place for snow in the week […]
Auli would be the final climb of our Uttarakhand road-trip, post which, we were to drive back to Gurgaon with a night’s halt in Hrishikesh. Drive from Pokhari to Auli This would be another long arduous drive – about 125 kms that would take, perhaps, a little more than 4 […]